Setting Up Utilities in Livingston, Texas

Livingston sits outside Texas's deregulated electricity market, and inside the city limits the provider is the city itself: the Livingston Municipal Electric System has been municipally owned since 1922 and serves more than 3,400 customers. Wholesale power comes through the Sam Rayburn Municipal Power Agency, which Livingston shares with Jasper and Liberty, and the profits stay local, funding city services.

There's no Power to Choose comparison to run — you open one city utility account and electricity is on it. If you're moving outside the city limits, rural Polk County largely belongs to Sam Houston Electric Cooperative, also with no plan shopping.

Natural gas in Livingston comes from CenterPoint Energy, set up separately from the city account. Everything else is consolidated: water, sewer, and garbage are city services billed monthly alongside electricity, with applications taken at City Hall on West Church Street. That makes Livingston one of the simpler East Texas move-ins — most of the household basics are a single application.

Providers report home internet service inside Livingston town limits over fiber at 99% of homes, DSL over copper phone lines at 99% of homes, licensed fixed wireless at 74% of homes, and cable at 5% of homes, out of 3,626 homes and apartments, according to FCC National Broadband Map data as of December 31, 2025.

At least 99% of homes have a reported wired or fixed-wireless option of 100/20 Mbps or faster, and at least 99% have a reported gigabit (1,000/100 Mbps) option.

ITC Broadband Operating reports service to 100% of homes inside Livingston town limits, the widest reported coverage of any provider other than the satellite companies and the 5G home-internet carriers. Fiber is reported at 99% of homes.

Availability is address-specific: check your exact address on the FCC National Broadband Map before signing up.