City shows little growth in 10 years

By LOUIE DIAZ
editor@sbnewspaper.com

Census data for the 2020 U.S. Census has been released and shows that San Benito experienced little growth over the past 10 years.
According to the 2020 census data, San Benito’s population increased to 24,861 from 24,250 In the 2010 census—an increase of 611 residents.
San Benito’s neighboring city, Harlingen, has grown by nearly 11 percent. The 2020 census data shows that Harlingen’s population grew to 71,829 from 64,849 in 2010.

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    • Susan Gonzalez on September 23, 2021 at 3:10 pm
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    Turn the old Stonewall Jackson hotel into affordable housing on the top 2 floors and small businesses on the ground level. The pot holes are terrible. You have beautiful resacas. Let vendors rent paddle boats and wind sails. Use the pavilion for music on Saturday nights. Have safe places for children. A splash park for the little ones. The skatepark has death threats and satanic sayings on the wall. Enforce the noice ordnances, my neighborhood can’t sleep because the police ignore the calls. Have seating and umbrellas on Sam Houston for visitors to have a coffee. Time to wake up and make this a place that people come to shop and want to stay and live.

    • James Dillion on September 22, 2021 at 5:12 pm
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    Why would anyone in their right mind want to move to a city that is one big barrio. Very few people in this town work; most live off the government. Drug dealing and family violence is a common thing in San Benny.

    • Lucy on September 16, 2021 at 7:11 pm
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    The reason the city hasn’t grown is because any money that comes in for infrastructure goes into the politicians pockets. The structure built on the resaca should have been a boardwalk now its a empty mess . the school for culinary should have been open and the city could have got money from government. It seems every good idea is shot down and whoever has made the decision s in the past two years need to be out of the picture.

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