{"id":207182,"date":"2026-03-16T19:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/207182\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T19:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:24:10","slug":"why-el-paso-is-rising-on-americas-most-desirable-cities-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/207182\/","title":{"rendered":"Why El Paso Is Rising On America&#8217;s Most Desirable Cities List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Paso just took San Antonio down a notch, (ok, several notches), and jumped up over 100 places on a list of 150 American cities people want to move to and 1st place could be next.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RentCafe<\/a> is a website that helps peeps find apartments, contact leasing agents, arrange tours, apply for rentals, etc.\u00a0They also compile search results and ratings for apartments and cities.<\/p>\n<p>Their latest report says folks are loving the 915. According to them, we jumped up a ton of spots and could be headed for #1 in terms of cities people want to move to.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio is now well below El Paso on the list of 150 at #56 while El Chuco is enjoying the view from 28th place.<\/p>\n<p>How Did El Paso Do In RentCafe Study?<\/p>\n<p>Not only did El Paso soar 115 spots year-over-year in the national rankings, but it also saw\u00a0the steepest increase in renter interest of any U.S. city. RentCafe says the jump was fueled by a 279 percent increase in favorited apartments in El Paso and a 53 percent increase in saved searches. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/article\/san-antonio-rent-ranking-22071053.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mysanantonio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What Other Texas Cities Made RentCafe&#8217;s List?<\/p>\n<p>While San Antonio&#8217;s ranking was well below El Paso&#8217;s, they actually rose quite a bit to get to 56, climbing 80 spots to get there. Several other Texas cities also made made it.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/klaq.com\/el-paso-best-winter-destination-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso IS A Great Winter City\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In between El Paso and San Antonio, Dallas landed at 35, Amarillo was number 46 and Houston was #48.\u00a0Austin was waaaaayyyyy down there at #114. I think Austin&#8217;s problem is probably all the politicians. Seriously, who wants to be surrounded by a bunch of them?<\/p>\n<p>9 Texas Cities In Texas The Fastest Growing Over The Last 3 YearsAccording to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2024\/07\/31\/texas-fastest-growing-cites-us\/74595428007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a>, over the past 3 years 9 of the 10 fastest growing cities in the USA are in Texas including numbers 1-7, and 9-10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/us105fm.com\/author\/noah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Noah\/Canva<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas Cities Around The World<\/p>\n<p>Texas Cities Named After Places Around The World<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/klaq.com\/author\/ggarza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dubba G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do You Know the Nicknames of These Popular Texas Cities?<\/p>\n<p>Space City, Big D, Bomb City, the Sun City&#8230;so many Texas cities have nicknames that you&#8217;ve heard of before &amp; we love them. Here are some nicknames of popular Texas cities &amp; towns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Daniel Paulus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El Paso just took San Antonio down a notch, (ok, several notches), and jumped up over 100 places&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,143,223,1631,1632],"class_list":["post-207182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-local-el-paso","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-texas-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}