El Paso, Texas

El Paso population, 2020 to 2024

El Paso added 2,341 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +150. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 293rd; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so El Paso is 44.4 times that size.

El Paso covers 258.82 square miles of land and 0.53 of water, for 2,634 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so El Paso is denser than the typical town.

What county El Paso is in

All of El Paso's residents live in El Paso County, which had 875,784 residents in 2024. El Paso holds 77.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in El Paso

21 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap El Paso by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 79835, 79901, 79902, 79903, 79904, 79905, 79906, 79907, 79911, 79912, 79915, 79920, 79922, 79924, 79925, 79927, 79930, 79932, 79934, 79935, 79936. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where El Paso is

The Census internal point of El Paso is at 31.847800, -106.431100. Austin, the capital, is 525.6 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Phoenix, AZ (1,673,164 people), 349.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Las Cruces, NM, 39.1 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 1,187 m (3,894 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in El Paso

At 31.85° N, El Paso gets about 14 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 10 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the El Paso daylight page.

Places near El Paso

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Vinton, 12.3 miles away, with 2,013 people.