West Lake Hills, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 310 m880 ft 270 m820 ft 250 m690 ft 210 m560 ft 170 m490 ft 150 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
West Lake Hills sits at about 730 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
730 ft 225 m
most residents: 640–870 ft
Lowest
490 ft 150 m
on the east side
Highest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the west side
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside city limits
West Lake Hills spans about 520 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 730 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 490 ft150 m |
| Town center USGS map point for West Lake Hills | 790 ft240 m |
| Airport (AUS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.1 mi southeast of the city limits | 542 ft165 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Travis County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 3,208 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.6 sq mi
- Density
- 893 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 30.2980° N, 97.8020° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Colorado River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Austin-bergstrom International (AUS) 542 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 78746
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bee Cave1,020 ft
- Lost Creek870 ft
- Barton Creek790 ft
- Steiner Ranch770 ft
- Shady Hollow750 ft
- West Lake Hills730 ft
- Sunset Valley690 ft
- Manchaca680 ft
- Austin670 ft
- San Leanna670 ft
- Rollingwood600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas597th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Travis County16th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dittmar Hill1,070 ft
- Cat Mountain930 ft
- Mount Larson910 ft
- Mount Barker870 ft
- Mount Bonnell870 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.