By the 2021 American Community Survey, there were 287,868 people residing in the Longview metropolitan area.

Other large Christian communities for the MSA were Methodists, Pentecostals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Mormons.

The Longview metropolitan area is serviced by East Texas Regional Airport.

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, the Longview station serves the Chicago to Los Angeles trains.

The return train, Los Angeles to Chicago, stops in Longview on Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday.

From the station, passengers can connect to Nacogdoches, Lufkin, Houston, and Galveston, as well as Shreveport, Louisiana, by motorcoach.

A proposal is in the works for a high-speed rail system from Dallas/Fort Worth to Shreveport along the I-20 corridor, bringing passenger rail service to that corridor for the first time since the Texas and Pacific's unnamed successor to the Louisiana Eagle in the late 1960s.