This page is the plan for the Austin apartment building dataset behind this site. Our team is building the most complete and accurate record we can of every building in the directory, and we are asking the buildings themselves to confirm their own facts, so each listing gets as close to 100% complete as possible. Below is what the Austin apartment building dataset records, how it is built, what a blank field means, what we never publish, and what all of that means for you while you search.
Key facts about the Austin apartment building dataset
The short version of the Austin apartment building dataset, for anyone who wants the answer without reading the whole page.
- Coverage. 197 Austin apartment buildings with 80,239 apartments between them: the 197 largest apartment buildings in Austin, each with at least 324 homes. The roster is closed at 197.
- What each record holds. Building size, year built, floor count, parking, pet policy, in-unit laundry and building amenities.
- A blank field means the fact is unconfirmed. It does not mean the building lacks that feature.
- Not published. Rent prices, current availability, resident reviews, star ratings, and best-of rankings.
- Changes are dated and listed on the data updates page.
- Browsing is free and no account is needed.
What we are building
A factual record of every building in the directory, currently 197 Austin apartment buildings with 80,239 apartments. For each one, the goal is the facts a renter screens on before touring:
- Building size, floor count and year built
- Parking and pet policy
- In-unit laundry and building amenities
What the Austin apartment building dataset records
Each building is one factual record. The fields are the ones a renter uses to rule a building in or out before spending an evening touring it.
Size and age. Apartment count, floor count and year built tell you what kind of building you are looking at, from an older garden complex to a new lease-up tower, and set expectations for scale before you visit.
Screening rules. Parking and pet policy are the two facts most likely to end a search before it starts. A car or a dog turns a long list of buildings into a short one, so both are recorded as their own fields rather than buried in a paragraph.
Daily living. In-unit laundry and building amenities are what you live with after the move.
Identity. Each building is recorded under its own name and published street address, in one of 16 Austin neighborhood areas. Every building in the directory has an Austin mailing address. A mailing address does not by itself say which city’s limits a property sits inside, so the directory describes its coverage by size and mailing city, not by municipal boundaries.
How the Austin apartment building dataset is built
- Research first. Every listing starts from public sources and the building’s own published information. A building whose basic facts could not be confirmed against a published source was left out rather than guessed at.
- Then the buildings. We are asking each building’s team to confirm its facts and fill the gaps. Nobody knows a building better than the people who run it.
- Then we keep it current. When better information is confirmed, the listing is updated, and dated changes are recorded on our data updates page.
Those three steps repeat. A listing is never finished: it is the best record we have today, and it gets better every time a building confirms a fact or fills a gap.
Our standard for the Austin apartment building dataset
- Nothing made up. If we can’t back a fact, we don’t publish it.
- A blank field means unknown. It does not mean the building lacks that feature. Those blanks are exactly what we are working with the buildings to fill.
- No reviews, ratings or rankings. Just the facts, so you can compare buildings on your own terms.
What a blank field means
A blank field in the Austin apartment building dataset means we have not confirmed that fact for that building. It does not mean the building lacks the feature, and it does not mean the answer is no.
Amenities are the clearest example. The five amenity fields are well filled — pet-friendly is recorded for 196 of the 197 buildings, a gym for 193, and in-unit laundry, on-site parking and air conditioning for 190 each — but 23 listings still lack at least one of them. A blank there means not yet confirmed. Treat a blank as a question for the leasing office rather than an answer, and if it matters to your search, ask before you rule the building out.
Filling those blanks is the main reason we are asking building teams to work with us. Nobody can confirm a pet policy or a parking arrangement faster than the people who run the building.
What the Austin apartment building dataset does not include
Three things are deliberately absent: rent prices, current availability, and resident reviews or ratings.
Rents and current availability are not on this site. Both change faster than they can be kept accurate, and a wrong price is worse than none. For those, check with the building directly.
Resident reviews and star ratings are not here either. A review is one person’s experience: one unit, one leasing agent, one maintenance request, at one moment in time. Two residents of the same building can live there very differently, and a building can change management, staff or policies after a review is written. What we publish is what doesn’t depend on anyone’s opinion: the facts about the building itself, so you can decide what matters to you.
The Austin apartment building dataset also does not rank buildings. There is no best-of ordering and no score. The A–Z index and the neighborhood pages are arranged for browsing, not as a recommendation, and no building’s position on them is a judgement about it.
Checking a building’s record yourself
None of this asks you to take our word for it. A building’s own website and public property records are both ways to check its recorded characteristics independently of any listing site. Where newer information verified from a primary source conflicts with a listing, the newer verified information should be used. Where a public record and the building’s own published figure differ, this directory generally publishes the building’s own figure.
If you find something in the Austin apartment building dataset that is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will fix it. Email chicagoapartmentbuildings@gmail.com with the building name and what needs changing.
What this means for you
Apartment hunting means checking a lot of sites. We want this one to be the place you trust for the building facts, and the listings get more complete every time a building works with us. Start by browsing buildings by neighborhood and amenity, the map, or the A–Z list.
Want the story behind the site? Read About Us.
More on the Austin apartment building dataset itself: the published statistics in the Austin apartment building data summary, the dated change log on the data updates page, and answers to common questions in the Austin apartment hunting FAQ.
Manage a building?
Help us help you. See our open letter to Austin apartment building teams.