Balcones Heights is a city in Bexar County, Texas, United States.

Balcones Heights is an enclave of San Antonio, surrounded entirely by the city, thus some residents and out-of-town visitors erroneously consider it merely a neighborhood of the larger city rather than its own unique community that did so to prevent annexation.

Balcones Heights is located at 29°29′23″N 98°32′53″W / 29.48972°N 98.54806°W / 29.48972; -98.54806 (29.489729, –98.547927),[5] nine miles northwest of downtown San Antonio.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.6 km2), all land.

As of the 2020 United States census, 2,746 people, 1,461 households, and 558 families resided in the city.