I have a fair Texas map which still needs a lot of work--it's done but I think I need to play around with the lines a lot more--but one thing I've noticed is that it's possible to draw a pretty reasonable district just in the city of Austin:
You could probably draw a more compact version which hews less closely to Austin's goofy municipal lines.
My opinion is that since the part of Travis County that lies above the Colorado River fits exactly in one district, that is a very obvious district.
By the way, how much Democratic would your compact Austin district be? I imagine something like Clinton+60?
