Cameron County

 

County Facts

Location: South Texas Rio Grande Valley. Bounded by: Hidalgo County to the west, Willacy County to the north, the Laguna Madre, Padre Island and the Gulf of Mexico to the east, and the Rio Grande River to the south. Cameron County comprises the entire Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The county seat is Brownsville, other principal communities are Port Isabel and the tourist-oriented South Padre Island.
People Map Stats Cameron County Texas
Population, 2000 335,227 20,851,820
Population, 2003 estimate 363,029 22,016,911
Population, net change, 1990 to 2000 102,909 5,030,576
Population, net change, 2000 to 2003 27,802 1,165,091
Population, percent change, 1990 to 2003 39.6% 29.6%
Population, percent change, 2000 to 2003 8.3% 5.6%
Population under 5 years old, 2000 31,744 1,624,628
Persons under 5 years old, percent, 2000 9.5% 7.8%
Population 65 years old and over, 2000 37,375 2,072,532
Persons 65 years old and over, percent, 2000 11.1% 9.9%
Persons under 18 years old, 2000 113,295 5,886,759
Persons under 18 years old, percent, 2000 33.8% 28.2%
Female persons, percent, 2000 52.1% 50.4%
White persons, 2000 (a) 269,139 14,799,505
Black or African American persons, 2000 (a) 1,617 2,404,566
American Indian and Alaska Native persons, 2000 (a) 1,471 118,362
Asian persons, 2000 (a) 1,607 562,319
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander persons, 2000 (a) 114 14,434
Persons reporting some other race, 2000 (a) 53,581 2,438,001
Persons reporting two or more races, 2000 7,698 514,633
Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, 2000 (b) 282,736 6,669,666
White persons, percent, 2000 (a) 80.3% 71.0%
Black or African American persons, percent, 2000 (a) 0.5% 11.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native persons, percent, 2000 (a) 0.4% 0.6%
Asian persons, percent, 2000 (a) 0.5% 2.7%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, percent, 2000 (a) Z 0.1%
Persons reporting some other race, percent, 2000 (a) 16.0% 11.7%
Persons reporting two or more races, percent, 2000 2.3% 2.5%
Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, percent, 2000 (b) 84.3% 32.0%
Births, 1997 7,641 333,974
Deaths, 1997 1,905 142,776
Infant deaths, 1997 31 2,150
Food Stamp program participants, 2002 76,605 1,582,547
TANF program participants , 2002 15,287 330,418
Family Violence,  Residents & Non-residents, 2002 1,241 72,646
Medicaid Eligibles, 2002    
                     Families & Children 59,515 1,388,046
                     Aged & Disabled 22,799 687,722
Long-Term Care Information, 2002    
                     Nursing Facilities 790 64,982
                      Medicaid Related 8,378 122,057
                     Non-Medicaid Related 173 15,802
Living in same house in 1995 and 2000, persons age 5+, 2000 177,736 9,545,367
Foreign born persons, 2000 85,723 2,899,642
Language other than English spoken at home, age 5+, 2000 239,872 6,010,753
Language other than English spoken at home, pct age 5+, 2000 79.0% 31.2%
High school graduates, persons age 25+, 2000 103,348 9,676,332
High school graduates, percent of persons age 25+, 2000 55.2% 75.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher, persons age 25+, 2000 24,985 2,972,293
Bachelor's degree or higher, pct of persons age 25+, 2000 13.4% 23.2%
Persons with a disability, age 5+, 2000 65,392 3,605,542
Mean travel time to work, workers age 16+ (minutes), 2000 20.7 25.4
Housing units, 2000 119,654 8,157,575
Homeownership rate, 2000 67.7% 63.8%
Median value of owner-occupied housing units, 2000 $53,000 $82,500
Households, 2000 97,267 7,393,354
Persons per household, 2000 3.40 2.74
Median household money income, 2000 $26,542 $39,090
Median household money income, 2002 26,052 41,376
Per capita money income, 2000 $10,960 $19,617
Per capita money income, 2002 $10,196 20,808
Median earnings (dollars)    
             Male, 2000 22,755 34,925
             Female, 2000 18,182 26,168
Persons below poverty, 2000 102,694 3,041,115
Persons below poverty, percent, 2000 30.2% 14.6%
People Under Age 18 in Poverty, 2000 46,436 1,237,626
People Under Age 18 in poverty, percent, 2000 40.3% 20.7%

 

Business MapStats Cameron County Texas
Personal income, 1997 ($1000) 4,095,144 459,585,481
Personal income per capita, 1997 12,857 23,707
Civilian labor force, 2002 141,240 10,750,664
Unemployment, 2002 14258 6,80,864
Unemployment rate, 2002 10.1 6.3
Full-time and part-time employment by place of work, 1997 124,152 11,238,887
Full-time and part-time employment, net change 1990 to 1997 25,375 1,952,213
Employment in government, 1997 23,445 1,631,335
Private nonfarm establishments, 1999 5,751 467,087
Change in private nonfarm establishments, 1990 to 1999 870 72,605
Private nonfarm establishments, percent change 1990-1999 17.8% 18.4%
Private nonfarm estabs with less than 20 employees, 1999 4,991 398,194
Total number of firms, 1997 18,545 1,525,972
Minority-owned firms, 1997 12,349 365,450
Minority-owned firms, percent of total, 1997 66.6% 23.9%
Women-owned firms, 1997 3,895 381,453
Women-owned firms, percent of total, 1997 21.0% 25.0%
Manufacturers shipments, 1997 ($1000) 1,732,776 297,657,003
Retail sales, 2002 ($1000) 1,554,055 122,156,540
Retail sales per capita, 1997 $5,993 $9,430
Housing units authorized by building permits, 2000 3,111 141,231
Value of new private housing units, 2000 194,471 15,418,421
Farm land, 1997 (acres) 368,528 131,308,286
Federal funds and grants, 2002 ($1000) 1,585,252

123,431,163

 

Geography Map Stats Cameron County Texas
Land area, 2000 (square miles) 906 261,797
Persons per square mile, 2000 370.1 79.6
Metropolitan Area Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito, TX MSA  

 

(a) Includes persons reporting only one race.
(b) Hispanics may be of any race, so also are included in applicable race categories.

Figures are in absolute numbers unless otherwise indicated.

FN: Footnote on this item for this area in place of data
NA: Not available
D: Suppressed to avoid disclosure of confidential information
X: Not applicable
S: Suppressed; does not meet publication standards
Z: Value greater than zero but less than half unit of measure shown
F: Fewer than 100 firms

Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Agricultural Statistics Service, National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau,
             State comptroller of Public Accounts, Texas State Data Center, Texas Workforce Commission.

 

Demographic and Socio-economic Profile: 2000 publications

Click on a file below to download Four page demographic and Socio-economic Profiles for the cities or CDP(Census Designated Place) within the county.

Arroyo Alto Arroyo Colarodo Estates Arroyo Gardens-La Tina Ranch Bayview Bixby
Bluetown-Iglesia Antigua Brownsville Cameron Park Chula Vista-Orason Combes
DelMar Heights ElCamino Angosto Encantada-Ranchito ElCalaboz Grand Acres Green Valley Farms
Harlingen Indian Lake La Feria La Feria North Lago
Laguna Heights Laguna Vista La Paloma Lasana Las Palmas-Jurez
Laureles Los Fresnos Los Indios Lozano Olmito
Palm Valley Port Isabel Primera Rancho Viejo Rangerville
Ratamosa Reid Hope King Rio Hondo San Benito San Pedro
Santa Maria Santa Rosa Solis South Parde Island South Point
Tierra Bonita Villa del Sol Villa Pancho Yznaga Cameron County

 

SF1 Data Download

Download standard variables within Summary File 1 in an Excel spreadsheet for various geographic levels:

Data tables provided in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (.xls) format.

 

Map Files

                     

Empowerment Zone                            Harlingen                           Brownsville Dot                       Brownsville Income              Edinburg Ring Analysis                Rio Grande Valley

Download TIGER/Line files in one zipped package that includes:

Data provoded as ArcView shape files(.shp)

 

External Links

Cameron County Government

Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council

More datasets from the US Government's Fed Stats

Handbook of Texas Online for Cameron County

Texas Highway Maps for Cameron County