• Webb County’s population (221,478) is 95.1% Hispanic with 100% of households surveyed by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2005 speaking a language other than English at home.
• Webb County has the highest poverty rate in Texas for counties of comparable population, with nearly one in three families and 36.8% of all children living below the poverty level.
• The area ratio of physicians to population is 1092 to 1, compared to a state ratio of 661 to 1.
• Nearly 42% of Webb County residents have not graduated from high school.
• Texas has the highest rate of uninsured in the country and it is estimated that Webb County residents exceed the state figure by approximately 10%.

• Colonias are characterized by substandard housing, inadequate plumbing/sewage disposal systems and inadequate access to clean water.
• According to the Health and Human Services Commission and the Jaime Arizpe-Health and Human Services Commission, in Webb County there are approximately 60 colonias with 25,000 residents, 56% of whom live at or below the poverty level and half of which are without medical healthcare.
• Median annual income of families in colonias is estimated at $7,000-$11,000 per household. Typical family size is 5-6 people.The unemployment rate is 18% for colonia residents, compared with 11% for their border neighbors. (Sources: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and PBS)

Location of Webb county colonias