{"id":247073,"date":"2026-04-13T03:30:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/247073\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T03:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:30:40","slug":"how-many-people-live-in-el-paso-county-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/247073\/","title":{"rendered":"How many people live in El Paso County, TX?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, there were about 875,800 people living in El Paso County, TX. That makes El Paso County the 10th-most populous county in Texas. It is home to 2.8% of people living in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-nowrap display-0\">876K<\/p>\n<p>population of El Paso County, TX (2024)<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-nowrap display-0\">2.8%<\/p>\n<p>County share of the Texas population (2024)<\/p>\n<p>About 875,800 people lived in El Paso County, TX in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-md\">Population estimates, 2000\u20132024<\/p>\n<p>What are El Paso County, TX\u2019s age demographics?<\/p>\n<p>About 120,300 El Paso County residents are aged 65 and older in 2024. That represents 13.7% of its population. For comparison, the age group represents 14% of Texas\u2019s population and 18% in the US overall.<\/p>\n<p>Another 220,900 El Paso County residents, or 25.2% of the population, were children under 18. For comparison, the age group represents 24.6% of Texas\u2019s population and 21.6% in the US overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"flex-1 gap-base-M text-left text-secondary-on-white transition-colors body-bold-lg md:inline-flex md:hover:text-text-highlight\">Subscribe for weekly, data-driven insights. No spin, just the facts. <\/p>\n<p>A lower share of El Paso County, TX&#8217;s population is aged 65 or older than the US as a whole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-md\">Population estimates by age group, (2024)<\/p>\n<p>What are El Paso County, TX\u2019s racial and ethnic demographics?<\/p>\n<p>Hispanic residents make up 82.8% of the El Paso County, TX population, higher than the national share of 20%.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, El Paso County\u2019s non-Hispanic white population accounts for 11%, below the 57.5% nationwide, and the non-Hispanic Black or African American population makes up 3.6% of the county, compared with 12.6% nationally.<\/p>\n<p>Racial and ethnic make up differ based on location. These figures reflect how people identified their race alone (not in combination with other races), and separate out Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, following Census reporting standards.<\/p>\n<p>El Paso County, TX has a higher share of a Hispanic population than Texas as a whole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-md\">Population estimates by race and ethnicity, (2024)<\/p>\n<p>The largest city or town in El Paso County, TX is El Paso with about 681,700 residents in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Cities and towns in El Paso County, TX ranked by population<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-L text-secondary body-lg\">Population (2024), includes only portions within county<\/p>\n<p>Cities and towns in El Paso County, TX ranked by populationCity or townPopulation1. 681,7232. 38,6423. 24,8024. 10,1285. 4,5426. 2,0137. 1,0698. <\/p>\n<p class=\"w-fit hyphens-manual break-words\">Balance of El Paso\u00a0County<\/p>\n<p>112,865Keep exploring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, there were about 875,800 people living in El Paso County, TX. That makes El Paso County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-247073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247073","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=247073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}