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About El Paso
City in Texas, United StatesEl Paso (English: ; Spanish: [el ˈpaso] , lit. 'the route' or 'the pass') is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States. It is the 23rd-most populous city in the U.S., sixth-most populous city in Texas, and the most populous city in West Texas with a population of 678,815 at the 2020 census. The El Paso metropolitan area has an estimated 879,000 residents. El Paso stands on the Rio Grande across the Mexico–United States border from Ciudad Juárez, the most populous city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. On the U.S. side, the El Paso metropolitan area forms part of the larger El Paso–Las Cruces combined statistical area with Las Cruces, New Mexico with a population…
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Housing in El Paso
The typical El Paso home is worth about $239,000, up 2.2% in a year, 20% below the Texas typical home.
A seller's market
Safety in El Paso
Safety Grade C
El Paso reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 66% report less. Compared with places its own size, it does better than 74%.
Schools in El Paso
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The public schools El Paso’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 74% of Texas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within TX. Ratings are from neighbors.
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