Census County Division · Hays County
San Marcos
- Neighbors
- 77,080
- Active churches
- 54
- Residents per church
- ~1,430
About 1,430 residents per church here. Across the fifteen divisions it is about 1,980.
2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024 · Our church database, 2026-10-10
If you pastor here, pray here, or have given your years to this place, this page is for you.
We count 54 active congregations in San Marcos today, and about 77,080 neighbors, which is roughly one church for every 1,430 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.
The others who serve here
You share San Marcos 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 churches of San Marcos
54 congregations across 12 denominational families.
- 2.42 ChurchNon-Denominational/IndependentSan MarcosWebsiteSuggest a correction
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2.42 Church is a non-denominational congregation in San Marcos, named for Acts 2:42, serving its neighbors at Texas State University and across the city. In its own words, it provides 'a community where people who have been failed by the religious community can feel at home,' affirms the Nicene Creed, and holds that 'there are multiple faithful ways to interpret the Bible' on questions of gender and sexuality.
- Abundant Life Christian Church - San MarcosNon-Denominational/IndependentSan MarcosFounded 1993WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Abundant Life Christian Church is a non-denominational congregation in San Marcos, founded in 1993, gathering on Uhland Road for Sunday morning services with midweek prayer and Bible study. It describes its purpose as equipping, serving, and preparing God's people 'to be examples of the Abundant Life.'
- Awaken ChurchNon-Denominational/IndependentSan MarcosFounded 2024WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Awaken Church is a non-denominational, independent congregation founded in 2024 in San Marcos, meeting Sundays at 9 and 11am on State Highway 123. In its own words, "at Awaken, we are family," gathering through the week in home groups with young adult and youth ministries, and emphasizing "encountering God through the continuing work of Jesus and power of the Holy Spirit."
- Calvary Baptist ChurchBaptistSan MarcosFounded 1953WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Calvary Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist congregation on the northbound I-35 frontage road in San Marcos, in what it describes as the heart of the I-35 corridor of the Texas Hill Country. It traces its beginning to a mission started by members of First Baptist Church San Marcos and was incorporated in January 1955, and it held its first service in its present building at Easter 2008. Sunday school, morning worship, Sunday evening discipleship classes and a Wednesday evening Bible study make up the weekly schedule, alongside children's, student, young adult, men's and women's ministries and a Celebrate Recovery group.
- Calvary Chapel of the SpringsPentecostalSan MarcosFounded 1997WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Calvary Chapel of the Springs is a Calvary Chapel congregation in downtown San Marcos, describing itself as 'a fellowship of believers in the Lordship of Jesus Christ.' Services are held Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings.
- Christ Life ChurchNon-Denominational/IndependentSan MarcosWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Christ Life Church is a non-denominational congregation on Quail Run Drive in San Marcos, Texas, which also publishes itself as 633 Church under the theme of seeking first the Kingdom. It invites visitors to plan a visit and to connect through groups as a next step in their faith journey.
- Christ the RockNon-Denominational/IndependentSan MarcosWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Christ the Rock is a non-denominational congregation on North Highway 123 in San Marcos, Texas. In its own words it is a community of faith speaking, Bible believing individuals, on a mission to announce and prepare the church for the coming of Christ Jesus. It publishes no website of its own.
- Community Baptist ChurchBaptistSan MarcosFounded 1976WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Community Baptist Church is an independent Baptist congregation at 1800 Old Ranch Road 12 in San Marcos, in Hays County south of Austin, incorporated in 1976. Its own Articles of Faith describe it as a Bible Baptist church holding the King James Version as God's preserved Word in English, and it meets for Sunday school, morning and evening Sunday services and a Wednesday mid-week service.
- Covenant Anglican ChurchAnglicanSan MarcosFounded 2016WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Covenant Anglican Church is a congregation in San Marcos and a member of the Anglican Church in North America. It describes itself as a fellowship of believers committed to God's glory and to sharing the transforming grace and truth of Jesus Christ, and holds traditional liturgical worship Sundays at 10:30 a.m. on Center Point Road.
- San MarcosFounded 1870SpanishWebsiteSuggest a correction
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El Buen Pastor Iglesia Metodista Unida is a Spanish-language United Methodist congregation in San Marcos, established in 1870 as the first Hispanic Methodist church in the region. Its bilingual services combine, in its own words, the rich Hispanic/Latino heritage with the Wesleyan tradition.
- San MarcosFounded 1857WebsiteSuggest a correction
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First Baptist Church of San Marcos is a Baptist congregation at 325 W. McCarty Lane in San Marcos, Texas, founded in 1857. In its own words it is "a community of imperfect people committed to following Jesus," with a vision of being "a diverse and multi-generational community of believers who love, worship, and serve Jesus Christ." Its ministries include Spanish-language and college ministries and an ASL service.
- First Christian Church - San MarcosDisciples of ChristSan MarcosFounded 1853WebsiteSuggest a correction
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First Christian Church is a Disciples of Christ congregation founded in 1853 and meeting at 3105 Ranch Road 12 in San Marcos. It gathers for worship at 10:30 a.m. each Sunday, in person and by livestream, and makes its facility available for community use.
- First Lutheran ChurchLutheranSan MarcosWebsiteSuggest a correction
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First Lutheran Church is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in downtown San Marcos. It describes itself as believing in grace alone, given freely by God rather than earned, and as a fellowship called to share the Good News through learning, listening, praying and working together. Sunday worship is at 10:30, offered in person and online.
- First Presbyterian Church - San MarcosPresbyterian/ReformedSan MarcosFounded 1910WebsiteSuggest a correction
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First Presbyterian Church of San Marcos is a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregation at 410 W Hutchison St, founded in 1910. The congregation worships on Sunday mornings, streams its services, and offers Bible studies, Presbyterian Women circles, and other adult ministries.
- San MarcosFounded 1847WebsiteSuggest a correction
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First United Methodist Church San Marcos is a United Methodist congregation founded in 1847, a year before the city of San Marcos itself, gathering at 129 W Hutchison Street downtown. It offers traditional worship in its 1893 sanctuary and a contemporary praise service, with ministries including a day school and a Wesley Nurse community health program.
- Fresh Word ChurchNon-Denominational/IndependentSan MarcosWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Fresh Word Church is a non-denominational congregation on Uhland Road in San Marcos, Texas. In its own words it is a ministry that focuses on influencing our world with the Kingdom of God, teaching disciples, creating leaders and equipping believers through the truths of God's Word and the power of the Holy Spirit.
- Grace Bible ChurchNon-Denominational/IndependentSan MarcosFounded 1969WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Grace Bible Church of San Marcos is a non-denominational congregation on Country Estates Drive in San Marcos, Texas, established in 1969, which publishes its purpose as equipping the saints and proclaiming Jesus. Its stated vision is to glorify God by establishing a training program that ministers to every spiritual and physical age group at its present level of maturity, and it describes its calling as being to San Marcos and the Hill Country.
- Grace Lutheran ChurchLutheranSan MarcosFounded 1956WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Grace Lutheran Church is a congregation of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in San Marcos, holding its first service in 1956. It describes itself as a growing, traditional congregation with Christ-centered worship for all ages, and supports mission partnerships in Uganda and Belize.
- San MarcosFounded 1883Suggest a correction
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Greater Bethel Baptist Church is a historically African American Baptist congregation on Centre Street in San Marcos. It describes itself as a house of prayer, praise, and worship, and states its aim as doing its part to know and make Jesus known. It broadcasts its worship services live from its sanctuary.
- Hill Country ChurchNon-Denominational/IndependentSan MarcosFounded 1971WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Hill Country Church is a non-denominational congregation on Davis Lane in San Marcos, Texas, established in 1971, gathering Sundays at 10:30am with services also streamed online. In its own words it is a spirit-filled church committed to affecting generations for the Kingdom of God, and states its mission as being a transformed people equipped to transform their world.
- Holland Street Church of ChristChurch of ChristSan MarcosFounded 1985WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Holland Street Church of Christ is a Church of Christ congregation in central San Marcos that confesses the historic Christian faith summarized in the Apostles' Creed. Its worship is a cappella, and it shares the Lord's Supper each Sunday.
- San MarcosFounded 1904Suggest a correction
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Jackson Chapel United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist congregation in San Marcos, established in 1904, holding traditional worship each Sunday.
- Kingdom Family San MarcosPentecostalSan MarcosWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Kingdom Family San Marcos is a Pentecostal Church of God congregation that gathers for Sunday evening dinner and worship in a host church's building on Hunter Road in San Marcos, Texas. In its own words, it is 'a place where people can meet Jesus, engage in life-giving community, and everyone has a seat at the table.'
- San MarcosWebsiteSuggest a correction
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La Luz Del Mundo San Marcos is a local congregation of La Luz del Mundo (The Church of the Living God, Pillar and Support of the Truth, The Light of the World), an international church headquartered in Guadalajara, Mexico, gathering on Centre Street in San Marcos.
- San MarcosWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Love of Christ Baptist Church is a Baptist congregation on Rattler Road in San Marcos, Texas, in Hays County south of Austin. In its own words it "exists to provide meaningful worship, strengthen spiritual values," and it publicizes the tagline "Growing in Faith. Loving Like Jesus. Serving Our Community." Sunday worship is at 11:00, and it hosts a women's Bible study during the week.
- MAAM - San Marcos TxNon-Denominational/IndependentSan MarcosSpanishWebsiteSuggest a correction
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MAAM - San Marcos Tx is a congregation on Soul Harvest Pass in San Marcos, Texas. In its own words it is the Ministerio Apostolico Avance Misionero. It publishes in Spanish and announces its gatherings through its own Facebook page rather than through a website of its own.
- Memorial Presbyterian ChurchPresbyterian/ReformedSan MarcosFounded 2004SpanishWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Memorial Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregation in San Marcos that describes its mission as following the call of Jesus Christ and bearing witness to the world, making full use of its gifts as a bilingual, bi-cultural congregation. It worships Sunday at 11 a.m. with both traditional hymns and contemporary praise music and holds a Wednesday evening Bible study.
- Misión Elim San MarcosPentecostalSan MarcosSpanishWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Misión Elim San Marcos is a Spanish-language Pentecostal congregation of the Misión Cristiana Elim network, meeting on West McCarty Lane in San Marcos.
- New Hope Baptist ChurchBaptistSan MarcosFounded 1998WebsiteSuggest a correction
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New Hope Baptist Church is a Baptist congregation on State Highway 80 in San Marcos, Texas, which describes itself as a place to belong and as faulty pilgrims in search of a better way. It gathers for Sunday Bible study and morning worship alongside a midweek Bible study, and summarises its purpose as lost people saved, saved people matured, and mature people multiplied. Its published beliefs affirm the tri-unity of God, the deity and virgin birth of Jesus Christ, substitutionary atonement, and his bodily resurrection and ascension.
- New Life Christian CenterPentecostalSan MarcosWebsiteSuggest a correction
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New Life Christian Center is an Assemblies of God congregation on Highway 123 in San Marcos. It holds Sunday morning worship and an evening prayer service, with a youth group, Bible study and women's ministry, and music ranging from traditional hymns to contemporary praise and worship.
- New Zion Baptist ChurchBaptistSan MarcosFounded 1866WebsiteSuggest a correction
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New Zion Baptist Church is a historically African American Baptist congregation on South Mitchell Street in San Marcos, Texas, founded in 1866 as Colored Baptist Church Zion in the years just after emancipation. It describes its mission as reaching, restoring, and releasing God's people back into the world, and gathers for two Sunday morning services alongside midweek Bible study and corporate prayer. Its statement of belief affirms the Trinity, the full atonement accomplished in Christ's death and resurrection, and Scripture as truth without any mixture of error.
- San MarcosFounded 2013WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Our Lady of Wisdom University Parish is a Roman Catholic parish of the Diocese of Austin serving the students, faculty, and staff of Texas State University from 100 Concho Street, adjacent to campus in downtown San Marcos. The ministry began as a Newman Club in 1914 and was established as a parish in 2013. Its stated mission is making known the wisdom of Christ through Truth, Beauty, and Goodness.
- PromiseLand ChurchNon-Denominational/IndependentSan MarcosFounded 2003WebsiteSuggest a correction
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PromiseLand Church is a non-denominational congregation on Lime Kiln Road in San Marcos, Texas, established in 2003. In its own words it is a Spirit-filled group of believers who long to be closer to God and to each other, and it states that it exists to bring people into an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ and one another. Its published beliefs include water baptism by immersion for believers.
- Real Life Faith CenterNon-Denominational/IndependentSan MarcosSuggest a correction
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Real Life Faith Center is an independent Christian congregation on South Old Bastrop Highway in San Marcos, Texas.
- Rock River ChurchNon-Denominational/IndependentSan MarcosFounded 2018WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Rock River Church is a non-denominational congregation meeting at 400 Uhland Road in San Marcos, Texas, begun in the fall of 2018 by a team sent from Vine Church in Carbondale, Illinois. In its own words it is a Bible-based Christian church made up of families, young professionals, retirees, college students and children, with a Sunday service at 10am, and it states its desire to be a local church where people can learn about Jesus in a way that deeply impacts and changes their lives.
- San MarcosFounded 1883SpanishWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic parish of the Diocese of Austin that has served San Marcos since 1883. The parish describes itself as a multi-cultural, multi-lingual, and multi-generational community serving more than 2,000 families, with worship and ministries in English and Spanish.
- San Marcos Church of ChristChurch of ChristSan MarcosFounded 1988SpanishWebsiteSuggest a correction
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San Marcos Church of Christ is a Church of Christ congregation at 2660 Hunter Road in San Marcos, offering Sunday Bible study and worship with adult classes in English and Spanish.
- San Marcos Community ChurchNon-Denominational/IndependentSan MarcosFounded 2001WebsiteSuggest a correction
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San Marcos Community Church is a non-denominational congregation on South Old Bastrop Highway in San Marcos, Texas, established in 2001, with two Sunday services at 9 and 11am and a weekly Thursday morning prayer meeting. It publishes its theme in its own words as inviting off-centered people to practice a God-centered lifestyle, and describes itself as made up of people of diverse religious backgrounds and ethnic origins who find a common denominator in their relationship with Jesus Christ.
- Sinai Pentecostal ChurchPentecostalSan MarcosFounded 1954SpanishWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Sinai Pentecostal Church is a Pentecostal congregation at 208 Laredo Street in San Marcos, Texas, holding services in English and Spanish. It is affiliated with the Unified Pentecostal Local Churches International, and its published schedule includes a midweek service, a ladies' prayer meeting and a Saturday morning prayer hour.
- Solid Rock ChurchNon-Denominational/IndependentSan MarcosFounded 1992WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Solid Rock Church is a non-denominational congregation on Hunter Road in San Marcos, Texas, established in 1992. In its own words it is a Bible-based church and a family church that is multi-ethnic and multi-generational, made up of college students, professionals, singles, married couples and children of all ages.
- Soma San MarcosNon-Denominational/IndependentSan MarcosWebsiteSuggest a correction
- Soul Harvest Fellowship ChurchNon-Denominational/IndependentSan MarcosFounded 2006WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Soul Harvest Fellowship Church is a non-denominational congregation at its own building on Soul Harvest Pass in San Marcos, Texas.
- St Mark's Episcopal ChurchEpiscopalSan MarcosFounded 1874WebsiteSuggest a correction
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St. Mark's Episcopal Church is a parish in San Marcos, organized in 1874 and part of the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas. Under the motto "You Have a Place at this Table," it holds Sunday services at 8:00 and 11:00 am at its Ranch Road 12 campus, dedicated in 2010.
- Talking Hands Bible ChurchBaptistSan MarcosFounded 2019American Sign LanguageWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Talking Hands Bible Church is a Deaf congregation that worships in American Sign Language on Sunday afternoons, meeting at New Hope Baptist Church on State Highway 80 in San Marcos, Texas. In its own words, “We are Southern Baptists but we try to be nontraditional because of the practice in the early church,” and “We speak in the totally American Sign Language, however, we have a few vocal interpreters for the hearing attendees.” Its published beliefs affirm one triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and the deity, atoning death and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.
- The Connection Church San MarcosNon-Denominational/IndependentSan MarcosFounded 2017WebsiteSuggest a correction
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The Connection Church San Marcos is a campus of The Connection Church, a non-denominational church that began in the Kyle area in 2004. In its own words, "At The Connection Church, we want to help you connect with God, connect with others, and connect others with God." The San Marcos campus opened in 2017 on Broadway Street and holds Sunday services at 9:30am and 11am.
- The R.O.C.K. SCTNon-Denominational/IndependentSan MarcosWebsiteSuggest a correction
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The R.O.C.K. SCT is a non-denominational congregation on Center Point Road in San Marcos, Texas.
- The Springs ChurchNon-Denominational/IndependentSan MarcosWebsiteSuggest a correction
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The Springs Church is a non-denominational congregation on Springtown Way in San Marcos, Texas, gathering on Sundays at 10am. In its own words it exists to make disciples who are being transformed by the gospel, and its statement of faith holds the Scriptures to be God's inspired written word, infallible and sufficient.
- The Well Community ChurchBaptistSan MarcosFounded 2020WebsiteSuggest a correction
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The Well Community Church is a Southern Baptist congregation on Post Road in San Marcos, Texas, planted in January 2020 by a team that moved to the city with about ten people to reach students at Texas State University. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention and with the Send Network. Its stated mission is "to multiply disciples of Jesus who are reaching the campus, the city, and the world," and it describes its work as helping people "say their next yes to Jesus by enjoying God, growing together, and living on Mission." It names six cultural values: gospel dependency, joyful generosity, relational honesty, inside-out discipleship, everyday missionaries and spiritual multiplication. Its published beliefs affirm "one God eternally existing as one essence and three distinct persons," that God created the world from nothing and governs all things, that sin has fractured all things, "that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone," that the Church is the body of Christ sent into the world, and that Jesus Christ is returning to judge the living and the dead.
- San MarcosFounded 2009WebsiteSuggest a correction
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United Fellowship of San Marcos is a Baptist congregation on State Highway 123 in San Marcos, Texas, founded in 2009 and listed in the Southern Baptist Convention church directory. It maintains an active Facebook page and publishes no standalone website of its own.
- University Church of ChristChurch of ChristSan MarcosFounded 1853WebsiteSuggest a correction
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University Church of Christ traces its roots to 1853, when members first met just off the campus of what is now Texas State University. The congregation has worshiped at its Country Estates Drive building in San Marcos since 1985 and describes itself as a church family striving to love God, each other, and its neighbors.
- Victory ChapelPentecostalSan MarcosFounded 2019WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Victory Chapel is a Pentecostal congregation on Martin Luther King Drive in San Marcos, Texas, gathering on Sundays and Wednesdays. In its own words it is "a Christ-centered, Spirit-filled church" whose welcome runs to those who have "attended church your whole life or have never stepped foot in one." It publishes its beliefs on the Bible, God, salvation, prayer and the Great Commission, saying it is "endeavoring to share Jesus with love and compassion" with the people of San Marcos, and it runs a leadership-training programme alongside its regular gatherings.
- San MarcosFounded 2018WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Wayfinders Church is a Church of the Nazarene congregation on Center Point Road in San Marcos, Texas, founded in 2018. Its published beliefs hold that there is one God revealed in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and that the Old and New Testament Scriptures, inspired by the Holy Spirit, contain all truth necessary to faith and Christian living.
- Wesley Chapel AME ChurchMethodistSan MarcosFounded 1875Suggest a correction
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Wesley Chapel AME Church is an African Methodist Episcopal congregation at 224 S Fredericksburg Street in San Marcos, Texas. Tracing its history to 1875, it is believed to be the oldest African American congregation in San Marcos and operated a Freedmen's school in the 1870s.
- Westover Baptist ChurchBaptistSan MarcosFounded 1938WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Westover Baptist Church is a Baptist congregation on Advance Street in San Marcos, Texas, founded in 1938. In its own words it is "a small congregation that has been a part of the San Marcos, TX community since 1938", and its published beliefs are that "the Bible is inerrant Word of God and salvation comes through Jesus Christ alone". It hosts a memorial playground and a Rodeo 4 Jesus outreach.
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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 White44.7%
- Hispanic or Latino42.9%
- Non-Hispanic Black4.9%
- Two or more races3.7%
- Non-Hispanic Asian1.9%
- Some other race1.8%
Metro share, for comparison
Population
San Marcos77,080Austin metro2,426,5922026 edition, ACS 2020-2024
Median age
San Marcos26.4Austin metro36.02026 edition, ACS 2020-2024
Median household income
San Marcos$51,139Austin metro$100,4312026 edition, ACS 2020-2024
Non-Hispanic White
San Marcos44.7%Austin metro48.7%2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024
Hispanic or Latino
San Marcos42.9%Austin metro32.2%2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024
Active churches
San Marcos54Austin metro1,196 (metro total)Our church database, 2026-10-10
Residents per church
San Marcos~1,430Austin metro~1,980 (fifteen divisions)Both sources
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The languages of this division
What is spoken at home here, other than English, and how many congregations record worshipping in it.
Spanish
Speak it at home17,803 ± 1,514Share of residents 5 and over24.1%Congregations worshipping in it7Other Indo-European languages
Speak it at home1,155 ± 623Share of residents 5 and over1.6%French, Haitian, or Cajun
Speak it at home251 ± 148Share of residents 5 and over0.3%Chinese, including Mandarin and Cantonese
Speak it at home243 ± 222Share of residents 5 and over0.3%Congregations worshipping in it0German or other West Germanic
Speak it at home219 ± 149Share of residents 5 and over0.3%
Languages from the American Community Survey, 2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024, as a share of residents five and over. Congregations from the Society database as of 2026-10-10: a language recorded on a congregation is a language it worships in, not a count of its members. A congregation number appears only where the survey names a single language our records also name. How we read these two sources
Ministries at work here
Alongside the congregations, 10 organizations serve this division. On the map above they are the open rings; the filled dots are churches.
- San MarcosChristian schoolTraditional ChristianWebsiteSuggest a correction
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A Seventh-day Adventist school in San Marcos serving PreK through the upper grades, formerly San Marcos Adventist Junior Academy. In its own words it is "operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church to provide a spiritually oriented education for children" and "in harmony with the guidance and direction of the Office of Education, North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church." Its stated mission is "equipping students to be servant leaders by seeking God first."
- Evangelism/DiscipleshipWebsiteSuggest a correction
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A Churches of Christ campus ministry at Texas State University in San Marcos, working through University Church of Christ from a student centre on the Texas State campus, under the Bobcats for Christ banner.
- FCA Hays & Caldwell Countynot mappedNetwork or citywide ministryWebsiteSuggest a correction
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This is the Fellowship of Christian Athletes area ministry serving Hays and Caldwell county schools and campuses, including San Marcos, Kyle, Buda, Lockhart, Dripping Springs, and Wimberley. Its staff, volunteers and students describe their aim as making disciples through FCA's strategy of engaging, equipping and empowering coaches and athletes to know and grow in Christ and lead others to do the same, so that they might see the world transformed by Jesus Christ through the influence of coaches and athletes. It works through separate West Hays and East Hays teams and is one of eight area ministries under FCA's Greater Austin metro office.
- FCA Texas State Universitynot mappedNetwork or citywide ministryWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Texas State University FCA is the Fellowship of Christian Athletes campus ministry at Texas State University in San Marcos, describing its team as responsible for making disciples of Jesus Christ on the Texas State campus. It is one of eight area ministries under FCA's Greater Austin metro office.
- San MarcosChristian schoolTraditional ChristianWebsiteSuggest a correction
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A Christian school in San Marcos serving pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade on a four-day weekly schedule, founded in 1976 and a member of ACE and ACSI. Its curriculum is Bible-based rather than classical. In its own words its core values are 'built on Jesus Christ, represented by the cross being in the center.' Enrollment is about 206. Not to be confused with Hill Country Christian School of Austin, a different school.
- Igniting Prayer Actionnot mappedNetwork or citywide ministryWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Igniting Prayer Action is a San Marcos-based prayer ministry that Colin Millar started. In its own words, prayer is far more than something we simply do; it is a lifestyle, and the ministry helps people discover prayer as a life-changing journey of open dialogue between themselves, God, and other believers. Its programs include Personal Intercessory Teams, the Luke 10 Transformation discipleship course, live training events, and a monthly newsletter.
- San MarcosChristian schoolTraditional ChristianWebsiteSuggest a correction
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A Christian boarding and day school on a hill-country campus in San Marcos, founded in 1907 and serving PreK3 through twelfth grade, with boarding for grades six through twelve. It is, in its own words, "affiliated with Texas Baptists through the Baptist General Convention of Texas," and describes itself as "a caring, Christ-centered community where students are known, loved, challenged, and equipped to flourish in their faith, academics, character, and life." Accredited through Cognia.
- Network or citywide ministryWebsiteSuggest a correction
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The Southwest Texas District of the Pentecostal Church of God is the denomination's regional district office, based in San Marcos, supporting the churches and credentialed ministers within its bounds across South and Central Texas. It describes itself as a fellowship of Christians working together to support and be a resource to its churches and ministers to equip the saints for the work of the ministry, and it publishes a directory of its chartered and fellowshipping churches.
- Network or citywide ministryWebsiteSuggest a correction
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United Campus Ministry at Texas State is a multi-denominational college ministry in San Marcos that sums up its purpose as Loving Jesus. Building Friendships. Finding Purpose., and describes its work as helping students grow spiritually in the love of Jesus, form authentic friendships, and discover God's purpose in their lives. It gathers students for weekly worship, small groups and social events, with particular attention to new students, and connects them with local church partners on Sundays. It is a partnership of The United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ.
- San MarcosChristian schoolTraditional ChristianWebsiteSuggest a correction
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A privately owned Christian school in San Marcos serving pre-kindergarten through sixth grade, founded in 1965 and continuing under the same family across two generations. Enrollment figures vary by source; the school's own marketing and third-party listings disagree.
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Read more about San Marcos
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 San Marcos Census County Division sits at the southern hinge of the Greater Austin MSA, a 133-square-mile region in central Hays County built around the city of San Marcos, the spring-fed San Marcos River, and Texas State University. Its population is 77,080, with a density of 579.5 people per square mile. The river that runs through the center of this CCD rises from one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in North America, and the university that sits beside it has shaped the rhythm of the region for more than a century. To understand San Marcos demographically, you have to begin with the university, because almost every number in this CCD bends around it.
San Marcos is the youngest CCD in the entire Greater Austin metro, and it is not close. The median age is 26.4, about three-quarters of Hays County's 34.1 and roughly two-thirds of the United States median of 38.9. Texas State University enrolled a record 44,596 students in the fall of 2025, more than half the total population of this CCD, and the student body reshapes nearly every household and economic figure here. Households average just 2.3 persons per household, below the MSA's 2.5, reflecting the apartments and shared rentals that ring the campus. There are 30,445 households and 32,972 housing units. The median value of owner-occupied housing is $305,600, about three-quarters of Hays County's $399,800 and well below the MSA median of roughly $465,000, though much of San Marcos lives in rental rather than owned housing. The most striking household number is mobility. Roughly 30 percent of residents moved within the past year, more than double the Texas and national rates, the unmistakable churn of a town where tens of thousands of young adults arrive and depart on the academic calendar.
Race and ethnicity in San Marcos are nearly evenly split between two large groups. Non-Hispanic White residents are 44.7 percent of the population and Hispanic or Latino residents are 42.9 percent, a near-even balance that makes San Marcos one of the most heavily Hispanic CCDs in the metro. Non-Hispanic Black residents are 4.9 percent, residents of two or more races are 3.7 percent, Non-Hispanic Asian residents are 1.9 percent, and Non-Hispanic residents of some other race are 1.8 percent. Foreign-born residents are 8.9 percent of the population, about half the MSA figure of 16.2 percent. The Hispanic presence in San Marcos is not primarily an immigrant story. It is the deep Tejano inheritance of the old Camino Real and the San Marcos River valley, layered with the Spanish-speaking families who have lived in this part of Hays County for generations.
Economically, San Marcos reads as a college town, which means its numbers require interpretation. Per capita income is $28,230 and median household income is $51,139, both roughly three-fifths of the Hays County figures and about half the MSA median of $100,431. The poverty rate is 25.9 percent, more than double the Hays County rate of 12.1 percent and the highest of any CCD in the Greater Austin metro. A large share of that figure is the statistical poverty of students who report little income while enrolled, and it should not be read as straightforward economic distress. Yet the number also conceals genuine and lasting need among the non-student families of San Marcos, who live alongside a transient student majority in one of the more expensive housing markets in Central Texas. Educational attainment is high by some measures and complicated by others. High school completion is 89.3 percent, and bachelor's degree attainment is 36.8 percent, below the metro rate of 45 percent, a figure depressed by the very students who will earn degrees but have not yet. Mean travel time to work is 24.6 minutes, shorter than the MSA average of 27.3, because in San Marcos a large portion of the population lives, studies, and works inside the same CCD rather than commuting out. 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, San Marcos is the university CCD, and that single fact distinguishes it from every other division in the metro. No other CCD is built around a campus of more than 44,000 students. Compared to its sister CCD of Kyle and Buda directly to the north, San Marcos is far younger, poorer on paper, denser in rental housing, and dramatically more transient, even though the two share Hays County and the same I-35 corridor. Compared to Austin proper, San Marcos is younger, more Hispanic, less affluent, and more concentrated around a single dominant institution. Compared to the Hill Country CCD of Dripping Springs and Wimberley to the west, San Marcos could hardly be more different, trading rolling ranchland and retirement-age affluence for a young, churning, working-class college town on the river.
The deltas from the MSA tell the story. Median age is 26.4, well below the metro's 36 and the lowest of any CCD in Greater Austin. The poverty rate is 25.9 percent, compared with 9.8 percent across the MSA, the highest in the metro. Per capita income is $28,230, far below the metro level. Residential mobility runs near 30 percent in a single year, compared with the low double digits regionally. Persons per household are 2.3, below the MSA's 2.5. Hispanic population share is 42.9 percent, up from 32.2 percent across the metro. Foreign-born share is 8.9 percent, well below the MSA's 16.2 percent. Mean commute is 24.6 minutes, below the metro's 27.3, because San Marcos workers stay closer to home than almost any other CCD in the region. The composite portrait is of a CCD unlike any other in Greater Austin, a young, Hispanic-and-Anglo, spring-fed college town where a population the size of a mid-size city refreshes itself every four years.
San Marcos also carries a layered cultural memory that no other CCD in the metro shares. The San Marcos River and its springs have drawn people for more than ten thousand years, and the town that grew up beside them became, in time, the home of Southwest Texas State Teachers College, now Texas State University, the only Texas institution to have educated a President of the United States in Lyndon Baines Johnson, who graduated in 1930. The river still defines the town, the university still drives its economy, and the historic neighborhoods east of downtown still hold the Black and Tejano congregations that have anchored San Marcos since the years just after the Civil War. The Church here is not a single story. It is a downtown of nineteenth-century mainline sanctuaries, a ring of student-reaching plants around the campus, a thin but vital Spanish-speaking presence, and a set of historically Black congregations whose memory of San Marcos runs back to 1866.
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.
San Marcos has 48 active churches (figure from the July 2026 edition) serving approximately 77,080 residents, for a ratio of roughly 1 church per 1,606 residents (figure from the July 2026 edition). On its face that is a moderate density for the Greater Austin metro. The headline number, however, hides the most important fact about this CCD. More than half the population is made up of university students who turn over every few years, who attend church at lower rates than the settled population, and who are reached, when they are reached at all, through a different kind of ministry than a neighborhood congregation. The real mission field of San Marcos is not measured in church buildings per resident. It is measured in whether the gospel reaches a rolling population of more than 44,000 young adults during the few formative years they spend on the banks of the San Marcos River. Many of the 48 active churches (figure from the July 2026 edition) carry too little public information to be known well, so the count says more about presence than about health. We believe the primary missional needs in San Marcos are threefold. First, the students of Texas State need a generation of campus ministries and student-reaching churches strong enough to meet a record and still-growing enrollment. Second, in a CCD that is nearly 43 percent Hispanic, the Spanish-speaking church is strikingly thin, with only a handful of bilingual or Spanish-language congregations, and it needs both planting and strengthening. Third, the settled, non-student families of San Marcos, including the historically Black congregations near downtown and the working families across the river, need churches that see them and serve them rather than orienting everything around the university.
A kingdom ecosystem
And yet the church was never meant to carry the whole work alone, and the nonprofits and Christian institutions listed on this page 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
San Marcos 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 the Austin Baptist Association 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. Leadership development raises up the next generation of pastors and planters, through the Colson Fellows Program, New Canaan Society Austin, PastorServe, and Mission Increase. And unifying networks connect leaders across congregations, traditions, and sectors for the good of the whole city, among them Christ Together Greater Austin, the Church Ambassador Network of Texas, and the Greater Austin Mission Society.
For San Marcos, the nearest strength is campus ministry, fitting for a university city where more than 44,000 students live within the CCD, and the metro's campus-evangelism networks are a resource this region can draw on directly. Almost every other locally based sector is thin, from mercy and justice to family support, so the gaps worth praying toward are wide. Pray that the churches of San Marcos would tie into the citywide campus, mercy, and church-planting networks, and that a town that mostly sends its young people out would also learn to receive the ministries that could serve the poor and the settled families who remain.
If you want to go further
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The full Census Reporter profile for San Marcos. How this data is gathered and verified.
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