Greater Austin

Greater Austin
Metropolitan Statistical Area
Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area
Downtown Austin in September 2018
Interactive map of the Austin Metropolitan Area   City of Austin   Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos MSA
Country	United States
State	Texas
Principal cities	Austin Buda Bastrop Bertram Burnet Dripping Springs Elgin Kyle Taylor Round Rock Cedar Park Georgetown Pflugerville Hutto Jarrell Leander Liberty Hill Lockhart Manor Marble Falls San Marcos Wimberley
Area
• MSA	4,279 sq mi (11,080 km2)
Population  (2020)[1] [2]
• MSA	2,473,275 (26th)
• MSA density	533.62/sq mi (206.03/km2)
GDP [3]
• MSA	$221.1 billion (2021)
Time zone	UTC-6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)

The Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos metropolitan statistical area, or Greater Austin, is a five-county metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Texas, as defined by the Office of Management and Budget.^[4] The metropolitan area is situated in Central Texas on the western edge of the American South and on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, and borders Greater San Antonio to the south.

As of the 2020 U.S. census, the Austin–Round Rock–Georgetown MSA is the 28th-largest metropolitan area in the United States, with a total population of 2,352,426.^[1] The metropolitan area contains the City of Austin—the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 10th-largest city in the United States with a population of 974,447 people.^[5] Austin's largest suburbs are Round Rock, Cedar Park, Georgetown, San Marcos, Leander, and Pflugerville.