Do most Leander households own or rent?

In short

• About 73 of every 100 Leander households own their home. That is more than in the county, Cedar Park or Round Rock. Georgetown is close enough that the gap may not be real.¹²
• The typical owner’s home was worth about $506,000. Owners gave that value themselves in a survey.¹
• The typical rent was about $1,940 a month. The Census counts rent plus the utilities the renter pays.¹

Numbers marked “our math” are our estimates, not official figures. The notes show the inputs and the steps.

How it works

• These numbers come from a Census survey. It asks a sample of homes over five years, 2020 to 2024.¹
• Every number has a margin of error. Small gaps between cities may not be real.¹
• Home value is what owners think their home would sell for. It is not the tax appraisal.¹

What the numbers show

Place	Owners (our math)	Typical home value	Typical rent
Leander	73%	$506,200 (±$19,743)	$1,939 (±$92)
Cedar Park	67%	$513,600 (±$21,126)	$1,846 (±$55)
Georgetown	69%	$429,100 (±$7,102)	$1,795 (±$43)
Round Rock	56%	$418,600 (±$12,497)	$1,763 (±$38)
Williamson County	66%	$447,000 (±$3,593)	$1,796 (±$17)

Source: Census Bureau survey, 2020-2024.¹

• Leander and Cedar Park home values are too close to call. Their margins of error overlap.¹
• Leander’s rent is a bit higher than the county’s. The gap is bigger than the margins of error.¹

The other side

• Five years of answers are pooled. So the values may not match today’s prices.¹
• The survey does not say why the owner share differs. This page does not try to explain it.
• Owning does not mean the home is paid off. The survey splits owners with and without a loan in other tables.¹

What you can do or watch next

• See leander income compared for incomes in the same cities.
• Watch for the next Census five-year release, usually in December.

Questions to ask

• Does the city track why the owner share differs from nearby cities?
• Where does the city post its own housing data?

Changes to this page

• Nov. 2, 2026: Added questions to ask.
• Nov. 2, 2026: We narrowed the comparison of owner shares to what the margins of error support and removed two lines the survey does not support.

Footnotes

1. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 5-year estimates 2020-2024, table B25003 (tenure), table B25077 (median value, owner-occupied homes) and table B25064 (median gross rent). Margins of error are at 90% confidence. Owners (our math) = owner-occupied ÷ occupied homes: Leander 19,323 ÷ 26,326 = 73.4% (±704 owners); Cedar Park 19,247 ÷ 28,863 = 66.7%; Georgetown 24,586 ÷ 35,400 = 69.5%; Round Rock 27,016 ÷ 48,647 = 55.5%; Williamson County 167,540 ÷ 252,323 = 66.4%. Retrieved from Census Reporter, a free site that republishes Census tables. Cross-checked against Census QuickFacts for Leander and Williamson County (owner share, home value, rent); values match. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹

2. Our math, from the same table’s margins of error: Leander owners 19,323 ± 704 of 26,326 homes is about 70.7% to 76.1%; Georgetown 24,586 ± 827 of 35,400 is about 67.1% to 71.8%. The ranges overlap. Cedar Park’s top end (19,247 + 730 of 28,863, about 69.2%) is below Leander’s low end. This simple check ignores the margin on the number of homes. ↩