16,561
65%
$39,734
12.4%
America/Chicago
78570
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Mercedes, TX - History
We would like to provide the residents of Mercedes a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Mercedes Home page. The Mercedes Home page provides as much information as possible on Mercedes. Knowing Mercedes’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Mercedes’s Home page, you will also find Mercedes’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Mercedes has a population of 16561. 48.3% of Mercedes’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.7 are female. 47.8% of Mercedes is married and 64.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $76,663, and the average rent is $566. Household median income in Mercedes is $39,734, and the individual median income is $18,404. Mercedes’s Ethnic is the following: Hispanic(92.8%), White(79.6%), Other(12.2%), Multiple(7.9%), Black(0.1%), Native(0.1%).
Mercedes is located in southeastern Hidalgo County at 26°8′58″N 97°55′7″W (26.149315, –97.918675). It is bordered to the west by Weslaco and to the east, in Cameron County, by La Feria. The Interstate 2/U.S. Route 83 freeway passes through the northern side of Mercedes, leading west 21 miles (34 km) to McAllen and east 14 miles (23 km) to Harlingen.
Mercedes is 9 miles (14 km) north of the Progreso–Nuevo Progreso International Bridge over the Rio Grande, connecting Texas with the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. According to the United States Census Bureau, Mercedes has a total area of 11.5 square miles (29.8 km2), of which 11.4 square miles (29.6 km2) are land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km2), or 0.55%, are water.
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