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Census County Division · Williamson County

Taylor

Neighbors
103,198
Active churches
74
Residents per church
~1,390

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 74 active congregations in Taylor today, and about 103,198 neighbors, which is roughly one church for every 1,390 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 Taylor 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 Taylor Census County Division is the eastern reach of Williamson County, a 373.9-square-mile region that extends from the city of Taylor southeast through the farming communities and rural corridors of the Blackland Prairie. Its population is 103,198, making it the third-largest CCD in Williamson County and a significantly larger area than the city of Taylor alone. Population density is 276 people per square mile, notably less concentrated than the Round Rock and Georgetown and Cedar Park and Liberty Hill CCDs to the west, but more than twice the density of Jarrell to the northwest. The region's geographic and cultural heart is the city of Taylor itself, a historic agricultural market town platted in 1876 whose story is now being rewritten by the arrival of one of the largest semiconductor manufacturing investments in American history.

The population carries a modestly family-oriented character with a median age of 36.6, a little above the MSA median of 36 and just below Williamson County's 37.3. Households average 2.9 persons per household, above the MSA norm, and 6 percent of women aged fifteen to fifty gave birth in the past year, a rate above both the Texas and national averages. There are 35,985 households and 38,095 housing units. Median owner-occupied home value is $385,800, meaningfully below the Williamson County figure of $447,000 and well below the MSA median of $465,000, making Taylor one of the more accessible entry points for homeownership in Williamson County. Median household income is $113,246, above the MSA's $100,431, though per capita income is $47,074, about 90 percent of Williamson County's $53,505, reflecting larger household sizes and a workforce rooted more in trades, manufacturing, and agriculture than in high-earning professional employment. The poverty rate is 5.6 percent, the lowest of any CCD in this project and less than two-thirds of the MSA's 9.81 percent.

Race and ethnicity in Taylor reflect the layered heritage of a Central Texas market town. Non-Hispanic White residents are 50.6 percent of the population, Hispanic or Latino residents are 31.7 percent, Non-Hispanic Black residents are 7.3 percent, residents of two or more races are 5.1 percent, and Non-Hispanic Asian residents are 4.4 percent. Foreign-born residents are 12.6 percent, below the MSA's 16.2 percent, though that figure is expected to shift as semiconductor industry workers and their families from South Korea and other countries establish residency in the region. Veterans make up 8.1 percent of the adult civilian population, above both the Williamson County and national averages. Bachelor's degree attainment stands at 37.9 percent, below Williamson County's 48.4 percent and the metro's overall rate, consistent with a workforce historically rooted in agriculture, construction, manufacturing, and trades. Mean travel time to work is 29.8 minutes, above the MSA's 27.3. All figures are from the 2024 five-year ACS release.

What makes this division distinct

Among the fifteen CCDs in the Greater Austin MSA, Taylor's congregation landscape reaches back to the founding year of the city itself. First Presbyterian Church of Taylor was organized in 1876 as the first church of any denomination in the newly platted town. Eight additional congregations followed before 1900, including four that remain active today with more than 130 years of continuous witness. No other CCD in the MSA outside of the Austin core carries that depth of Protestant tradition across as many streams. At the same time, Taylor is now undergoing an economic transformation that no other CCD in the region has experienced. Samsung's semiconductor fabrication campus north of the city represents a multi-billion-dollar investment that is reshaping Taylor's workforce, housing market, and cultural composition faster than any census cycle can fully capture, and it will continue to do so for a generation.

Compared to the other Williamson County CCDs, Taylor is more diverse and more historically rooted. Its 31.7 percent Hispanic share is above Cedar Park and Liberty Hill but similar to Jarrell. Its 7.3 percent Non-Hispanic Black share is higher than any other Williamson County CCD and reflects the historic presence of African-American families who have lived in Taylor since Reconstruction, particularly on the city's east side, where several historically Black congregations have held continuous witness for more than a century. Taylor's median household income of $113,246 exceeds the MSA median of $100,431, yet its per capita income of $47,074 trails the county, and its bachelor's degree rate of 37.9 percent falls ten points below Williamson County's, indicating that the wealth in the CCD is distributed across larger households and more working-class wages rather than concentrated in high individual earnings.

The deltas from the MSA frame the Taylor story with precision. Median home value at $385,800 is below the MSA's $465,000, preserving Taylor's reputation as one of the more accessible urban addresses in the region. Commute time at 29.8 minutes is above the MSA's 27.3, reflecting distance from the main employment centers of Round Rock, Austin, and the tech corridors of northern Travis County. Poverty at 5.6 percent is the lowest figure of any CCD in this project. And beneath every data point is the demographic force that the 2024 ACS has only partially begun to register: the arrival of the semiconductor industry and its supply chain, expected to bring thousands of new residents, many of them from South Korea and other parts of Asia, into a city that until recently was known primarily for Czech and German settler churches, Blackland Prairie farming, and a small-town pace that had changed little in a generation. Taylor is, in the fullest sense of the word, a city being rebuilt.

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 White50.6%
  • Hispanic or Latino31.7%
  • Non-Hispanic Black7.3%
  • Two or more races5.1%
  • Non-Hispanic Asian4.4%
  • Some other race0.7%

Metro share, for comparison

  • Population

    Taylor103,198
    Austin metro2,426,592

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Median age

    Taylor36.6
    Austin metro36.0

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Median household income

    Taylor$113,246
    Austin metro$100,431

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Non-Hispanic White

    Taylor50.6%
    Austin metro48.7%

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Hispanic or Latino

    Taylor31.7%
    Austin metro32.2%

    2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024

  • Active churches

    Taylor74
    Austin metro1,151 (metro total)

    Our church database, 2026-08-30

  • Residents per church

    Taylor~1,390
    Austin metro~2,060 (fifteen divisions)

    Both sources

The others who serve here

You share Taylor 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.

Taylor has 72 active churches serving approximately 103,198 residents, for a ratio of roughly 1 church per 1,433 residents. That is denser than the Greater Austin metro as a whole, which averages about one church per 2,161 residents, and it places Taylor within the range at which Christian community engagement more commonly begins to take root across a population. This count reflects a July 2026 geographic refresh that folded the congregations of Hutto, Coupland, Granger, and the surrounding northeast Williamson County corridor into the Taylor CCD, nearly doubling the number of active churches from the previous cycle. The figure should still be read with care. Many of the 72 active churches carry too little public information to be known well, a substantial mix of small independent congregations, Spanish-language churches with limited web presence, and historically Black congregations that are active and deeply rooted but have not been thoroughly researched. The density challenge in Taylor is now less about sheer numbers than about connection and coverage, and the shape of the missional need has more than one face. The older historic core of the city is served by long-established congregations spanning nearly every Protestant tradition. The growing western and northern edges, where new subdivisions are going up alongside the semiconductor facility, together with the rapidly expanding communities of Hutto to the southwest, are absorbing new households faster than they are adding church capacity. And the Spanish-speaking and Black communities of Taylor carry distinct congregational histories that are underresourced and underconnected to the broader body. We believe the primary missional needs in Taylor are threefold. First, the established historic congregations of the city need renewal, reconnection to each other, and a theology of place that takes seriously the transformation now underway. Second, the new residential developments on Taylor's outskirts and across the Hutto corridor need gospel presence in the form of new church plants before those communities become settled without the church. Third, the multiethnic body of Taylor needs pastors and ministry leaders willing to step across racial, linguistic, and cultural lines to build the relational trust that genuine gospel partnership requires.

74 congregations across 11 denominational families.

Non-Denominational/Independent27 congregations

Pentecostal13 congregations

Baptist12 congregations

Lutheran6 congregations

Methodist6 congregations

Catholic3 congregations

Church of Christ2 congregations

Presbyterian/Reformed2 congregations

Disciples of Christ1 congregation

Episcopal1 congregation

Other1 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

Taylor 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 Taylor, this citywide ecosystem matters more than for almost any other CCD, because so few faith-based nonprofits are based here. This is a growing bedroom community near the Samsung corridor whose deepest strength is its historic congregations, but whose locally rooted mercy, youth, recovery, and family ministry is thin. The gaps worth praying toward are the callings that have not yet taken root in Taylor itself, especially mercy and youth ministry, and the region will lean on the wider Austin networks for foster care, counseling, immigrant services, and leadership development until more of that work is planted and grows here.

Ministries at work here

Alongside the congregations, 4 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.

Nonprofits3 organizations

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Christian Schools1 school

  • St. Mary's Catholic School
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    A PK3 through 12th grade classical Catholic school in Taylor, dating to 1896 and, in its own words, "the oldest private school in Williamson County." Its origins lie with the Dominican sisters. Its stated purpose is "educating for wisdom and virtue, centered on Christ, in the classical Catholic tradition," and it describes "a 129-year tradition of forming joyful disciples of Jesus Christ by cultivating a love of all that is true, beautiful, and good." Students attend Mass three days a week, and its high school is a member of the international Chesterton Schools Network.

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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 Taylor, write info@missionatx.org. A correction and an introduction are equally welcome.

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

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

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