Harlingen ( HAR-lin-jin) is a city in Cameron County in the central region of the Rio Grande Valley of the southern part of the U.S. state of Texas, about 30 miles (48 km) from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The city covers more than 40 square miles (104 km2) and is the second-largest city in Cameron County, as well as the fourth-largest in the Rio Grande Valley. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 64,849, for a growth rate of 12.5% since the 2000 census. It is the city with the lowest cost of living in the United States.
Harlingen is a principal city of the Brownsville–Harlingen metropolitan area, which is part of the larger Brownsville-Harlingen-Raymondville combined statistical area, included in the Matamoros–Brownsville metropolitan area.
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Big Hispanic community, most people know each other or know there relatives. A close knit lower income community.
This is a Winter Texan town and we have a lot of activities and functions for Winter Texans. They have a lot of 55+ communities, fishing trips, South Padre Island trips and danced for our community.
This is a Winter Texan town so we have a large senior population of winter Texans and also senior who live here full time.
General livability, retirement community, economical. People are humble and live with simplicity.
Senior centers, easy living, retirement community