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12 Republican2 Independent53 Unknown affiliation 60 Democratic12 Republican2 Independent53 Unknown affiliation Kirk Watson (Democratic) has been Mayor of Austin since 6 Jan 2023. The unemployment rate stood at 3.8% of the labour force in Aug 2026, 1.0 percentage point higher than when Kirk Watson took office in January 2023; Texas's moved +0.3 percentage points over the same months. On the fall in violent crime Austin is 27th of the 106 cities, on the fall in unemployment 90th of 117. Over the same months Texas's average hourly pay rose 1.8% a year; Austin's edged up 0.3%; the gap was widest in Dec 2024, −0.5% against +5.3%. Typical home value is down 19.6% since day zero (5.6% a year).
The president, governors and mayors of the United States
The president
- United States Donald Trump
Governors
- Alabama Kay Ivey
- Alaska Mike J. Dunleavy
- Arizona Katie Hobbs
- Arkansas Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- California Gavin Newsom
- Colorado Jared Polis
- Connecticut Ned Lamont
- Delaware Matt Meyer
- District of Columbia Muriel Bowser
- Florida Ron DeSantis
- Georgia Brian Kemp
- Hawaii Josh Green
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- Illinois JB Pritzker
- Indiana Mike Braun
- Iowa Kim Reynolds
- Kansas Laura Kelly
- Kentucky Andy Beshear
- Louisiana Jeff Landry
- Maine Janet T. Mills
- Maryland Wes Moore
- Massachusetts Maura Healey
- Michigan Gretchen Whitmer
- Minnesota Tim Walz
- Mississippi Tate Reeves
- Missouri Mike Kehoe
- Montana Greg Gianforte
- Nebraska Jim Pillen
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- New Hampshire Kelly Ayotte
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- Oregon Tina Kotek
- Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro
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- Tennessee Bill Lee
- Texas Greg Abbott
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- Virginia Abigail Spanberger
- Washington Bob Ferguson
- West Virginia Patrick Morrisey
- Wisconsin Tony Evers
- Wyoming Mark Gordon
Mayors in Texas
- Arlington Jim Ross
- Austin Kirk Watson
- Corpus Christi Paulette Guajardo
- Dallas Eric Johnson
- El Paso Renard Johnson
- Fort Worth Mattie Parker
- Frisco Jeff Cheney
- Garland Dylan Hedrick
- Grand Prairie Ron Jensen
- Houston John Whitmire
- Irving Rick Stopfer
- Laredo Victor Treviño
- Lubbock Tray Payne
- McKinney George Fuller
- Plano John Muns
- San Antonio Gina Ortiz Jones
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