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Census County Division · Williamson County

Round Rock and Georgetown

Neighbors
339,811
Active churches
157
Residents per church
~2,160

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 157 active congregations in Round Rock and Georgetown today, and about 339,811 neighbors, which is roughly one church for every 2,160 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 Round Rock and Georgetown 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 Round Rock and Georgetown Census County Division is the family-oriented suburban spine of the Greater Austin MSA's northern edge. Its 184.5 square miles stretch from the I-35 corridor east into Hutto and Taylor country and west toward Leander, anchored by two historic county seats and a string of master-planned communities that have absorbed much of Greater Austin's growth over the past two decades. The CCD holds approximately 339,811 residents at a density of 1,842 people per square mile, making it the second most populous CCD in the Austin MSA after the urban core.

The population is settled and educated. Median age is 37.8, a touch older than the MSA median of 36. Median household income stands at $106,295, roughly six thousand dollars higher than the MSA figure of $100,431. The poverty rate is 6.5 percent, meaningfully lower than the MSA's 9.8 percent. More than half of adults twenty-five and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher (51.9 percent), and 94.5 percent are high school graduates. Mean commute time is 26.3 minutes, which tells the quieter story of a region whose residents increasingly work in Round Rock, Georgetown, and the northern tech corridor rather than commuting all the way downtown.

The racial and ethnic mix is more diverse than the Texas suburban stereotype suggests. Non-Hispanic White residents make up 53.1 percent of the population, Hispanic or Latino residents 23.7 percent, Asian residents 10.3 percent, Black or African American residents 7.5 percent, and those of two or more races 4.4 percent. Foreign-born residents are 16.5 percent of the population, within a fraction of the MSA average of 16.2 percent. The CCD is home to a notable and growing South and East Asian population, concentrated particularly in Round Rock itself, and Hispanic households rooted in multi-generational Central Texas families alongside newer arrivals.

Households are family-shaped. The CCD contains 131,873 households at 2.6 persons per household, with 137,596 housing units and a median owner-occupied home value of $461,300. Geographic mobility over the past year sits at 17.6 percent, showing a region that is still absorbing new arrivals while being more rooted than the urban core. Veterans make up 7.7 percent of the civilian adult population, a higher share than the downtown CCD and a reminder of Fort Cavazos commuters and retirees who have put down roots along the I-35 corridor. All figures in this section come from the ACS 2024 five-year release.

What makes this division distinct

Among the fifteen CCDs in the Greater Austin MSA, Round Rock and Georgetown is the archetypal suburban family region. Compared to Austin CCD, it is older, more settled, more affluent, and less ethnically Hispanic. Compared to Cedar Park and Liberty Hill or Southwest Travis, it is more ethnically diverse and holds a significantly larger and more visible Asian population. Compared to the rural CCDs on the MSA's edges, it is an economic powerhouse with a commuting population that reaches into downtown Austin, the Dell Round Rock campus, Samsung's Taylor semiconductor plant, and the medical corridors on both sides of I-35.

The deltas from the MSA are revealing. Median household income is $106,295 against an MSA figure of $100,431. Poverty is 6.5 percent against the MSA's 9.8 percent, roughly one-third lower. The Hispanic share of the population is 23.7 percent, more than eight percentage points below the MSA's 32.2 percent. The Asian share is 10.3 percent, noticeably higher than the Austin CCD's figure near eight percent. Median owner-occupied value is $461,300, close to the MSA's median property value of $465,000 but distributed across more intact single-family neighborhoods than the MSA number suggests. The CCD is where the Austin area raises its children.

The spiritual picture follows the demographic one. We see a region where faith is socially acceptable, church attendance still carries a quiet normalcy in many neighborhoods, and the challenge is not primarily one of hostility to the gospel but one of nominalism, consumerism, and the slow drift of the second and third generations of church families into what researchers call moralistic therapeutic deism. Churches here must navigate aging congregations that grew up in a different cultural moment, rapidly growing newcomer populations from India, Vietnam, Nigeria, and Mexico, school districts under financial pressure, and a suburban lifestyle that quietly competes with the kingdom for the time and imagination of disciples. We believe the opportunity is a region where the Church is well-positioned to catechize a generation for whole-life discipleship, and we pray that she would be willing to move beyond cultural Christianity into the costly and hopeful work of formation.

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 White53.1%
  • Hispanic or Latino23.7%
  • Non-Hispanic Asian10.3%
  • Non-Hispanic Black7.5%
  • Two or more races4.4%
  • Some other race0.8%

Metro share, for comparison

  • Population

    Round Rock and Georgetown339,811
    Austin metro2,426,592

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Median age

    Round Rock and Georgetown37.8
    Austin metro36.0

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Median household income

    Round Rock and Georgetown$106,295
    Austin metro$100,431

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Non-Hispanic White

    Round Rock and Georgetown53.1%
    Austin metro48.7%

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Hispanic or Latino

    Round Rock and Georgetown23.7%
    Austin metro32.2%

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Active churches

    Round Rock and Georgetown157
    Austin metro1,151 (metro total)

    Our church database, 2026-08-30

  • Residents per church

    Round Rock and Georgetown~2,160
    Austin metro~2,060 (fifteen divisions)

    Both sources

The others who serve here

You share Round Rock and Georgetown with congregations across 13 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.

Round Rock and Georgetown has 145 active churches serving approximately 339,811 residents, a ratio of roughly one church per 2,344 people. That places the CCD near the metro average and only modestly stronger than the Austin urban core. The number is more measured than earlier database snapshots suggested, because a July 2026 reassignment of church records to their correct geographies moved a number of congregations that had been counted here into neighboring divisions such as Cedar Park and Liberty Hill, leaving a leaner and more accurate read of church presence in this CCD. Density alone is not the whole story. Many of the 145 congregations carry too little public information to be known well, so the count says more about presence than about health. We believe the primary needs in this CCD are twofold. First, established congregations across every tradition need renewal, revitalization, and missional depth, because a region saturated with church signage is not the same as a region saturated with disciples. Second, targeted planting is needed in the newest subdivisions of Hutto and the Georgetown northside, where housing is outpacing church presence and where the families moving in are reaching for a community the Spirit has already been preparing to meet them.

157 congregations across 13 denominational families.

Non-Denominational/Independent71 congregations

Baptist21 congregations

Pentecostal15 congregations

Methodist11 congregations

Lutheran9 congregations

Other7 congregations

Presbyterian/Reformed6 congregations

Church of Christ5 congregations

Catholic4 congregations

Episcopal3 congregations

Anglican2 congregations

Disciples of Christ2 congregations

Eastern Orthodox1 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

Round Rock and Georgetown 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 Round Rock and Georgetown, this citywide ecosystem is a resource within easy reach. This is a well-resourced suburban CCD whose own strengths run toward family ministry, foster care, and pregnancy care, and it sits close enough to the metro's church networks, campus ministries, and foundations to draw on them readily. The gaps worth praying toward are the callings that are thinner here, particularly sustained intercession and faith-and-work ministry, where the congregations of this region 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, 47 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.

Nonprofits34 organizations

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Christian Schools11 schools

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Ecosystem2 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 Round Rock and Georgetown, write info@missionatx.org. A correction and an introduction are equally welcome.

The full Census Reporter profile for Round Rock and Georgetown. How this data is gathered and verified.

You have seen the ground. Now stand watch over it. The Round Rock and Georgetown prayer guide is written to be prayed out loud with others.

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