Analyst notes

• —Long-term temperature and precipitation values are calculated from daily Open-Meteo observations for 2016-2025; they are a recent 10-year profile rather than a 30-year regulatory climate normal.
• —The overall cost index is the official BEA 2024 state Regional Price Parity (U.S. = 100); it is broader than the ZIP-level housing benchmark.
• —BEA publishes exact broad categories for goods, housing, utilities and other services. The food card uses the goods price signal; transportation and healthcare use the broader other-services signal and are labeled as category proxies rather than standalone local indexes.
• —Lifestyle fallback counts include verified OpenStreetMap matches within 4 km. They are conservative lower-bound signals because the public place search caps results; recently opened or differently named venues may be missing.
• —Crime rates use Austin Police Department's citywide FBI UCR service population for 2025; the FBI does not publish comparable ZIP-level rates.
• —Recent headlines were selected from sentence-level location matches in the GDELT global news index for Austin, Texas, United States over the last 72 hours; inclusion reflects relevance, not endorsement.