
Palacios at a glance
What makes Palacios different: Nicknamed the 'City by the Sea,' Palacios harbors one of the largest commercial shrimping fleets on the Texas Gulf Coast, led in large part by a Vietnamese-American fishing community that settled here after 1976 and once elected Texas's first Vietnamese mayor.
- Palacios population
- 4,388
- Matagorda County Medicare
- 7,951
- MA penetration (county)
- 53%
- Spanish-speaking market
- Yes — bilingual