El Paso, TX
Census ZIP code profile for El Paso, TX — 24 ZIPs, total population 746,640. Median income, home value, education, commute, and demographics from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 2023 5-Year Estimates.
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El Paso, TX is covered by 24 USPS ZIP codes serving a combined population of 746,640 according to Census ACS 5-Year Estimates. U.S. cities rarely map cleanly to a single ZIP — El Paso splits its residents across 24 delivery areas, each with its own demographic and housing profile. The table below lists every ZIP by population, so you can see which neighborhoods carry the weight of the city total and which are smaller pockets of the same municipal boundary.
Aggregated across every ZIP in El Paso, the median household income averages $59,719 and per-capita income averages $29,806. Poverty rate runs at 20.5% and unemployment at 5.6%. On housing, the average median home value is $189,095 with median rent of $1,113 per month, and 55.3% of occupied units are owner-occupied. These are arithmetic averages across the 24 ZIPs — not population-weighted — so small ZIPs influence the headline numbers the same as large ones.
Use this city view to compare ZIPs inside El Paso against each other rather than hunting for a single "city average." The Affordability Dashboard linked below combines these Census inputs with HUD Fair Market Rents, FBI crime data, and Department of Labor childcare costs into a graded scorecard for El Paso as a whole, while individual ZIP pages show fine-grained household income, housing profile, education attainment, commute time, and nearby-ZIP benchmarks. Every field on this page is sourced directly from U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates — no estimates, no proprietary scoring, no editorial adjustment.
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ZIP Codes
746,640
Population
$59,719
Median Income
$189,095
Median Home Value
34.1
Median Age
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ZIP Codes in El Paso, TX
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| ZIP Code | Population | Density | Timezone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 79936 | 111,086 | 1,611 | America/Denver |
| 79912 | 77,161 | 1,258 | America/Denver |
| 79924 | 59,058 | 1,863 | America/Denver |
| 79907 | 55,132 | 1,563 | America/Denver |
| 79938 | 53,520 | 57 | America/Denver |
| 79928 | 49,544 | 184 | America/Denver |
| 79925 | 40,641 | 922 | America/Denver |
| 79915 | 40,057 | 1,735 | America/Denver |
| 79927 | 39,016 | 532 | America/Denver |
| 79904 | 35,060 | 1,544 | America/Denver |
| 79930 | 28,410 | 1,000 | America/Denver |
| 79905 | 26,036 | 1,551 | America/Denver |
| 79932 | 24,986 | 676 | America/Denver |
| 79902 | 21,236 | 1,250 | America/Denver |
| 79934 | 19,174 | 125 | America/Denver |
| 79903 | 18,451 | 2,335 | America/Denver |
| 79935 | 18,042 | 1,987 | America/Denver |
| 79901 | 11,328 | 1,989 | America/Denver |
| 79922 | 8,935 | 528 | America/Denver |
| 79906 | 4,374 | 407 | America/Denver |
| 79908 | 3,673 | 73 | America/Denver |
| 79911 | 1,565 | 97 | America/Denver |
| 79920 | 153 | 11,986 | America/Denver |
| 79942 | 2 | — | America/Chicago |
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Official Data Resources for El Paso
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates (2023). Verify with Census Bureau →
Source: HUD USPS Crosswalk (ZIP-to-county mapping) and Source: simplemaps.com (ZIP coordinates & timezones). Verify with HUD →
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