The municipality comprises the three villages (number of inhabitants as of January 1, 2015) Hauskirchen is surrounded of the communities Großkrut, Neusiedl an der Zaya, Wilfersdorf and Zistersdorf.

An early written records tells of the construction of a church and of the establishment of a parish in 1150 by Hugo von Liechtenstein.

In 1723, Baron Dermot Kavanagh († 1739) of Ballyane bought the manor of Hauskirchen from Prince Joseph von Liechtenstein.

[3][4] Kavanagh and his wife Felicitas are commemorated in Hauskirchen by a wall tablet in the parish church of St Lawrence.

In the council is after the local elections in Lower Austria 2015 the following mandate distribution (total of 19 seats):