
Bay City at a glance
What makes Bay City different: Bay City sits beside the South Texas Project nuclear generating station, the county's largest employer, and grew from an early-1900s rice-milling boom that once made it one of Texas's leading rice markets.
- Bay City population
- 17,730
- Matagorda County Medicare
- 7,951
- MA penetration (county)
- 53%
- Spanish-speaking market
- Yes — bilingual