{"id":8284,"date":"2023-09-22T11:26:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T11:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=8284"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:25:07","slug":"williamson-county-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/williamson-county-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Williamson County, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williamson County is a county in Texas, United States, immediately north of Austin along<br \/>\nInterstate 35. It had a population of 609,017 at the 2020 census, an estimated 752,827 by 2025,<br \/>\nand covers 1,118 square miles (2,900 km2) centred near 30\u00b039\u2032N 97\u00b035\u2032W.<\/p>\n<p>Georgetown is the county seat; its postal code is 78626. The county holds 14 incorporated<br \/>\ncities and towns, 4 census-designated places and roughly three dozen smaller unincorporated<br \/>\ncommunities, and it runs on Central Time. Its FIPS code is 48491.<\/p>\n<h2>Towns &amp; Villages in Williamson County<\/h2>\n<p>Williamson County has 14 incorporated cities and towns, 4 census-designated places (CDPs)<br \/>\nwith population counts of their own, and dozens more crossroads and rural place names carried<br \/>\non federal maps but with no government or population count. CDP stands for census designated<br \/>\nplace, a populated area the Census Bureau tracks but that has never incorporated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Pop. (2020)<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Round Rock<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>119,468<\/td>\n<td>78664<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Georgetown<\/td>\n<td>City &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>67,176<\/td>\n<td>78626<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cedar Park<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>77,595<\/td>\n<td>78613<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Leander<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>59,202<\/td>\n<td>78641<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hutto<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>27,577<\/td>\n<td>78634<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Taylor<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>16,267<\/td>\n<td>76574<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Liberty Hill<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>3,646<\/td>\n<td>78642<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jarrell<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>1,753<\/td>\n<td>76537<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Granger<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>1,183<\/td>\n<td>76530<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Florence<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>1,171<\/td>\n<td>76527<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bartlett<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>1,633<\/td>\n<td>76511<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Thrall<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>816<\/td>\n<td>76578<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Weir<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>699<\/td>\n<td>78674<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Coupland<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>289<\/td>\n<td>78615<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Pop. (2020)<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Brushy Creek<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>22,519<\/td>\n<td>78717<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sonterra<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>7,679<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Santa Rita Ranch<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>3,152<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Serenada<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>2,098<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Beyond those 18 places, the USGS Geographic Names Information System records roughly three<br \/>\ndozen more rural communities and historic crossroads in Williamson County with no population or<br \/>\nZIP of their own &mdash; among them Andice, Anderson Mill, Beaukiss, Circleville, Corn Hill,<br \/>\nElm Grove, Friendship, Jonah, Macedonia, Noack, Pond Springs, Schwertner, Shiloh, Sun City,<br \/>\nWalburg and Weir&#8217;s older neighbor Theon. Most are no more than a church, a cemetery and a<br \/>\nhandful of houses at a road junction; some, like Anderson Mill and Pond Springs, have been<br \/>\nabsorbed into Cedar Park&#8217;s and Austin&#8217;s built-up edges.<\/p>\n<p>Three cities on this list straddle a county line. Bartlett sits mostly in Bell County &mdash;<br \/>\nits downtown core is on the Bell side &mdash; but a slight majority of its incorporated land<br \/>\narea lies in Williamson, so the city appears in both counties&#8217; totals. Cedar Park is<br \/>\noverwhelmingly a Williamson County city with only a small southern edge reaching into Travis<br \/>\nCounty, and Leander is split between the two counties as well, with the larger share on the<br \/>\nWilliamson side. Jollyville, once a separate CDP in the county&#8217;s southeast corner, was<br \/>\nannexed by the City of Austin and no longer appears as its own census place.<\/p>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>78626 &mdash; Georgetown (also serves 78627, 78628 and 78633)<\/li>\n<li>78664 &mdash; Round Rock (also serves 78665 and 78680&ndash;78683)<\/li>\n<li>78613 &mdash; Cedar Park (also serves 78630)<\/li>\n<li>78641 &mdash; Leander (also serves 78646)<\/li>\n<li>78634 &mdash; Hutto<\/li>\n<li>76574 &mdash; Taylor<\/li>\n<li>78642 &mdash; Liberty Hill<\/li>\n<li>76537 &mdash; Jarrell<\/li>\n<li>76530 &mdash; Granger<\/li>\n<li>76527 &mdash; Florence<\/li>\n<li>76511 &mdash; Bartlett (shared with Bell County)<\/li>\n<li>76578 &mdash; Thrall<\/li>\n<li>78674 &mdash; Weir<\/li>\n<li>78615 &mdash; Coupland<\/li>\n<li>78717 &mdash; Brushy Creek (shares Round Rock&#8217;s post office)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sonterra, Santa Rita Ranch and Serenada have no ZIP code of their own; mail addressed there<br \/>\nis delivered under Leander&#8217;s or Liberty Hill&#8217;s postal codes depending on the exact<br \/>\nlocation.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Interstate 35 bisects Williamson County roughly north to south, and the highway also marks a<br \/>\nrough dividing line between two landscapes. West of I-35 the county rises into the eastern edge<br \/>\nof the Texas Hill Country, limestone terrain with thin soil and scattered cedar. East of I-35 it<br \/>\nflattens into the Blackland Prairie, dark, fertile clay soil that made the county&#8217;s early<br \/>\ncotton economy possible. Of the county&#8217;s 1,134 square miles, 1,118 are land and 16 are<br \/>\nwater, about 1.4 percent. The South San Gabriel and North San Gabriel Rivers join near<br \/>\nGeorgetown to form the San Gabriel River, the county&#8217;s principal waterway, dammed upstream<br \/>\nof Georgetown to form Lake Georgetown.<\/p>\n<p>Bell County lies to the north, Milam County to the northeast, Lee and Bastrop Counties to the<br \/>\nsoutheast, Travis County to the south, and Burnet County to the west. <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/bell-county-texas\/\">Bell County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/milam-county\/\">Milam County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/lee-county-texas\/\">Lee County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/bastrop-county\/\">Bastrop County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/travis-county\/\">Travis County<\/a> and <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/burnet-county\/\">Burnet County<\/a> all border Williamson<br \/>\ndirectly.<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Williamson County had a population of 609,017 at the 2020 census, and the latest estimate<br \/>\nputs the county near 752,827 residents, among the fastest-growing counts in Texas over that<br \/>\nspan. Round Rock and Georgetown are the two largest communities, together holding roughly a<br \/>\nthird of the county&#8217;s population, with Cedar Park and Leander close behind. Median<br \/>\nhousehold income runs $111,340, well above Texas&#8217;s statewide figure of $75,780. Population<br \/>\ndensity works out to about 545 people per square mile of land, a sharp contrast between the<br \/>\nbuilt-up I-35 corridor and the sparsely settled west and northeast.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Professional, scientific and technical services employs the most workers in the county, about<br \/>\n52,425 people, followed by retail trade at 41,351 and health care and social assistance at<br \/>\n40,580. Dell Technologies, headquartered in Round Rock since 1994, remains the county&#8217;s<br \/>\nbest-known employer, with several thousand workers on its Round Rock campus alongside major<br \/>\nregional operations for Cintas, IKEA and Emerson Process Management. Taylor is home to a $17<br \/>\nbillion Samsung semiconductor fabrication plant, announced in 2021 and expected to bring about<br \/>\n2,000 jobs to the county&#8217;s eastern side. Georgetown&#8217;s Southwestern University, founded<br \/>\nin 1840, is Texas&#8217;s oldest institution of higher education, and the city&#8217;s Sun City<br \/>\nTexas is one of the state&#8217;s largest age-restricted retirement communities. Georgetown&#8217;s<br \/>\nbiggest annual event is the Red Poppy Festival each April, marking the city&#8217;s status as the<br \/>\nofficial Red Poppy Capital of Texas.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>The Texas Legislature created Williamson County on March 13, 1848, from land previously part<br \/>\nof Milam County. It was named for Robert McAlpin Williamson, known as &#8220;Three-Legged<br \/>\nWillie&#8221; for a leg brace he wore after a childhood illness, a veteran of the Battle of San<br \/>\nJacinto and later a Republic of Texas judge and legislator. Georgetown was designated the county<br \/>\nseat the same year.<\/p>\n<p>The county holds two of the deadliest weather records in Texas history. In September 1921, a<br \/>\nstalled tropical storm dropped as much as 38.2 inches of rain over Thrall in 24 hours, a US<br \/>\nrainfall record at the time, and the resulting floods killed more than 200 people statewide. On<br \/>\nMay 27, 1997, an F5 tornado struck the Double Creek Estates subdivision near Jarrell, destroying<br \/>\nevery home in its path and killing 27 people, one of the deadliest single tornadoes in Texas<br \/>\nhistory.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>Interstate 35 crosses the county from south to north through Round Rock, Georgetown and<br \/>\nJarrell. US 79 and US 183 also cross the county, along with State Highways 29, 45, 95, 130 and<br \/>\n138 and several toll roads serving the Austin metro area.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Austin &mdash; about 25 miles south of Georgetown<\/li>\n<li>Temple &mdash; about 35 miles north<\/li>\n<li>Waco &mdash; about 65 miles north<\/li>\n<li>Bryan-College Station &mdash; about 60 miles east<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, about 30 miles south of Georgetown, is the nearest<br \/>\nmajor commercial airport. Georgetown Municipal Airport handles general aviation. Amtrak&#8217;s<br \/>\nTexas Eagle stops at the Taylor station on East First Street, the county&#8217;s only passenger<br \/>\nrail service, connecting to Austin, San Antonio, Dallas and Chicago.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Williamson County located?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt sits in Central Texas immediately north of Austin, split by Interstate 35 between Hill<br \/>\nCountry limestone to the west and Blackland Prairie to the east.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Williamson County?<\/strong><br \/>\n609,017 at the 2020 census, with an estimate near 752,827 by 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Williamson County?<\/strong><br \/>\n1,134 square miles (2,940 km2) in total, of which 1,118 square miles are land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Williamson County?<\/strong><br \/>\nGeorgetown, designated in 1848, is the county seat; Round Rock is the county&#8217;s largest<br \/>\ncity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many towns and cities are in Williamson County?<\/strong><br \/>\n14 incorporated cities and towns, four census-designated places, and roughly three dozen<br \/>\nunincorporated communities and crossroads with no government of their own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes does Williamson County use?<\/strong><br \/>\n78626 for Georgetown, 78664 for Round Rock, 78613 for Cedar Park, 78641 for Leander, and separate<br \/>\ncodes for each of the county&#8217;s smaller cities, listed above.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Williamson County known for?<\/strong><br \/>\nDell&#8217;s Round Rock headquarters, the new Samsung chip plant in Taylor, Southwestern<br \/>\nUniversity in Georgetown, and the 1921 Thrall flood and 1997 Jarrell tornado, two of the<br \/>\ndeadliest weather events in Texas history.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/texas\/\">Towns and villages in Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williamson County is a county in Texas, United States, immediately north of Austin along Interstate 35. It had a population of 609,017 at the 2020 census, an estimated 752,827 by 2025, and covers 1,118 square miles (2,900 km2) centred near 30\u00b039\u2032N 97\u00b035\u2032W. Georgetown is the county seat; its postal code is 78626. 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