Texas · Off-grid & homestead potential
Hays County is a marginal bolthole (46/100). Its strengths are almost no federal land or extraction and middling conditions for growing food. The trade-offs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and 23 mi from the nearest metro.
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Hays County is a marginal bolthole (46/100). Its strengths: almost no federal land or extraction and middling conditions for growing food. Watch-outs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and 23 mi from the nearest metro.
Land in Hays County runs about $11,177 per acre, based on the latest county data.
Hays County gets about 35.1" of rain a year, with severe drought in roughly 29.4% of years.
The nearest major metro is about 23 miles away, and population density is 414.4 people per square mile.