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Census County Division · Travis County

Northeast Travis

Neighbors
194,031
Active churches
72
Residents per church
~2,690

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 72 active congregations in Northeast Travis today, and about 194,031 neighbors, which is roughly one church for every 2,690 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 Northeast Travis 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 Northeast Travis Census County Division is the fast-growing suburban and exurban corridor on the northeastern edge of Travis County, anchored by the city of Pflugerville and stretching east through the communities of Manor and the western edge of Elgin. Its population is 194,031, making it one of the larger CCDs in the Austin MSA outside of Austin itself. The division carries the metro's suburban growth pattern in one of its most visible forms, with more than three quarters of its housing units built since 2010, a young and family-centered population, and a pace of residential development that has fundamentally reshaped what was farmland and scattered townships a generation ago.

The population is young, diverse, and family-oriented. Median age is 34.6, meaningfully below both the MSA median of 36 and the Travis County median. Households average 2.7 persons per household, in line with the MSA but above the Austin city figure, and 27.6 percent of residents are under the age of eighteen. The CCD contains 71,789 households and 74,921 housing units, with a median owner-occupied home value of $390,400. That figure is nearly twenty percent below the MSA median of $465,000 and is one of the more accessible points of homeownership in Greater Austin, which is a primary reason Northeast Travis has become a destination for families priced out of the central city. Homeownership sits at 66.3 percent, meaningfully higher than the MSA figure of 58.3 percent, and 24 percent of workers work from home.

Race and ethnicity in Northeast Travis make this one of the most demographically diverse CCDs in the region. Hispanic or Latino residents are 37.8 percent of the population, Non-Hispanic White residents are 31.2 percent, Non-Hispanic Black residents are 15.7 percent, Non-Hispanic Asian residents are 10.0 percent, and residents of two or more races are 4.3 percent. No single racial or ethnic group holds a majority. Foreign-born residents are 22.0 percent of the population, well above the MSA figure of 16.2 percent, and the foreign-born community arrives from every continent, with Latin America and Asia as the two largest origin regions and meaningful populations from Africa and Europe as well. The Spanish, Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu, Yoruba, Amharic, and Arabic that can be heard in these neighborhoods are not incidental to the region. They are a defining feature of it.

Economically, Northeast Travis is an educated and affluent suburban region. Median household income is $104,974, a touch above the MSA's $100,431, and per capita income is $44,694. The poverty rate sits at 9.0 percent, slightly below the MSA's 9.8 percent. Bachelor's degree or higher attainment is 43.9 percent, and high school or higher attainment is 91.1 percent. Mean travel time to work is 28.7 minutes, just over a minute longer than the MSA average and a reminder that this is a commuter region where significant portions of the workforce travel south and west to jobs in Austin, Round Rock, and the tech corridors that ring the metro. 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, Northeast Travis is the most racially and ethnically diverse. No single group holds a majority, and the foreign-born share of 22.0 percent is among the highest in the metro. Compared to Austin proper, Northeast Travis is more Hispanic and more Black, meaningfully less White, younger by roughly one year in median age, and significantly higher in homeownership. Compared to Round Rock and Georgetown across the county line, Northeast Travis is more diverse, slightly lower in median home value, and earlier in its suburban maturation. Compared to Cedar Park and Liberty Hill, it is dramatically more diverse, less affluent on a per capita basis, and carries a very different cultural tone shaped by its proximity to east-side Austin and to the farming towns of Manor and Elgin.

The deltas from the MSA tell the story. Hispanic population share is 37.8 percent, up from 32.2 percent at the MSA level. Non-Hispanic White share is 31.2 percent, well below the MSA figure of roughly 49 percent. Non-Hispanic Black share is 15.7 percent, roughly double the MSA baseline. Foreign-born share is 22.0 percent against 16.2 percent. Median home value is $390,400 against $465,000. Homeownership is 66.3 percent against 58.3 percent. Median household income is $104,974, a little above the MSA's $100,431. Three quarters of the housing stock in this CCD has been built since 2010, and a quarter has been built since 2018. The composite portrait is of a CCD functioning as the metro's most ethnically and economically accessible doorway to homeownership, absorbing diverse families from across the region and beyond, and doing so at a pace that has outstripped the Church's capacity to keep up.

Northeast Travis also carries a specific cultural layering that no other CCD in the metro shares in quite the same way, and it does so across two distinct hubs rather than one. Pflugerville is the larger and faster-growing of the two, but Manor is a co-equal center of gravity with a church history that runs deeper still. Manor holds the oldest congregation in the entire CCD, Manor United Methodist Church, tracing to 1854, alongside St Joseph Catholic Church since 1916, and a living present-day breadth that includes Glad Tidings Church, Manor Fellowship, Manor Church of Christ, and the Spanish-language Iglesia En Manor. The region holds a historic Black Baptist heritage, anchored by Saint Mary Missionary Baptist in Pflugerville, founded in 1910, and by the older Manor-area Black Baptist congregations of Union Lee Baptist (1884), Park Spring Baptist (1887), and Little Zion Baptist (1895), continuously present through segregation, integration, and now rapid suburbanization. It holds a deep Lutheran heritage running back to the German and Swedish farming families who settled here, with Immanuel Lutheran in Pflugerville worshipping since 1871, New Sweden Lutheran near Manor since 1876, St. John Evangelical Lutheran since 1878, and Bethlehem Lutheran since 1897. It holds one of the most robust Indian diaspora church clusters in the Austin MSA, with Austin Christian Fellowship of India, Saint Thomas Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church, St. Gregorios Orthodox Church, and Saint Augustine's Western Rite Orthodox Church. It holds a growing Nigerian-origin Pentecostal presence through RCCG Restoration Assembly. And it holds a vibrant Spanish-language and bilingual presence, from Pflugerville Community Church to Ministerios Filadelfia Iglesia Cristiana, Palabra de Dios, and the Spanish-speaking ministries embedded across the CCD. The Church in Northeast Travis is not a single story. It is many stories, gathered around two historic town centers, that must learn to pray together.

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.

  • Hispanic or Latino37.8%
  • Non-Hispanic White31.2%
  • Non-Hispanic Black15.7%
  • Non-Hispanic Asian10.0%
  • Two or more races4.3%
  • Some other race0.9%

Metro share, for comparison

  • Population

    Northeast Travis194,031
    Austin metro2,426,592

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Median age

    Northeast Travis34.6
    Austin metro36.0

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Median household income

    Northeast Travis$104,974
    Austin metro$100,431

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Hispanic or Latino

    Northeast Travis37.8%
    Austin metro32.2%

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Non-Hispanic White

    Northeast Travis31.2%
    Austin metro48.7%

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Active churches

    Northeast Travis72
    Austin metro1,151 (metro total)

    Our church database, 2026-08-30

  • Residents per church

    Northeast Travis~2,690
    Austin metro~2,060 (fifteen divisions)

    Both sources

The others who serve here

You share Northeast Travis with congregations across 12 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.

Northeast Travis has 73 active churches serving approximately 194,031 residents, for a ratio of roughly 1 church per 2,658 residents. As the church landscape of the region has been more fully mapped, and as the historic Manor congregations have been correctly counted within this CCD, that ratio has improved markedly. At roughly one church per 2,658 residents, Northeast Travis is now only modestly below the metro average of one per 2,161, no longer one of the thinnest church-to-population ratios in the region. The need here is therefore less about a raw gospel vacuum than about matching the pace of growth. This is a region whose housing has grown faster than its gospel footprint, and where pastors still describe new subdivisions of hundreds of occupied homes with no congregation planted nearby, even as the older cores of Pflugerville and Manor carry a deep and layered church presence. Many of the 73 congregations carry too little public information to be known well, so the count says more about presence than about health. The landscape also holds traditions outside the historic Christian stream, a quiet but meaningful part of the region that shapes how we pray for gospel clarity in this CCD. We believe the primary missional needs in Northeast Travis are threefold. First, this region needs the continued planting of gospel-preaching churches, undertaken with care and built for the long haul, so that the gospel footprint keeps pace with new housing rather than falling behind it. Second, the existing congregations across the two hubs of Pflugerville and Manor need deeper relational connection to one another, across denominational, ethnic, and language lines that are more varied here than almost anywhere else in the metro. Third, the Spanish-speaking, Indian, African, and historically Black congregations of this CCD need both strengthening in their own right and deeper bonds of shared mission with the English-speaking churches that share their streets.

72 congregations across 12 denominational families.

Pentecostal16 congregations

Baptist15 congregations

Non-Denominational/Independent15 congregations

Lutheran6 congregations

Eastern Orthodox4 congregations

Methodist4 congregations

Church of Christ3 congregations

Episcopal3 congregations

Catholic2 congregations

Other2 congregations

Anglican1 congregation

Presbyterian/Reformed1 congregation

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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

Northeast Travis 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 Northeast Travis, this citywide ecosystem is more lifeline than luxury. With only one faith-forward nonprofit based inside its borders, the churches of Pflugerville and Manor reach outward for much of what a region this diverse requires, drawing on the metro's mercy and justice ministries, its multilingual and campus evangelism networks, and its church-planting movements. The nearest strengths worth tapping are the immigrant-serving and church-planting works clustered across the urban core to the west, while the clearest local gaps are mercy infrastructure, refugee welcome, and youth development rooted here rather than a drive away. A CCD with one active church for every 2,658 residents and no single majority group is a priority for both planting and the kind of multilingual ministry the citywide networks can help seed.

Ministries at work here

Alongside the congregations, 5 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.

Nonprofits1 organization

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Christian Schools4 schools

  • Concordia High School
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    A Lutheran college-preparatory high school serving grades nine through twelve in Pflugerville, opened in 2002 following a vote of the Lutheran School Association of the Greater Austin Area. In its own words it "prepares students to navigate a dynamic world by building positive, life-defining relationships, equipping students to think critically, and rooting their identity in Christ," with weekly chapel services and biblical coursework.

    City
    Pflugerville
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  • CrossLife Christian Academy
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    A Christian school in Pflugerville serving pre-kindergarten through sixth grade and adding a middle school in autumn 2026, accredited through TAAPS and on the TEFA approved list. It is a ministry of CrossLife Church and holds a campus-wide chapel service each Wednesday. In its own words, the school brings 'the truth of Jesus and His saving work to the classroom each day.' Enrollment is about 91.

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    Pflugerville
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  • E3 Christian Academy
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    A Christian school in Pflugerville operated by a local Baptist congregation and sharing its campus on Immanuel Road, describing its purpose as engaging youth, equipping students and empowering leaders, with a stated focus on families who could not otherwise afford Christian education. In its own words, the school believes in 'one eternal, omniscient, and omnipresent God who reveals Himself personally as Father, Son and Holy Spirit' and that 'The Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God.'

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    Pflugerville
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  • Stonehill Christian Academy
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    A Christian school in Pflugerville serving pre-K3 through eighth grade in multi-grade classrooms, in the Greater Austin community for over a decade. In its own words it "provides Christ-centered education that fosters students to grow and develop a closer relationship with Jesus," emphasising "biblical teaching, academic excellence, civic duty, and service," and it frames its curriculum around creation, fall, redemption and re-creation.

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    Pflugerville
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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 Northeast Travis, write info@missionatx.org. A correction and an introduction are equally welcome.

The full Census Reporter profile for Northeast Travis. How this data is gathered and verified.

You have seen the ground. Now stand watch over it. The Northeast Travis prayer guide is written to be prayed out loud with others.

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