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What Senior Care Costs in the Austin Area

Published Texas median costs for assisted living, memory care, nursing homes, in-home care and adult day care, with the caveats that matter.

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What senior care costs in the Austin area

Short answer

The 2025 CareScout Cost of Care Survey puts the Texas median for assisted living at $5,666 a month and a private nursing home room at $7,604. CareScout does not publish separate Austin figures. Austin generally runs above the state median because of local wage and real estate costs.

These are the published Texas statewide medians from the 2025 CareScout Cost of Care Survey, released March 2, 2026 and based on rates collected July through November 2025, from more than 25,000 provider rates.

Type of careMonthlyAnnualRate
Assisted living, private one-bedroom$5,666$67,992$184 per day
Nursing home, semi-private room$5,627$67,525$185 per day
Nursing home, private room$7,604$91,250$250 per day
In-home non-medical caregiver$5,720$68,640$30 per hour
Private duty nurse at home——$90 per hour, or $150 per visit
Adult day health care$1,950$23,400$90 per day

For contrast, the national medians are $6,200 a month for assisted living, $315 a day for a semi-private nursing room, $355 a day for a private nursing room, $35 an hour for a non-medical caregiver, and $95 a day for adult day care.

Read the nursing home number carefully. The Texas semi-private nursing median of $185 a day is the lowest in the nation and reads as cheaper than Texas assisted living. That figure almost certainly reflects the state's heavily Medicaid-weighted nursing facility market rather than the private-pay rate an Austin family would be quoted. Treat it as a statewide median shaped by Medicaid reimbursement, not a private-pay estimate.
On memory care pricing: CareScout does not survey memory care as a separate category, so no authoritative memory care median exists for Texas or for Austin. Any memory care price you see quoted online is an estimate, not survey data.

Why we do not publish an Austin-specific figure. Austin's rapid growth, competitive labor market, and newer inventory generally push local pricing above the Texas median. We do not publish an Austin-specific dollar figure because no primary source publishes one. Ask each community directly for a current all-in monthly quote. You will find sites quoting a precise Austin number. We could not trace any of them to a primary source, so we do not repeat them.

Source: 2025 CareScout Cost of Care Survey state median tables

Questions Austin families ask

Who helps with guardianship or money management for an Austin senior?

Family Eldercare at 512-483-3580 provides guardianship, money management, in-home counseling, and service coordination for Austin-area seniors and adults with disabilities. For financial exploitation concerns, also report to Adult Protective Services at 1-800-252-5400. The Capital Area ADRC at 855-937-2372 can refer you to legal assistance.

My parent is being discharged from an Austin hospital. How fast do I need to decide?

Often 24 to 72 hours. Ask the hospital case manager for the discharge plan in writing and whether Medicare covers a skilled nursing stay. Meanwhile, call the Capital Area ADRC at 855-937-2372. Verify any facility's license and inspection history through HHSC before signing anything.

Which Austin hospitals handle serious senior emergencies?

Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas, 1500 Red River Street, is the region's Level I trauma center and Dell Medical School teaching hospital. Other major systems are Ascension Seton, St. David's HealthCare with more than 180 sites, and Baylor Scott and White, all with campuses across the metro.

Why is there so much senior housing in Georgetown and Round Rock?

Williamson County skews older than Travis, 13.7 percent aged 65-plus versus 11.6 percent, and grew 23.6 percent since 2020. Sun City Texas in Georgetown, a Del Webb 55-plus community of roughly 7,500 to 8,500 homes on about 5,000 acres, anchors that demand.

How many seniors live in the Austin area?

Approximately 305,000 people aged 65 and older live across Travis, Williamson, and Hays counties, based on Census population estimates combined with survey age percentages. That's roughly 161,000 in Travis, 103,000 in Williamson, and 41,000 in Hays. Hays and Williamson are growing fastest.

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