Star Ranch

The community

Star Ranch is Hutto’s established flagship: a roughly 1,000-acre master plan built around The Golf Club at Star Ranch, an 18-hole public course, with homes going in since the early 2000s. That age is the story. Where most of Hutto’s communities are selling futures — amenities on renderings, trees in tubes — Star Ranch is finished goods: operating golf club, built pools and parks, and streets where you can see exactly what the neighborhood became.

It’s also why we list it as final phases. Most builder sections have closed out over the years — Meritage, Pacesetter, Clark Wilson and others came and went — and the remaining new construction is concentrated in the Villas at Star Ranch section, planned at 136 homes with its own park and pool, some sites fronting the course. Rosters rotate by phase and availability changes monthly; verify what’s actually left before you set expectations.

The homes

Remaining new-build product runs roughly 1,340–2,700 square feet on 40- to 60-foot lots, one and two stories, with combined new-build and listing pricing generally in the $250s–$400s (public listing and builder-published data, July 2026 — verify current). The larger opportunity may be resale: twenty years of build-out means a deep stock of 1,400–3,000+ square-foot homes across every vintage, including golf-course frontage, often at better price-per-foot than new. If you’re set on new construction with more selection, Emory Crossing a few minutes north carries Hutto’s current building wave.

Location, schools, and the drive

Star Ranch is zoned to Hutto ISD — verify campus assignments by address, as this fast-growth district redraws boundaries as schools open. Location is the community’s quiet strength: it sits at Hutto’s southwest corner near SH-130 and US-79, which makes it one of the best-connected addresses in town. Round Rock employers run 15–20 minutes, Samsung’s Taylor campus about 15–20 east, Tesla and the airport 30–40 south via SH-130’s toll lanes. Downtown Austin stays a 35–50 minute reality. On taxes, the MUD picture here is more favorable than Hutto’s newest communities — older sections have retired part of their debt — but rates still vary by section, so we pull the actual current rate for any address you’re considering.