Common questions about Austin’s largest apartment buildings, answered from this directory’s own records — 197 properties and 80,239 apartment homes across 16 neighborhoods. Every figure below is read from the same fields that appear on each building’s page.
How many large apartment buildings are there in Austin?
This directory covers 197 of them, holding 80,239 apartment homes between them. Inclusion is by scale rather than by brand or price: the smallest property listed has 324 homes and the largest has 1,072. Austin has a great many smaller apartment communities, and they are not tracked here.
What is the largest apartment building in Austin?
By number of homes, Monterey Ranch in Oak Hill — 1,072 apartments, completed in 1995. It stands three storeys tall, so it is a sprawling low-rise complex rather than a tower. That is the usual shape of a very large Austin apartment property.
What is the tallest apartment building in Austin?
Waterline, downtown, at 74 floors, completed in 2026 — the tallest residential building in this directory. It holds 352 homes, roughly a third of what Monterey Ranch holds. Height and size are separate questions in Austin, and they rarely point at the same building.
Are Austin’s largest apartment buildings high-rises?
Mostly not. Of the 176 properties here with a confirmed floor count, 127 are four storeys or fewer. Only 13 reach ten floors or more, and nine of those rise above thirty. The pattern is a large suburban stock of low-rise garden complexes, with a small cluster of genuine high-rises downtown.
Which Austin neighborhood has the most large apartment buildings?
Tech Ridge, in far north Austin, with 25 properties holding 9,939 homes. The Domain is second at 21 properties and 9,073 homes. West Campus has the fewest at 2. The directory sorts all 197 buildings into 16 neighborhoods, and the counts are uneven because real neighborhoods are uneven.
How many apartments does a large Austin building typically have?
The median is 375 homes and the average is 407. The gap between those two numbers is the tell: most properties sit near the lower end of the 324 to 1,072 range, and a small number of very large complexes pull the average up.
How old are Austin’s large apartment buildings?
They span 1971 to 2027, with a median completion year of 2014 — half of them were finished in roughly the last decade. 59 predate 2000 and 61 were completed in 2020 or later. One property, MAA South Lamar, was built in two phases, in 2013 and 2017.
What is the newest large apartment building in Austin?
Six carry a 2026 completion year: Augustine, The Watson, Waterline, Alexan St. Elmo, Wixby House and Odell. One entry, AMLI Park Central in Mueller at 650 homes, carries 2027, making it the only building here whose completion year is still ahead.
Do Austin’s large apartment buildings allow pets?
196 of the 197 are confirmed pet-friendly. On the other amenities tracked here: 193 have a gym or fitness center, 189 have in-unit laundry, 187 confirm air conditioning and 179 have parking within the building. A blank amenity on a building’s page means the fact was not confirmed — it never means no.
Where does this data come from, and how is it checked?
Every unit count, completion year, floor count, address, phone number and website is recorded from a published source and checked building by building. Anything that could not be confirmed is left blank rather than estimated, which is why 21 of the 197 carry no floor count. A blank field means not confirmed. It never means zero and it never means none.
Can I rent an apartment or book a tour through this site?
No. This is a reference directory, not a listings feed. It does not sell leases, take referral fees, or rank buildings against one another. Each building’s page carries its own phone number (on 193 of 197) and its own website (on 195 of 197) so you can contact the property directly.
Why are some Austin apartment buildings missing?
The roster is closed at 197 and is deliberately incomplete. A few large properties were left out because their basic facts — unit counts, completion dates, or reliable coordinates — could not be confirmed against a published source. The rule for this directory is to skip a building rather than guess at it.
Every building in the directory is listed on the A–Z index, and each one has a page of its own with its unit count, completion year, floor count, address, phone and website.