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Camp Swift, Texas.

A community in Bastrop County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Bastrop County’s.

Living in Camp Swift, Bastrop County, Texas

Camp Swift, in Bastrop County, had 7,943 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $63,944 a year and half less, against $86,226 across Bastrop County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Bastrop County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, then shops.

People 7,943 in the 2020 census; median age 31.6
Household income $63,944 the median, give or take $11,244 · Bastrop County: $86,226
Unemployment 4.0% Bastrop County, August 2026; 4.1% a year before
Homes 72% lived in by their owners; 28% rented
  • 2,143households
  • 11%of adults have a degree
  • 15%below the poverty line
  • 39 mintypical commute
  • 4%work from home

What residents work in

  • Building trades18%
  • Shops (retail)17%
  • Schools, hospitals and social care17%
  • Manufacturing12%
  • Professional and business services8%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bastrop County had 23,427 jobs in 2025, 3.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 61° and 39°; warmest in August, 96° and 73° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 61° 39° F M A M J J A 96° 73° S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 61° and 39°; warmest in August, 96° and 73° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 61° 39° F M A M J J A 96° 73° S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 73°. About 36 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elgin North weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Bastrop County

  1. Space Exploration TechnologiesGuided missile and space vehicle manufacturing3,528
  2. Bastrop ISDSchool district1,578FTE
  3. Space Exploration TechnologiesSatellite communications equipment manufacturing1,486
  4. Elgin ISDSchool district791FTE
  5. H-E-BRetail736
  6. Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and SpaAuslp533
  7. TCS MechanicalProcess piping installation435
  8. H-E-BRetail332

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 50 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,740 people in all across the county; Camp Swift has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.

Natural hazards

  1. TornadoesVery high
  2. Inland floodingVery high
  3. Winter weatherRelatively high
  4. Heat wavesRelatively high
  5. LightningRelatively high
  6. Strong windRelatively high

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Camp Swift’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.

From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Bastrop County.