Goodnight Ranch

The community

Goodnight Ranch is a 700-acre community in Southeast Austin off East Slaughter Lane, built on former ranch land and planned as a mixed-density neighborhood: single-family homes, townhomes, apartments, school sites, and eventually a town-center strip. It’s been building steadily for years, and new sections — including David Weekley’s Twilight at Goodnight Ranch — opened for sales into 2026, so this is an active community, not a closeout. Pools, parks, and pond-loop trails are built; an Austin ISD elementary sits at the neighborhood’s edge; and the community includes a long-running income-qualified housing program alongside market-rate homes.

The homes

Current market-rate product centers on production homes from roughly 1,700 to 2,500 sq ft, with David Weekley’s published pricing in July 2026 running from about $410K to $509K on 40 ft and smaller lots. M/I Homes and Empire have also built here, and townhome product has come from additional builders — rosters rotate by phase, so verify who’s selling in the section you care about. Lot reality: compact, alley-loaded in places, homes close together, porches doing the front-yard work. It’s a deliberately denser, more walkable layout than a standard suburb.

Location, schools, and the drive

The Austin ISD zoning — Blazier Elementary is adjacent, with Akins Early College High School nearby — is a genuine distinguisher, since almost every competing new community sits in Del Valle, Hays, or Manor ISD; verify current assignments. The other quiet advantage is tax structure: no MUD, so the effective rate runs meaningfully below most new-construction alternatives. Drives are short for this price point — about 15 minutes to the airport, 20 to Tesla, 20–25 to downtown — and Southpark Meadows handles retail five minutes west. See our East Austin guide for the corridor’s bigger picture, and cross-shop Easton Park if amenity programming outranks school district on your list.

Builders active here

David Weekley Homes, M/I Homes, Empire Communities — rosters rotate by phase and release, so treat this as a snapshot (July 2026). We track current releases, inventory homes, and which builders are motivated in any given month.