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The Livingston handbook

Living in Livingston, TX: what to set up and who to call

Livingston runs its own electric utility, City of Livingston. The closest ER is CHI St. Lukes Health Memorial Livingston, 7.2 miles away.

I’m new in town

What to set up in Livingston, and who provides it. Tap an answer for the details and where they come from.

Home services

Power, water and internet

Who to call to start service at a new address in Livingston.

Electricity

Power comes from City of Livingston

City of Livingston (City of Livingston - (TX)), a municipal utility, serves 91.4% of Livingston residents.

Service territory: HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (map dated Aug 2023). Prices and customers: EIA-861, 2025.

Drinking water · reported to EPA

Water comes from City of Livingston water system

The City of Livingston water system supplies almost all of Livingston. It buys treated surface water (EPA lists Tra Livingston Regional Water Supply as seller) and serves 15,199 people in all.

No health-based violations reported to EPA in the five years to October 2026, like 83% of the 3,525 systems serving 10,001–50,000 people.

Lead, 90th percentile1.6 ppb
015 ppb action level20

The latest lead result on file, the 90th percentile of homes sampled in Jan 2022–Dec 2024, was 1.6 ppb, below the 15 ppb action level that applied. That’s higher than 59% of similar systems’ latest results.

The system’s full record: EPA ECHO report

EPA SDWIS via Envirofacts (violations pulled Oct 9, 2026) and ECHO (lead samples, 2026Q3); service area: EPA Community Water System Service Area Boundaries v3.0. Violations are counted by the start of their compliance period. TX1870002.

Internet

5 home internet providers serve Livingston

99% of 2,344 addresses can get 100/20 Mbps; 99% can get fiber.

ProviderTechnologyAddressesFastest (Mbps)
Highline InternetDSL, Fiber, Cable100%1,000/200
OptimumCable3%500/20
VerizonFixed wireless60%300/20
T-MobileFixed wireless20%100/20
AT&TFixed wireless10%25/3

FCC National Broadband Map, as of December 2025. Availability as providers report it, not speeds people get.

Trash & recycling

Trash day in Livingston depends on your street

Pickup days, the drop-off and recycling in Livingston, from the town’s own site.

How trash works hereTown’s haulerPiney Woods Sanitation picks up at the curb for every homecityoflivingston-tx.com
Trash dayBy addressDepends on your addressLook up your day on google.com →
Pickup

Your pickup week

Furniture, appliances and bulky itemsEvery week

From cityoflivingston-tx.com, the town’s official site, checked Oct 21, 2026; pages dated 2026-09-27, August 1, 2023. Rules change: the town’s page is the last word. .

Schools

Where your child goes to school

Public school districts and the school path by grade.

Livingston kids go to
PK–KPine Ridge PriLivingston Independent School District
1–53 elementary schoolsDepends on your address
6–8Livingston J HLivingston Independent School District
9–12Livingston H SLivingston Independent School District

Livingston is in Livingston Independent School District.

B−School gradeSee Schools →

U.S. Department of Education, NCES Common Core of Data, 2024–25. Enrollment rules and registration are the district’s.

Government & voting

Town hall and registering to vote

Who to call, and how to register.

Election office: FVAP local election office directory, updated Jun 2023; jurisdictions: EAC EAVS 2024. Registration rules and links: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.

ZIP codes & area codes

Livingston is in ZIP code 77351

ZIP codes where Livingston residents live, with the share of the town in each.

ZIPPost office nameShare of LivingstonZIP’s residents in Livingston
77351Livingston, TX100%15%

77399 is P.O. box or single-organization ZIP with no homes.

Area code936Wikidata

Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, by census block; post office names: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). ZIPs created since 2020 are missing.

Everyday places

Getting around, the ER and the library

One line each; the subject pages have the rest.

ER: CMS hospital data. Library: IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FY2024.

Questions about living in Livingston

Who supplies Livingston’s drinking water, and has it had violations?

The City of Livingston water system (EPA ID TX1870002). It reported no health-based violations to EPA in the five years to October 2026; 83% of systems its size had none. Its latest lead 90th percentile was 1.6 ppb (Jan 2022–Dec 2024), against a 15 ppb action level.

Who provides electricity in Livingston?

City of Livingston (City of Livingston - (TX)), a municipal utility.

What internet providers serve Livingston?

Highline Internet, Optimum, Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T (FCC, as of December 2025).

What ZIP codes are in Livingston?

77351. Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas.

What school district is Livingston in?

Livingston Independent School District.

How do I register to vote in Livingston?

Texas has no online registration; you can register in person until 30 days before Election Day or by mail (postmarked 30 days before). Elections here are run by the Polk County Early Voting Clerk. Check your registration at teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov.

Sources & dates

Every answer above names its source. Here they are with their dates.

  • Water: EPA SDWIS (Envirofacts, pulled Oct 9, 2026), ECHO SDWA 2026Q3, EPA CWS Service Area Boundaries v3.0.
  • Power: HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (map Aug 2023); EIA-861 final 2025.
  • Trash: Livingston’s own website (cityoflivingston-tx.com), read Oct 21, 2026, pickup and drop-off facts extracted and checked against the page they came from.
  • ZIP codes: Census 2020 ZCTA relationship files; GeoNames postal codes (CC BY 4.0).
  • Schools: NCES Common Core of Data, 2024–25.
  • Registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024 (read Oct 10, 2026). Official sites and area codes: Wikidata.
  • Election office: FVAP local election office directory (fetched Oct 10, 2026; each record dated), EAC EAVS 2024 jurisdictions; registration and lookup links from vote.gov’s state data, checked Oct 10, 2026.
  • Internet: FCC National Broadband Map, as of December 2025.