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Census County Division · Williamson County

Cedar Park and Liberty Hill

Neighbors
182,962
Active churches
94
Residents per church
~1,950

2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024 · Our church database, 2026-08-30

If you pastor here, pray here, or have given your years to this place, this page is for you.

We count 94 active congregations in Cedar Park and Liberty Hill today, and about 182,962 neighbors, which is roughly one church for every 1,950 of them. That is not a scorecard. It is a description of the ground you share, and of how much of it none of you can reach alone.

Start by praying

Before the data, before the strategy, pray. We wrote the Cedar Park and Liberty Hill prayer guide to be prayed out loud with two or three others, on a rhythm, across whatever lines usually keep you apart. Bring the leaders you already know. Invite one you do not.

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The narrative on this page is from the July 2026 edition. Its figures were fixed when it was written, so they can differ from the charts and lists around it, which rebuild monthly from the live database.

Portrait

The Cedar Park and Liberty Hill Census County Division is the western spine of Williamson County, a 270-square-mile region that sweeps from the established tech suburbs of Cedar Park and Leander at the 183A corridor into the rapidly expanding exurban ranchland around Liberty Hill. Its population is 182,962, the third largest of the fifteen CCDs in Greater Austin after Austin itself and Round Rock and Georgetown. The CCD contains the cities of Cedar Park, Leander, and Liberty Hill, along with the master-planned communities of Bella Vista, Santa Rita Ranch, Travisso, and Crystal Falls, and the older rural settlements that are now being absorbed by the suburban edge moving west from Highway 183.

The population is affluent, highly educated, and heavily family-oriented. Median age is 36.2, close to the MSA median of 36. Median household income is $122,440, among the highest of any CCD in the metro and roughly 22 percent above the MSA's $100,431. The educational profile is even more striking, with 52.24 percent of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher, a figure that sits well above the Williamson County average of 48.4 percent and among the top two or three CCDs in the entire Austin MSA. The housing stock reflects the speed of this region's growth. A majority of housing units in the CCD have been built since 2010, with the newest construction concentrated in Liberty Hill and the far western edge of Leander. Owner-occupied homes are the dominant tenure, and household sizes run slightly larger than the MSA baseline, consistent with a CCD where school-age children are a major part of the population story.

Race and ethnicity in Cedar Park and Liberty Hill are more diverse than the suburban affluence alone would suggest. Non-Hispanic White residents are 52.7 percent of the population, Hispanic or Latino residents are 22.1 percent, Non-Hispanic Asian residents are 14.3 percent, Non-Hispanic Black residents are 5.6 percent, and residents of two or more races are 4.2 percent. The 14.3 percent Asian share is one of the highest of any CCD in the Austin MSA and is the single most distinctive piece of this region's demographic profile. Foreign-born residents are 19.19 percent of the population, above the MSA's 16.2 percent, and roughly 54.84 percent of the foreign-born population in this CCD originated in Asia. The immigration story of this region is disproportionately an Asian immigration story, with strong Indian, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Filipino presences that together shape the schools, the businesses, and the churches of the 183A corridor.

Economically, Cedar Park and Liberty Hill is a tech-corridor commuter CCD that is also increasingly a work-from-home CCD. Mean travel time to work is in line with the MSA average, but 28.67 percent of the region's workers now work from home, one of the highest rates in the metro. The workforce is concentrated in professional, scientific, and technical services, educational services, healthcare, and finance. Apple, Samsung, Dell, Oracle, Visa, and the broader semiconductor corridor of North Austin and East Williamson are the primary employers of residents here. The poverty rate is well below the MSA average. All figures in this section are from the 2024 five-year ACS release.

What makes this division distinct

Among the fifteen CCDs in the Greater Austin MSA, Cedar Park and Liberty Hill is the most affluent, the most educated, and the most Asian of the three Williamson County divisions. Compared to Round Rock and Georgetown, it is somewhat more affluent per household, markedly more educated, and considerably more Asian in its immigrant composition. Compared to Jarrell, it is older, substantially more affluent, much more educated, and an order of magnitude more dense. Compared to its Austin MSA peers, it ranks in the top quartile for income, the top quartile for education, and the top quartile for foreign-born population drawn predominantly from Asia rather than from Latin America.

The deltas from the MSA tell the story. Median household income is $122,440 against the MSA's $100,431. Bachelor's degree attainment is 52.24 percent against the MSA's 45 percent. The Non-Hispanic Asian share is 14.3 percent, several times the MSA's 7 percent. The remote work rate is 28.67 percent, well above the MSA baseline. And the housing stock has been built overwhelmingly in the past fifteen years. The composite portrait is of a CCD functioning as a destination for highly educated, mid-career, globally connected households who can pay for suburban school districts and whose daily lives blur the lines between North Austin, a home office, a school pickup, and a weekend on Lake Travis.

Cedar Park and Liberty Hill also carries a specific cultural memory that few other CCDs in the metro share. The western edge of the CCD contains some of the oldest continuously occupied land in Williamson County, with Cross Tracks Church near Liberty Hill tracing its roots to 1854, predating most of the region's cities by a full generation. In the middle of the CCD, the 183A tollway and the Cedar Park Center form a daily rhythm for hundreds of thousands of commuters and sports fans. And inside the commercial heart of Cedar Park, a single address, 1150 S Bell Blvd, houses the Christian Resource Center, an unusual concentration of roughly ten partner ministries in one building that serves as a kind of de facto ministry campus for this region. The historic sanctuaries of Liberty Hill, the tollway corridor of Cedar Park and Leander, and the ministry hub on Bell Boulevard are the three geographic anchors of the spiritual life of this CCD.

The people you are praying for

These are your neighbors, described as honestly as public data allows. Nothing here tells you what to do about them. It tells you who they are, so your prayers can be specific.

  • Non-Hispanic White52.7%
  • Hispanic or Latino22.1%
  • Non-Hispanic Asian14.3%
  • Non-Hispanic Black5.6%
  • Two or more races4.6%
  • Some other race0.5%

Metro share, for comparison

  • Population

    Cedar Park and Liberty Hill182,962
    Austin metro2,426,592

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Median age

    Cedar Park and Liberty Hill36.2
    Austin metro36.0

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Median household income

    Cedar Park and Liberty Hill$122,440
    Austin metro$100,431

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Non-Hispanic White

    Cedar Park and Liberty Hill52.7%
    Austin metro48.7%

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Hispanic or Latino

    Cedar Park and Liberty Hill22.1%
    Austin metro32.2%

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Active churches

    Cedar Park and Liberty Hill94
    Austin metro1,151 (metro total)

    Our church database, 2026-08-30

  • Residents per church

    Cedar Park and Liberty Hill~1,950
    Austin metro~2,060 (fifteen divisions)

    Both sources

The others who serve here

You share Cedar Park and Liberty Hill with congregations across 11 denominational families. Some of them you know. Most of them you probably do not, and that is the ordinary condition of a city, not a failure. We put the list here so you can start.

Drawing the fifteen divisions

Church density and the mission need

Research on gospel saturation suggests that church density is a meaningful proxy for a region's spiritual health. In his book Center Church, Tim Keller notes that a region with one church per 10,000 people sees roughly 1 percent of residents attending regularly. At one church per 1,000 people, that figure rises to 15 to 20 percent, and at one per 500, more than 40 percent attend.

These numbers matter because of what tends to happen in populations. One rough model of this, the diffusion of innovation, describes a kind of tipping point. An idea often struggles to be accepted until somewhere around 16 percent of a population has taken it up, after which it can begin to sustain and spread on its own. The analogy to the gospel is inexact, and the human heart is not a product to be adopted, so we hold the model loosely. But the concept is worth consideration and used often in gospel movements around the world. A region where regular gospel engagement sits far below that threshold may simply lack the critical mass for a movement to take hold, while a region approaching it has the numeric reality from which one can grow. When compared with Keller's ratios, church density becomes a rough way of asking whether a region sits above or below that line, and gives us a guide to how we can pray.

Cedar Park and Liberty Hill has 94 active churches serving approximately 182,962 residents, for a ratio of roughly one church per 1,946 residents. That ratio sits slightly stronger than the metro average of roughly one church per 2,161 residents, which sounds reassuring until the growth curve is laid over it. For a region this affluent and this fast-growing, the per-capita density is thinner than the wealth suggests, and it is thinning further month by month as subdivisions deliver new households in Liberty Hill and far-west Leander faster than new churches can be planted to receive them. The composition of the 94 congregations tells a second story. Many of the 94 churches carry too little public information to be known well, a reflection of the newer non-denominational plants and smaller ethnic fellowships along the 183A corridor that the research has not yet been able to read with confidence. The primary needs in this CCD are threefold. First, the housing frontier in Liberty Hill and the master-planned communities of far-west Leander is growing faster than the church and urgently needs both new plants and sending churches willing to release leaders and finances. Second, the large Asian population in this CCD is poorly served by the current church footprint, and ministries in Indian, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Filipino contexts are a strategic priority for the region. Third, the tech-corridor culture of this CCD rewards autonomy, accomplishment, and self-sufficiency in ways that are spiritually corrosive over time, and the church here needs a confident, gospel-centered formation that can hold affluent households in a posture of dependence on Christ rather than a posture of self-made success.

94 congregations across 11 denominational families.

Non-Denominational/Independent48 congregations

Baptist11 congregations

Pentecostal9 congregations

Methodist5 congregations

Other5 congregations

Church of Christ4 congregations

Lutheran4 congregations

Eastern Orthodox3 congregations

Catholic2 congregations

Presbyterian/Reformed2 congregations

Episcopal1 congregation

Serve at a congregation we have missed? Tell us, and we will review and add it.

A kingdom ecosystem

And yet the church was never meant to carry the whole work alone, and the nonprofits and Christian institutions named just above are evidence of it. A region is rarely reached by strong congregations acting in isolation. The same Tim Keller whose density research framed the mission need earlier in this guide also described, in Center Church, what he called a gospel ecosystem, the observation that lasting gospel movements grow not from isolated churches but from a whole interdependent web of gospel work in which churches and the ministries around them each supply something the others need. At the center of that ecosystem are two movements the church herself carries, the planting of new congregations and the renewal of existing ones. Around them grows a wider set of callings that no single church can hold on its own: intercession that keeps the whole work dependent on God, evangelism to those the church has not yet reached, mercy and justice among the poor and vulnerable, faith and work that sends disciples into every corner of the economy, Christian institutions like schools that form the next generation, and leadership development that raises up the pastors and planters still to come.

None of this becomes a movement, though, until the leaders carrying these callings actually know and trust one another. The connective tissue of a kingdom ecosystem is relational, pastors and ministry leaders across traditions who pray together, share what they are learning, and labor toward a common mission rather than guarding their own corner. Where that trust is real, the parts begin to feed one another, and where it is absent, even well-resourced ministries work at cross purposes. Unity here is not a program to be launched but the fruit of a shared mission held long enough for friendship to grow.

The wider Austin kingdom ecosystem

Cedar Park and Liberty Hill does not carry the whole mission alone. Around every congregation in this CCD sits a citywide gospel ecosystem that any church here can draw on, organized below by the same Keller categories. These are metro-wide ministries whose service area is the region rather than a single division, so the names that follow are illustrative highlights rather than a full directory.

Church networks knit congregations together across the metro, among them Christ Together Greater Austin, the Austin Baptist Association, the Church Ambassador Network of Texas, and the Diocese of Austin. Intercessory ministries keep the whole work dependent on God, including the House of Intercession, HOPE Prayer Ministry, and the Lake Travis Prayer Room. Specialized evangelism is the largest category in the metro and reaches particular fields, with campus and athletic ministries like Cru City Austin, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes across every county, Campus Renewal Ministries, and Launch Global. Justice and mercy ministries carry the poor and vulnerable, among them World Relief, Habitat for Humanity Austin, Unbound Now, and Texas Alliance for Life. Faith and work ministries send disciples into the economy, including the Faith and Work Movement, Faith Driven Entrepreneurs, the National Christian Foundation Austin, and C12 Central Texas. Christian institutions steward long-term formation, such as the Texas Methodist Foundation. And leadership development raises up the next generation of pastors and planters, through the Colson Fellows Program, New Canaan Society Austin, PastorServe, Mission Increase, and the Greater Austin Mission Society.

For Cedar Park and Liberty Hill, this citywide ecosystem is a resource well within reach. This is a fast-growing suburban CCD whose own strengths run toward international missions and family ministry, and it sits close to the metro's church networks, foundations, and campus ministries. The gaps worth praying toward are the callings that are thinner here, particularly sustained intercession and mercy and justice ministry, where the congregations along the 183A corridor will be strengthened by leaning into the wider Austin networks rather than trying to build every capacity alone.

Ministries at work here

Alongside the congregations, 37 organizations serve this division: nonprofits, Christian schools, and the wider ecosystem of ministries. On the map above they are the open rings; the filled dots are churches.

Nonprofits26 organizations

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Christian Schools7 schools

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Ecosystem4 organizations

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From our database as of 2026-08-30. These records have not yet been through the full verification pass the congregations have, so where a record is marked location unverified, the coordinate on file is a placeholder several records share, and we have declined to put a pin on it rather than put it in the wrong place.

Every record we publish for this division, churches and ministries together, in one list.

If you want to go further

We are the Greater Austin Mission Society, and we exist to help leaders across this metro find one another. If something on this page is wrong, or if you want to meet the others praying for Cedar Park and Liberty Hill, write info@missionatx.org. A correction and an introduction are equally welcome.

The full Census Reporter profile for Cedar Park and Liberty Hill. How this data is gathered and verified.

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