Oct 20, 2025 | 2:30 pm
While other Texas residents have reason to feel blue about a new ranking of the greenest cities in the U.S., Austinites can take some deep breaths: The Capital City is the greenest city in Texas for 2025.
Among the country’s 100 largest cities based on population, Austin ranks 26th across 28 key indicators of “green” living in a new study from personal finance website WalletHub. That’s enough to top the charts in Texas. Austin also ranked No. 26 in 2024.
Contrast Austin’s high placement with Houston, which ranks 99th out of 100, one place lower than last year. (The only city with a lower ranking in 2025 is Glendale, Arizona.)…