San Antonio vs El Paso: which should you move to?
San Antonio or El Paso? Housing, rent, crime, climate, income, taxes and transit, side by side, from each city's own published figures. Written for someone deciding where to live, not for a ranking.
San Antonio
Both cities are in Texas and both were priced at Freddie Mac's 7.03% rate of 24 September 2026, and for once the prices are the same kind of measure: each is a county's MLS median with no split by property type, the San Antonio Board of REALTORS' $280,999 for Bexar County and the Texas Real Estate Research Center's $280,615 for El Paso County, $384 apart. The mortgage is the same to within $2 a month, so the difference is tax and insurance: mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $2,116 a month in San Antonio and $2,165 in El Paso, roughly 38% of San Antonio's median household income of $66,176 and 43% of El Paso's $59,932, the lowest of any city this site compares. Zillow's index keeps them close, $247,453 for the City of San Antonio and $238,475 for the City of El Paso. Neither levies an income tax and both charge 8.25% sales tax, but El Paso's five taxing units charge $5,845 on its median against $4,390 from San Antonio's seven, while its insurance budget is $70 a month lower. Crime favors El Paso on every line: 288 violent offenses per 100,000 against 532, 1,340 property offenses against 3,920, and about 3.8 homicides per 100,000 against 6.8. Choose San Antonio for a growing city, a job market three times the size, buses that carry five times as many riders, and a milder winter. Choose El Paso for the lowest crime of any US city here, the driest and sunniest climate, and a military and border economy of its own.
| Measure | San Antonio | El Paso | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| City population | 1,548,422 (2025) | 683,012 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
| Metro population | 2,813,140 (2025) | 881,291 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
| Five-year growth Growth is pressure on rents and roads as much as it is opportunity, so it is reported without a winner. | 8.0% (2020-2025) | 0.6% (2020-2025) | Not directly comparable |
What a home costs in each
The figures the two cities' rent-versus-buy and mortgage calculators run on, read from the same tables.
| Measure | San Antonio | El Paso | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benchmark home price MLS® HPI or equivalent benchmark. Lower is treated as the advantage, which is the buyer's view rather than the owner's. | $280,999 (August 2026) | $280,615 (August 2026) | El Paso |
| Detached house benchmark | $249,206 | $239,433 | El Paso |
| Apartment or condominium benchmark | $167,371 | $176,689 | San Antonio |
| Two-bedroom rent | $1,179/mo (median, September 2026) | $1,126/mo (median, September 2026) | El Paso |
| One-bedroom rent | $957/mo | $941/mo | El Paso |
| Two-bedroom rent against median income A year of two-bedroom rent as a share of the median household income below. A household paying the median rent out of the median income is a fiction, but it is the same fiction in both columns and it crosses currencies. | 21.4% of a year's income | 22.5% of a year's income | San Antonio |
| Mortgage payment on the benchmark, 20% down 30-year amortization on American monthly compounding, the convention in both. | $1,500/mo at 7.03% | $1,498/mo at 7.03% | El Paso |
| Price to household income Benchmark price divided by the median household income below. A ratio is comparable across currencies; the dollars are not. | 4.2× | 4.7× | San Antonio |
| Property tax on the benchmark home The effective rate on market value, which is what the two rates have in common and what the Advantage column is decided on; the bills are in each city's own dollars. | $4,389/yr (1.562%, 2025) | $5,845/yr (2.083%, 2025) | San Antonio |
| Transfer tax on the benchmark home Compared as a share of the price. Where the seller pays it, it is a cost of leaving rather than arriving. | None | None | Even |
| Rent control A cap protects a sitting tenant and does nothing for the next lease, so neither column is simply better. | Forbidden by state law | Forbidden by state law | Not directly comparable |
San Antonio: About 1.56% of value for a homesteaded owner, worked out on the $280,999 Bexar County median sale price. A house in the City of San Antonio and Northside ISD, the school district more of the city's residents live in than any other, is taxed by seven units for 2025, which add to 2.290174 per $100 before any exemption. Each takes its own homestead exemption off the appraised value first: Northside ISD the state's $140,000 and nothing more, the county's Road and Flood Control Fund the state's $3,000 for a flood control tax and a further 20%, the Alamo Community College District 1% with the state's $5,000 floor, the San Antonio River Authority 4%, and Bexar County, University Health and the City 20% each. So Bexar County levies 0.276331 per $100 on $224,799 after an exemption of $56,200, $621; Bexar County Road and Flood Control Fund levies 0.023668 per $100 on $221,799 after an exemption of $59,200, $52; University Health levies 0.276235 per $100 on $224,799 after an exemption of $56,200, $621; City of San Antonio levies 0.54159 per $100 on $224,799 after an exemption of $56,200, $1,217; Northside ISD levies 1.0049 per $100 on $140,999 after an exemption of $140,000, $1,417; Alamo Community College District levies 0.14915 per $100 on $275,999 after an exemption of $5,000, $412; San Antonio River Authority levies 0.0183 per $100 on $269,759 after an exemption of $11,240, $49. The seven come to $4,390 a year, 1.56% of the price. Without a homestead, as a landlord or a buyer who never files, the same house owes $6,435. In San Antonio ISD, the inner-city district, the school line is 1.1552 per $100 after an exemption of $145,000, and the same house comes to $4,544, 1.62%. The median is the county's, and a typical home inside the city is cheaper: on $247,453, Zillow's August 2026 value for a typical City of San Antonio home, the Northside ISD stack comes to $3,697, 1.49%, lower because the school district's flat exemption is a larger share of a cheaper house. These are the 2025 rates, the bills due by 31 January 2026. When these figures were retrieved the Bexar County Tax Assessor-Collector's official table ran to 2025, with the units' 2026 rate calculation worksheets posted but no 2026 official rates, so the calculators stay on 2025 until all seven are published. El Paso: About 2.08% of value for a homesteaded owner, worked out on the $280,615 El Paso County median sale price. A house in the City of El Paso and El Paso ISD, the school district more of the city's residents live in than any other, is taxed by five units for 2025, which add to 2.643693 per $100 before any exemption. Three take a homestead exemption off the appraised value first and two take none: El Paso ISD takes the state's $140,000 and nothing more, El Paso County and the City a flat $5,000 each, and El Paso Community College and University Medical Center of El Paso, the county's hospital district, nothing at all. So El Paso County levies 0.458889 per $100 on $275,615 after an exemption of $5,000, $1,265; City of El Paso levies 0.759649 per $100 on $275,615 after an exemption of $5,000, $2,094; El Paso ISD levies 1.0807 per $100 on $140,615 after an exemption of $140,000, $1,520; El Paso Community College levies 0.103563 per $100 on the full $280,615, with no homestead exemption, $291; University Medical Center of El Paso levies 0.240892 per $100 on the full $280,615, with no homestead exemption, $676. The five come to $5,845 a year, 2.08% of the price. Without a homestead, as a landlord or a buyer who never files, the same house owes $7,419. In Ysleta ISD, the district the second most residents live in, the school line is 1.2005 per $100 after an exemption of $196,123, the state's plus the district's own 20%, and the same house comes to $5,339, 1.90%; in Socorro ISD, at 0.9389, it comes to $5,645, 2.01%. The median is the county's, and a typical home inside the city is cheaper: on $238,475, Zillow's August 2026 value for a typical City of El Paso home, the El Paso ISD stack comes to $4,731, 1.98%, lower because the school district's flat exemption is a larger share of a cheaper house. These are the 2025 rates, the bills due by 31 January 2026. The City has since adopted 0.798 for 2026, but when these figures were retrieved the City Tax Office's table still ran to 2025, so the calculators stay on 2025 until all five units' 2026 rates are published.
How safe each city is, by the numbers it publishes
Police-reported figures for the most recent year each force or statistics agency has released. Rates describe a whole city or metro area, and the spread between neighbourhoods inside one city is usually wider than the gap between the two cities.
| Measure | San Antonio | El Paso | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crime Severity Index Statistics Canada's weighted index for the metropolitan area, where 100 is Canada in 2006. American cities have no equivalent series. | Not published | Not published | Not directly comparable |
| Violent crime per 100,000 | 532 (2025) | 288 (2025) | El Paso |
| Property crime per 100,000 | 3,920 (2025) | 1,340 (2025) | El Paso |
| Homicides Counts, not rates, and a single year in a small city moves a long way on chance alone. What each figure covers is under the table. | 106 (2025) | 26 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
On the FBI's definitions, violent offenses in San Antonio went from 11,219 in 2021 to a peak of 13,105 in 2022, then 10,440 in 2023, 9,173 in 2024 and 8,241 in 2025, a 10% drop in the last year and 37% below the peak, and property offenses from 61,559 to 74,787 and a peak of 80,789 in 2023, then 70,657 and 60,693, 25% below the peak. Motor vehicle theft drove most of that swing: 8,912 in 2021, 19,090 in 2023 and 9,527 in 2025, half the peak. In 2025 the CDE shows aggravated assaults down 9% (6,037 to 5,506), robberies down 17% (1,656 to 1,380), rapes down 8% (1,354 to 1,249) and murders down 16% (126 to 106). SAPD's own January-to-November comparison points the same way: all reported crime down 13% (143,529 to 124,314), crimes against property down 18.1%, motor vehicle theft down 26.5% and robberies down 16.4%, while crimes against society rose 15.4%, which the chief put down to more drug arrests. A University of Texas at San Antonio evaluation of the city's Violent Crime Reduction Plan found violent street crime fell 22% in treated hot spots in 2024 against 9.6% citywide (San Antonio Report). The 2025 CDE counts were read on 30 September 2026 from a feed last refreshed on 15 September and can still be revised.
What the rates cover: Computed: 8,241 violent offenses (murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault) in the FBI Crime Data Explorer's summarized data for the San Antonio Police Department (ORI TXSPD0000) in calendar 2025, divided by the 1,548,422 Vintage 2025 city population. On the CDE's own agency population of 1,549,306 the rate is also 532. No SAPD total on this definition was found in anything fetched. Its year-end report to the City Council's Public Safety Committee in December 2025 counted NIBRS crimes against persons, which include simple assaults, and put them at 28,361 for January through November 2025, down 9% from 31,179 in the same months of 2024 (KSAT).
Homicides: 106 murders and nonnegligent manslaughters in 2025 in the FBI CDE, against 126 in 2024, about 6.8 per 100,000 on the city population. SAPD's own count for January through November 2025 was 99 against 119 in the same months of 2024, a drop of nearly 17% (KSAT); a full-year SAPD figure was not found in anything fetched. The high point in the CDE series since 2021 is 233, in 2022, a year whose count includes the 53 migrants found dead in a tractor-trailer on the Southwest Side (San Antonio Report).
On the FBI's definitions, violent offenses in El Paso went from 1,794 in 2021 to 2,109 in 2022, 2,134 in 2023 and a peak of 2,170 in 2024, then 1,969 in 2025, a 9% drop in the last year that still leaves the count 10% above 2021. Property offenses went from 8,882 to 9,440 and a peak of 11,061 in 2023, then 10,246 and 9,152, 17% below the peak. Motor vehicle theft drove much of the swing: 994 in 2021, 2,314 in 2023 and 1,805 in 2025. In 2025 the CDE shows aggravated assaults down 10% (1,628 to 1,467), robberies down 11% (255 to 226), rapes down 6% (267 to 250), burglaries down 19% (959 to 773) and larcenies down 11%, while murders (20 to 26) and arsons (69 to 78) rose. EPPD's own count of the eight offenses, as reported to the state, fell 11% in 2025, but El Paso Matters found it was the only one of Texas's 25 largest law enforcement agencies to report more serious crime in 2025 than in 2021, after rises in 2022 and 2023. The 2025 CDE counts were read on 30 September 2026 from a feed last refreshed on 15 September and can still be revised.
What the rates cover: Computed: 1,969 violent offenses (murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault) in the FBI Crime Data Explorer's summarized data for the El Paso Police Department (ORI TX0710200) in calendar 2025, divided by the 683,012 Vintage 2025 city population. On the CDE's own agency population of 682,310 the rate is 289. That is the lowest of any US city this site compares, against 375 in Fort Worth, 532 in San Antonio, 577 in Dallas and 890 in Houston, and below Miami's 359. EPPD's own figures, as reported to the Texas Department of Public Safety and summarized by El Paso Matters, put violent crime 10% lower in 2025 than in 2024, in line with the CDE's 9% drop.
Homicides: 26 murders and nonnegligent manslaughters in 2025 in the FBI CDE, against 20 in 2024, about 3.8 per 100,000 on the city population, half Fort Worth's rate and a third of Houston's. El Paso Matters, reading the department's report to the state, also has murder rising in 2025, one of only two of the eight tracked offenses that did, with arson. The CDE series is small and uneven: 33 in 2021, 22 in 2022, 37 in 2023, 20 in 2024 and 26 in 2025.
Winters, summers and what the weather can do to a house
| Measure | San Antonio | El Paso | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| January mean | 11.2 °C | 8.1 °C | Not directly comparable |
| July mean | 29.3 °C | 29.1 °C | Not directly comparable |
| Precipitation a year | 822 mm | 223 mm | Not directly comparable |
| Snowfall a year | 1 cm | 7 cm | Not directly comparable |
| Sunshine a year | 2,629 hours | 3,763 hours | El Paso |
NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for San Antonio International Airport (station USW00012921), inside the city about 8 miles north of downtown and the station where the National Weather Service keeps San Antonio's official record: January mean 52.2F, July mean 84.8F, annual mean 69.6F, 32.38 in of precipitation, 0.2 in of snow. August is the warmest month at 85.5F, with a mean high of 96.0F; July's mean high is 94.9F and January's mean low is 41.0F. May (4.40 in) and September (3.88 in) are the wettest months and February (1.74 in) the driest; the little snow the normals record falls in February and December. The normals count 122.4 days a year at 90F or above, 17.7 at 100F or above and 14.0 nights at or below freezing. Converted here to 11.2 C, 29.3 C, 822 mm and 0.5 cm. That January mean is the same as Austin's at Camp Mabry and the precipitation is the least of the Texas cities this site compares, 99 mm less than Austin's and 495 mm less than Houston's. Sunshine hours are the older 1961-1990 NCDC means (2,629 hours, 60% of possible, and 105 clear days), since the 1991-2020 normals do not include sunshine.
Hazards: Flash flooding is the defining hazard. San Antonio sits on the Balcones Escarpment in what a National Weather Service meteorologist calls Flash Flood Alley, where shallow soil over limestone sends heavy rain straight into the creeks. On 17 and 18 October 1998 a nearly stationary storm complex, fed by moisture from two Eastern Pacific hurricanes, dropped 11.26 in (286 mm) on San Antonio International on the 17th, still the station's wettest calendar day, and 13.35 in (339 mm) in 24 hours, and October 1998's 18.07 in (459 mm) remains the wettest month on record there. Across South Texas that flood killed 31 people, and NOAA puts the damage at $942 million ($1.81 billion in 2024 dollars); the San Antonio Report counts 11 of the dead in San Antonio. On 25 May 2013, over Memorial Day weekend, 9.87 in (251 mm) fell at the airport, the station's second-wettest day, and a gauge on Olmos Creek caught 15.31 in in five hours and about 17 in by the end of the day; US 281 stayed under water for days, crews made more than 235 rescues and at least two people died. The deadliest single day came on 12 June 2025, when more than 7 in fell in three hours over the Beitel Creek watershed on the Northeast Side and the airport recorded a record 3.9 in (99 mm) in one hour and 6.11 in (155 mm) for the day: the creek rose by as much as a foot every ten minutes, and 13 people died, 11 of them along Beitel Creek, where at least 15 vehicles were swept off the Loop 410 frontage road. Two more were found dead after a storm flooded Salado Creek over Labor Day weekend, and over the July Fourth weekend between the two 117 people died in nearby Kerr County and 135 across the state. Heat is the constant. The normals count 122.4 days a year at or above 90F, about the same as Austin's 122.8 and more than Houston's 111.3 or Dallas's 107.5, and 17.7 at or above 100F (37.8 C), between Houston's 7.0 and Dallas's 22.4. The airport's record is 75 days of 100F in 2023, including 23 in a row from 30 July to 21 August, well ahead of 59 in 2009 and 58 in 2022, and its highest reading is 111F (43.9 C), on 5 September 2000; 2026 had 24 such days through 22 September. Cold is rare and badly handled. Winter Storm Uri left 6.2 in (15.7 cm) of snow at the airport from 14 to 18 February 2021 and a low of 9F (-12.8 C) on the 15th, the coldest there since 6F (-14.4 C) on 23 December 1989; the station's record low is 0F (-17.8 C), on 31 January 1949, and its biggest snowfall 13.2 in (33.5 cm), on 12 January 1985. ERCOT cut power across the state grid from 15 to 18 February and about 4.5 million customers lost it at the worst; Texas counted 246 deaths from the storm, 16 of them in Bexar County, and CPS Energy, the city's municipal electric and gas utility, reported $675 million to $850 million of losses on natural gas purchases and $175 million to $250 million on purchased power.
NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for El Paso International Airport (station USW00023044), inside the city about 7 miles east-northeast of downtown and the station where the National Weather Service keeps El Paso's official record: January mean 46.5F, July mean 84.4F, annual mean 66.2F, 8.78 in of precipitation, 2.8 in of snow. July is the warmest month by half a degree over June (83.9F), but June has the hottest afternoons, with a mean high of 97.1F before the monsoon arrives, against July's 95.8F; December (46.1F) is a shade colder than January, whose mean low is 34.5F. More than half the year's rain falls from July through September (1.58, 1.67 and 1.52 in), and April (0.17 in) is the driest month; the snow falls from November to February, most of it in December (1.3 in). The normals count 116.8 days a year at 90F or above, 26.5 at 100F or above and 42.0 nights at or below freezing. Converted here to 8.1 C, 29.1 C, 223 mm and 7.1 cm. That is the least precipitation of any city this site compares, a quarter of Dallas's and a sixth of Houston's, and the most freezing nights of the Texas cities; only Austin, at 28.7, has more 100F days. Sunshine is the 1961-1990 NOAA monthly series as Wikipedia's climate table gives it, 3,762.5 hours a year, rounded here to 3,763 and the most of any city this site compares; Current Results, from the same NCDC comparative data, puts El Paso at 84% of possible sunshine and 193 clear days a year but lists no hours for it, and the 1991-2020 normals do not include sunshine.
Hazards: Heat is the constant, and it is getting worse. The normals count 116.8 days a year at or above 90F and 26.5 at or above 100F (37.8 C). The airport's record is 70 days of 100F in 2023, including 44 in a row from 16 June to 29 July, well ahead of 62 in 1994 and 57 in 2020, and its highest reading is 114F (45.6 C), on 30 June 1994. The summer of 2026 set a different record: 108 days in a row at 90F or above, from 6 June to 21 September, the longest run on record and two days longer than 2015's, with 52 days at 100F or above by 27 September, and El Paso Matters reports the year on track to be the city's warmest. Flash flooding is the danger the dry climate hides. The monsoon brings most of the year's rain in a few storms, and water runs off the Franklin Mountains through the arroyos into the city. From 27 July to 4 August 2006 a series of storms dropped 6.84 in (174 mm) on the airport, 2.84 in (72 mm) of it on 1 August, its second-wettest day since 1938, while 3 to almost 10 in fell over the western side of the city that morning and early afternoon; the National Weather Service calls it the worst flooding in the area's recorded history. The Rio Grande rose to its highest level since 1912, 1,200 people were evacuated from Sunland Park, New Mexico, all of Vinton was evacuated, and the airport's 15.01 in (381 mm) from July through September made it the wettest monsoon on record. The NWS puts the region's damage at about $450 million; El Paso Water counts more than $200 million to homes and businesses and $115 million to the city's stormwater system, and the City Council created a stormwater utility, run by El Paso Water on monthly fees, in 2008. Wind and dust are the spring hazard, from March to early May, when strong winds lift sand and dust off the desert and cut visibility (Wikipedia). On 8 December 2009 gusts near 80 mph (129 km/h) tore roofs off buildings in eastern El Paso and closed Transmountain Road and US 54, and blowing dust cut visibility on I-10 toward Las Cruces to under half a mile (NWS). Drought is a water supply problem. El Paso Water gets nearly half its supply from the Rio Grande, stored upstream in New Mexico's Elephant Butte Reservoir, and says it has not received a full allocation in about a decade; the rest comes from the Hueco and Mesilla aquifers and the Kay Bailey Hutchison Desalination Plant, built with Fort Bliss, which can make 27.5 million gallons a day from brackish groundwater and which the utility calls the largest inland desalination plant in the world. Elephant Butte fell to 26,777 acre-feet on 30 July 2026, 1.4% of its capacity and the least water in it since October 1971 on Texas Water Development Board figures, and stood at 2.4% on 30 September. The utility's Pure Water Center, a $290 million plant that will turn up to 10 million gallons a day of treated wastewater into drinking water piped straight into the distribution system, one of the first of its kind in the country, is under construction and due to open in 2029. Cold is rare, and the grid matters. El Paso Electric is on the grid that covers the western US, not ERCOT's, as the utility itself points out, so El Paso sat outside the Texas grid that failed during Winter Storm Uri: the airport recorded 3.2 in (8.1 cm) of snow on 14 February 2021 and a low of 14F (-10.0 C) on the 14th and 15th, and the Texas Department of State Health Services, which counted 246 deaths from the storm across the state, recorded none in El Paso County. The city's own crisis came ten years earlier. From 1 to 4 February 2011 temperatures stayed below freezing for 78 hours, the high on the 2nd was 15F (-9.4 C) and the low on the 3rd was 1F (-17.2 C); all eight of El Paso Electric's primary generators failed in the cold, forcing rolling blackouts, and frozen pipes and failed pumps left parts of El Paso without water for days (NWS, Wikipedia). The station's record low is -8F (-22.2 C), on 11 January 1962.
What people earn and what the government takes
| Measure | San Antonio | El Paso | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $66,176 USD (2024) | $59,932 USD (2024) | San Antonio |
| Unemployment rate | 4.7% (July 2026) | 4.8% (July 2026) | San Antonio |
| Sales tax | 8.25% | 8.25% | Even |
| Top marginal income tax Federal plus provincial or state. The American figure leaves out payroll taxes and the cost of health insurance, both of which a Canadian household covers through the tax it pays here. | 37% | 37% | Even |
| Income tax on $100,000, single filer San Antonio and El Paso sit under one province's or state's income tax, so the two cells describe the same tax and any difference between them is one of method rather than of tax. The two cells agree to the dollar here. The Advantage column is Even for that reason, and the essay below says the same thing. | $13,449 USD | $13,449 USD | Even |
BLS counted 1,191,700 nonfarm jobs in the San Antonio-New Braunfels MSA in August 2026 (not seasonally adjusted, preliminary), up 6,100 or 0.5% on the year. Professional and business services grew fastest (+4.8%, to 162,400), then construction (+2.9%) and trade, transportation and utilities (+2.8%), while information (-7.7%), government (-3.1%, to 181,800) and private education and health services (-2.0%, to 180,300) shrank; federal government employment fell 6.7%, from 38,700 to 36,100. Trade, transportation and utilities is the largest sector at 216,300 jobs. The seasonally adjusted series (SMS48417000000000001) was 1,195,900 in August 2026, 0.8% above August 2025. BLS's federal line is far smaller than the base itself: the Texas Comptroller counts 74,713 direct employees at Joint Base San Antonio in 2025, 33,256 of them active-duty military, and estimates the base supported 223,349 Texas jobs and $33.9 billion of the state's GDP ($53.5 billion of output). Greater SATX, the regional economic development group, calls it the largest joint base in the US military. UT San Antonio, formed when UTSA and UT Health San Antonio merged in September 2025, calls health care and biosciences, a $44.1 billion sector, the city's largest industry. H-E-B, USAA, Valero Energy and iHeartMedia are all headquartered in the city.
Main sectors: Military and federal installations: Joint Base San Antonio (Fort Sam Houston with Brooke Army Medical Center, Lackland Air Force Base with the Air Force's basic military training and the 16th Air Force, and Randolph Air Force Base with the Air Education and Training Command), Health care and biosciences (the South Texas Medical Center, University Health, UT Health San Antonio and UT San Antonio, Methodist Hospital, the Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital), Tourism and hospitality (Visit San Antonio counts $23.4 billion of economic impact and more than 150,000 jobs in 2024), Trade, transportation and utilities, the metro's largest sector by payroll jobs (H-E-B, headquartered in the city; CPS Energy; San Antonio International Airport's cargo), Financial services, energy and media headquarters (USAA, Valero Energy, iHeartMedia).
Property tax is the local levy that matters. Tax Foundation puts Texas's effective property tax rate on owner-occupied homes at 1.40%, and school districts must exempt $140,000 of a homestead's value from their tax. On 17 September 2026 the City Council voted 7 to 4, with Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones in the minority, to raise the city's own rate for the first time since 1992, as part of a plan to close a $158 million deficit over two years that also includes cuts, fee increases and a second rate increase planned for fiscal 2028. The fiscal 2027 rate is 56.288 cents per $100 of taxable value: 35.138 cents for maintenance and operations, two cents more than before, and 21.150 cents for debt service. The two outlets that gave a figure for the average homestead disagree: KSAT put it at about $49 more a year on a taxable value of $231,356, and the San Antonio Report at $35.43 on a $234,000 home. Senior and disabled homeowners with a tax freeze, about 47% of the city's homesteads, are unaffected (KSAT). The county, school district, University Health, San Antonio River Authority, Alamo Colleges and other levies on the same bill belong to the housing layer.
BLS counted 363,500 nonfarm jobs in the El Paso MSA in August 2026 (not seasonally adjusted, preliminary), up 3,200 or 0.9% on the year. Professional and business services grew fastest (+3.5%, to 44,500), then leisure and hospitality (+2.5%, to 44,600), construction and mining (+1.8%) and manufacturing (+1.1%, to 18,400), while information (-4.5%) and local government (-1.3%, to 47,000) shrank and private education and health services held at 56,000. Unlike in Fort Worth and San Antonio, federal employment rose, 3.0% to 13,800; BLS's payroll count does not include active-duty soldiers. Trade, transportation and utilities is the largest sector at 80,200 jobs and government the second at 70,900. The seasonally adjusted series (SMS48213400000000001) was 365,200 in August 2026, 1.2% above August 2025. The Texas Comptroller counts 41,527 direct employees at Fort Bliss in 2025 and estimates the base supported 121,220 Texas jobs and $17.3 billion of the state's GDP ($29.1 billion of output). The border is the other half of the economy: in 2025 the Bureau of Transportation Statistics counted 13.1 million personal vehicle passengers and 5.4 million pedestrians entering at the El Paso port, second on the Mexican border only to San Ysidro for both, and 641,729 trucks at Ysleta-Zaragoza, fourth after Laredo, Otay Mesa and Hidalgo. The largest new investment is Meta's AI data center in Northeast El Paso, a $10 billion project as El Paso Matters described it in May 2026, which the city expects to become its largest property taxpayer, at about $15 million a year once fully built in 2028, with 300 permanent jobs (El Paso Matters).
Main sectors: Military and federal government: Fort Bliss, home of the 1st Armored Division, the largest installation in the Army's Forces Command, with 41,527 direct employees in 2025 (30,288 of them active-duty), and the federal border agencies (US Border Patrol's El Paso Sector, Customs and Border Protection, the El Paso Intelligence Center), Health care (University Medical Center of El Paso and the El Paso County Hospital District, Texas Tech Health El Paso, William Beaumont Army Medical Center), Cross-border trade, transportation and logistics with Ciudad Juárez and its export factories, the metro's largest sector by payroll jobs (80,200 in August 2026), The ports of entry: the downtown Paso del Norte, Stanton Street and Bridge of the Americas crossings, Ysleta-Zaragoza and Tornillo, which together took 842,659 trucks and 28.8 million people into the US in 2025, Education and local government (UTEP, El Paso Community College and the El Paso, Ysleta and Socorro school districts); government is the metro's second-largest sector at 70,900 jobs.
Property tax is the local levy that matters. Tax Foundation puts Texas's effective property tax rate on owner-occupied homes at 1.40%, and school districts must exempt $140,000 of a homestead's value from their tax. On 18 August 2026 a divided City Council adopted a $658.6 million general fund budget for fiscal 2027 and a rate of 79.8 cents per $100 of taxable value, both 6 to 2, which El Paso Matters says will raise the city's bill on the average-value home by about $105; the council had adopted the no-new-revenue rate every year before 2025, and the city manager's proposal at the voter-approval rate would have added $132. The county adopted its no-new-revenue rate of 45.1 cents, about $41 more on a $229,637 home, and the hospital district proposed its no-new-revenue rate of 23.7 cents. El Paso's rates are among the highest of Texas's big counties, but its home values are among the lowest: an El Paso Matters analysis of Tax Foundation and Census data found the county's median property tax bill took 6.1% of median household income in 2024, about the same share as in most large Texas counties and less than in Travis County, where the median bill was 111% higher. The county, school district, hospital district, community college and other levies on the same bill belong to the housing layer.
Whether you need a car
| Measure | San Antonio | El Paso | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| System | VIA buses on 95 routes (three Primo rapid lines, 21 frequent and 70 standard) with 511 buses and 5,984 stops, VIA Link on-demand rideshare zones and paratransit (138 vehicles), across San Antonio, 13 smaller cities and unincorporated Bexar County; there is no rail, and the Green Line, the first of two Advanced Rapid Transit bus lines, is under construction | Sun Metro, a department of the City of El Paso that also serves the rest of El Paso County: 39 fixed bus routes with a fleet of 171 buses running on compressed natural gas, four Brio rapid bus lines (Mesa, opened 2014; Alameda and Dyer, 2018; Montana, 2022) covering about 51.5 miles with 98 stations, running in mixed traffic with signal priority, the fare-free El Paso Streetcar on a 4.8-mile downtown and UTEP loop with 27 stops, using restored 1937 PCC cars (opened November 2018), and LIFT paratransit | Not directly comparable |
| Commute by public transit | 2.4% (2024) | 0.9% (2024) | San Antonio |
| Walk or cycle to work | 2.5% (2024) | 1.6% (2024) | San Antonio |
| Airport | San Antonio International Airport (SAT), about 8 miles north of downtown and with no airline hub, handled 10,740,694 passengers in 2025, 3.2% fewer than the record 11,094,278 of 2024, and a record 274,847,470 pounds of air cargo, up 15.7%, per the airport's year-end statistics report, which puts the passenger decline down to economic uncertainty and the federal government shutdown. The airport is building Terminal C, which it says will add more than 850,000 square feet and up to 18 domestic and international gates by mid-2028. | El Paso International Airport (ELP), owned by the city about 7 miles east-northeast of downtown and with no airline hub, handled 3,838,968 passengers in 2025, 4.9% fewer than the record 4,038,530 of 2024, and 83,183 tons of freight, 11.3% fewer, per the airport's December 2025 activity report; Southwest Airlines carried 54% of December's passengers and American 24%. On the night of 10 February 2026 the FAA closed most of El Paso's airspace to civil aviation, citing special security reasons, and lifted the order less than eight hours later; 14 passenger flights were canceled (Wikipedia). | Not directly comparable |
VIA carried 30,665,700 unlinked trips in 2025 and about 105,800 a weekday in the second quarter of 2026 (APTA ridership reports, as cited by Wikipedia; APTA's PDFs refused the fetcher), against 78.0 million for Houston's METRO and 52.8 million for DART. Bexar County voters created VIA in 1977 with a half-cent sales tax, and a city-only Advanced Transportation District approved in 2004 adds more. The VIA Rapid Green Line will run along San Pedro Avenue from San Antonio International Airport through downtown to Brooks Transit Center, with dedicated bus lanes and new signal-protected crossings. It is a $481 million project, $268 million of it a federal grant the Federal Transit Administration committed in December 2024; construction began in the summer of 2025, work is active along San Pedro, and the FTA's revenue service date is April 2028. The east-west Silver Line, from the Frost Bank Center area to General McMullen Drive, is in design and projected for late 2030.
Sun Metro carried 6,186,400 unlinked trips in 2025, 5,575,200 of them by bus and 396,200 on the streetcar, and about 20,200 a weekday in the second quarter of 2026, 1,400 of them on the streetcar (APTA ridership reports, as cited by Wikipedia; APTA's PDFs refused the fetcher). That is slightly more than Trinity Metro's 6,180,600 in Fort Worth, a city half again as large, and a fifth of VIA's 30.7 million in San Antonio. The system is paid for in part by a half-cent city sales tax levied since 1988, and the standard fare is $1.50. The Brio lines, branded buses with curbside stations and pre-boarding ticket machines, run less often than that branding suggests: Sun Metro's current schedules give the Mesa line every 15 minutes at weekday peaks and 20 otherwise, the Alameda and Dyer lines 20 and 25, and the Montana line 30 to 35; the Montana line, 17 miles to the Upper East Side, is the longest. The streetcar runs every 15 minutes, until 11 pm on Fridays and Saturdays, and charges no fare. Its cars ran on El Paso's last line, the international loop through Ciudad Juárez, from 1950 until it closed in 1973 (Wikipedia).
Health care, schools and what each city is like
Health care
Care is paid for through employer or marketplace insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and Texas is one of the ten states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (KFF, August 2026). It had the highest uninsured rate of any state in 2024: 16.7%, or 5,152,427 of 30,799,312 people, against 8.2% nationally and 12.0% in Georgia, the next highest, on the ACS 2024 1-year estimates. The City of San Antonio's rate was 18.0% (268,665 of 1,496,335), Bexar County's 15.8% and the metro's 14.5%. The South Texas Medical Center on the Northwest Side covers more than 900 acres around the medical school that opened there in 1968 and holds the Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Medical Center and a dozen other hospitals; a UTSA study cited by the San Antonio Report in 2022 put its annual economic effect on the region at $24.5 billion. University Health, the Bexar County Hospital District, runs University Hospital there, a 716-bed teaching hospital and a Level I trauma center for adults and children, and the 300-bed Women's & Children's Hospital that opened on the same campus in 2023; it plans to open two community hospitals elsewhere in the county in 2027. Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston has about 8,500 staff. UT Health San Antonio, the clinical arm of UT San Antonio, counts more than 2.5 million patient visits a year. This file did not verify a wait time figure for primary or specialist care.
Education
No single school district covers the city. Northside ISD, the largest in the San Antonio area with about 98,000 students, faced a $35 million deficit in March 2026, down from nearly $108 million, and its superintendent said closures were possible but not expected for 2026-27 (KSAT). North East ISD lost about 2,000 students in 2025-26, now serves about 55,000, closed three campuses the year before and will accept students from anywhere in the region from 2026-27 (San Antonio Report). San Antonio ISD has closed 25 schools in the last decade and in March 2026 voted to close Rhodes Middle School and hand three other campuses to a charter operator, Third Future Schools, citing falling enrollment and state accountability ratings. Districts say they cannot yet tell how many students the state's new education savings accounts, which help pay private school tuition from 2026-27, will draw away. UT San Antonio, formed on 2 September 2025 when UTSA merged with UT Health San Antonio, has about 40,000 students and 17,000 employees and calls itself the third-largest public research university in Texas by research spending, and the Alamo Colleges District runs five community colleges.
Living there
San Antonio is the second city of Texas and the seventh-largest in the country, and unlike Dallas it is still growing inside its own limits: it added 14,359 residents in 2024-25, the third-largest gain of any US city, and 8.0% since 2020. The military has shaped it for three centuries, and Joint Base San Antonio, with 74,713 direct employees, sits beside the South Texas Medical Center and a tourism trade Visit San Antonio values at $23.4 billion as the pillars of the economy. Household income is lower than in Dallas or Austin, and 18.0% of residents have no health insurance. VIA runs buses only, 2.4% of workers take them and 68.2% drive alone, and the Green Line along San Pedro Avenue, the city's first rapid transit line, is due in April 2028. Summers are long and dry rather than humid, with 122 days a year at 90F or above and 75 at 100F in 2023, and water is the killer: the creeks rise within minutes, and a single night of rain on 12 June 2025 drowned 13 people. The open questions are fiscal and civic: the council raised the city's property tax rate for the first time since 1992 on a 7 to 4 vote the mayor opposed, with a second increase planned, and the big school districts are shrinking, closing campuses and competing for each other's students as the state's education savings accounts begin.
Health care
Care is paid for through employer or marketplace insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and Texas is one of the ten states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (KFF). It had the highest uninsured rate of any state in 2024: 16.7%, or 5,152,427 of 30,799,312 people, against 8.2% nationally and 12.0% in Georgia, the next highest, on the ACS 2024 1-year estimates. The City of El Paso's rate was 20.8% (138,104 of 665,393), El Paso County's 21.5% and the metro's 21.5%. University Medical Center of El Paso, run by the El Paso County Hospital District, is the county's only public hospital and the region's only Level I trauma center; it has 394 licensed beds and in fiscal 2024 counted 97,326 emergency visits and more than a million outpatient visits. The district, which also runs El Paso Children's Hospital, has budgeted $136 million of uncompensated care for fiscal 2027 on a $2.1 billion budget, citing the end of the enhanced ACA subsidies, and voters approved a $397 million bond for it in 2024 (El Paso Matters). UMC is the teaching hospital of Texas Tech Health El Paso, formerly Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, independent since 2013, whose Paul L. Foster School of Medicine was the first four-year medical school on the US-Mexico border; it also runs schools of nursing, biomedical sciences and dental medicine, the last of which took its first class in 2021, and is planning the Fox Cancer Center, which it calls the first comprehensive cancer center in far West Texas. William Beaumont Army Medical Center, the Army hospital at Fort Bliss, moved into a new 1.1-million-square-foot complex on East Fort Bliss in July 2021 and runs the emergency department for Northeast El Paso (Wikipedia). This file did not verify a wait time figure for primary or specialist care.
Education
Four school districts cover parts of the city, El Paso ISD, Ysleta ISD, Socorro ISD and Canutillo ISD, and nine serve the county (Wikipedia). All of them are shrinking: El Paso County lost almost 12,000 residents aged 5 to 18 between 2020 and 2025, 6.6%, and the three largest districts had about 124,000 students in 2025-26, 13% fewer than seven years earlier (El Paso Matters). El Paso ISD lost almost 1,900 students in 2025-26 against a budgeted 1,000, ran a $52.8 million deficit, and on 4 June 2026 its board declared financial exigency to cut about 410 jobs, after which two trustees resigned; it has postponed a bond election to May 2027. Ysleta ISD adopted a budget that nearly empties its savings. The University of Texas at El Paso, an R1 research university, has 26,297 students, 85% of them Hispanic and half the first in their families to attend college, and calls itself the leading Hispanic-serving university in the country. El Paso Community College, with five campuses, enrolled 25,563 credit students in fall 2024, 81.7% of them Hispanic (EPCC Fact Book). Texas Tech Health El Paso trains doctors, nurses and dentists beside UMC.
Living there
El Paso is the only city this site compares on the Mexican border, the only one in the desert, and the only Texas city here on Mountain time, an hour behind the rest of the state, half of a metropolis whose larger half, Ciudad Juárez, is across the Rio Grande: 28.8 million people crossed into the US at its three ports in 2025. It is also the one Texas city here that is not growing. It lost 2,219 residents in 2024-25, the most of any city in the state, and has grown 0.6% since 2020, as births fall, fewer people move up from Mexico and young adults leave for better pay; household income, at $59,932, is the lowest of any city this site compares, and 20.8% of residents have no health insurance. Fort Bliss and the border agencies anchor the economy, with health care, trade and the schools. Its violent crime rate, 288 per 100,000 on the FBI's counts for 2025, is the lowest of any US city here, with 26 homicides. It is built for the car, with 0.9% of workers on a bus network that runs four Brio rapid lines and a free downtown streetcar. The climate is the driest and sunniest here, with 8.78 in of rain a year, and the hottest summers are recent ones: 70 days at 100F in 2023 and 108 straight days at 90F or above in 2026. The open questions are water and money: the Rio Grande reservoir that supplies nearly half the city's water fell to 1.4% of capacity in July 2026, a divided council raised the city's property tax rate in August, El Paso ISD declared financial exigency in June as enrollment falls, and the city is counting on Meta's data center, due to become its largest property taxpayer, to take some of the load off homeowners.
Where each city wins, and where it loses
Both cities are in Texas and both were priced at Freddie Mac's 7.03% rate for 24 September 2026, so the rate and the state's rules are the same on both sides: no transfer or mortgage tax, no rent control, and for a homestead a $140,000 school exemption and a 10% annual cap on appraised value. The prices are the same kind of measure, a county's MLS median with no split by property type, because no city median could be found for either. San Antonio's is the San Antonio Board of REALTORS' median sale price for Bexar County, $280,999 in August 2026 on 2,068 sales, 3.1% below a year earlier; the city holds 72% of the county's residents. El Paso's is the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M's median for El Paso County, $280,615 on 786 sales, 4.3% above a year earlier, with single-family houses, condominiums and townhouses counted together; the city holds 78% of the county's residents. Zillow's index, which models every home in each city, stood at $247,453 for the City of San Antonio and $238,475 for the City of El Paso in August, 2.2% lower on the year in San Antonio and 2.2% higher in El Paso, so the two markets are about level and moving in opposite directions. At 20% down, San Antonio's $224,799 loan costs about $1,500 a month and El Paso's $224,492 loan about $1,498. Property tax is $4,390 a year in San Antonio and $5,845 in El Paso with a homestead, and insurance is budgeted at $250 and $180 a month, both estimates between published averages and neither with a flood policy in it. The three lines come to about $2,116 and $2,165, roughly 38% and 43% of each city's 2024 median household income; of the $49 gap, El Paso pays about $121 a month more in property tax and $70 less in insurance. The rents are on the same series, Apartment List's September medians for each city, and are close: a one-bedroom at $957 in San Antonio and $941 in El Paso, a two-bedroom $1,179 and $1,126. Zillow's observed rent index runs the other way, $1,386 and $1,519 in August.
The definitions match: both cities' figures are the FBI's summarized counts for 2025, divided by Census Vintage 2025 populations and read on 30 September 2026. El Paso is the lower on every line. San Antonio's 8,241 violent offenses come to 532 per 100,000 against El Paso's 288 on 1,969, the lowest rate of any US city this site compares, and its 60,693 property offenses to 3,920 against 1,340 on 9,152, also the lowest. Homicide runs at not quite twice El Paso's rate in San Antonio: 106, about 6.8 per 100,000, against 26, about 3.8. The directions differ. San Antonio's violent offenses dropped 10% in 2025 and are 37% below the 2022 peak of 13,105, and its murders fell from 126 to 106. El Paso's dropped 9%, from a peak of 2,170 in 2024 to 1,969, which still leaves them 10% above 2021, and its murders rose from 20 to 26, in a small series that has run between 20 and 37 since 2021. Motor vehicle theft drove the property swing in both, from 19,090 in 2023 to 9,527 in San Antonio and from 2,314 to 1,805 in El Paso. El Paso Matters found the El Paso Police Department the only one of Texas's 25 largest law enforcement agencies to report more serious crime in 2025 than in 2021, which is a statement about the trend and not the level. Both sets of counts come from a feed last refreshed on 15 September and can still be revised.
Both are hot and dry by Texas standards, and El Paso is the more of both. July averages 29.3 C at San Antonio International and 29.1 C at El Paso International, and San Antonio's normals count 122.4 days a year at or above 32.2 C (90F) against 116.8, but El Paso's count 26.5 at or above 37.8 C (100F) against 17.7. The worst recent summers are close: San Antonio International had 75 days of 100F in 2023 and El Paso International 70, and in 2026 El Paso ran 108 days in a row at 90F or above, the longest on its record. Winter is where they part. January averages 11.2 C in San Antonio and 8.1 C in El Paso, with 14.0 nights a year at or below freezing against 42.0, and snow is 0.5 cm against 7.1 cm. San Antonio gets 822 mm of rain and El Paso 223 mm, the least of any city this site compares, more than half of it from July through September; El Paso's 3,763 hours of sunshine are the most here, against 2,629. The killer in both is the flash flood. San Antonio's comes off the Balcones Escarpment, where shallow soil over limestone sends rain straight into the creeks: 11.26 in (286 mm) fell at the airport on 17 October 1998, and on 12 June 2025 a storm over the Northeast Side killed 13 people, 11 of them along Beitel Creek. El Paso's comes with the summer monsoon off the Franklin Mountains through the arroyos: from 27 July to 4 August 2006 storms dropped 6.84 in (174 mm) on the airport, in what the National Weather Service calls the worst flooding in the area's recorded history, with about $450 million of damage across the region. El Paso adds spring wind and dust, and a drought that is a water supply problem: Elephant Butte, the Rio Grande reservoir that holds nearly half the city's supply, fell to 1.4% of capacity on 30 July 2026. Winter Storm Uri showed the two grids apart. It took San Antonio International to 9F (-12.8 C) and El Paso International to 14F (-10.0 C) in February 2021, but El Paso Electric is on the western grid, not ERCOT's, so El Paso sat outside the state grid that failed; Texas counted 16 of its 246 deaths in Bexar County and none in El Paso County. El Paso had its own failure in February 2011, when all eight of El Paso Electric's primary generators failed in the cold and rolling blackouts followed.
Both are military cities, and San Antonio's labor market is about three times El Paso's. BLS counted 1,191,700 nonfarm jobs around San Antonio and 363,500 around El Paso in August 2026, 0.5% and 0.9% more than a year earlier. Unemployment is on the same unadjusted basis in both, 4.7% around San Antonio and 4.8% around El Paso in July, against 4.4% nationally. The Texas Comptroller counts 74,713 direct employees at Joint Base San Antonio in 2025, 33,256 of them on active duty, and 41,527 at Fort Bliss, home of the 1st Armored Division, 30,288 on active duty. Federal payroll jobs, which leave the soldiers out, moved in opposite directions: down 6.7% around San Antonio on the year and up 3.0% around El Paso, to 13,800. San Antonio's other anchors are health care and biosciences, which UT San Antonio calls a $44.1 billion sector and the city's largest industry, tourism, and the headquarters of H-E-B, USAA, Valero Energy and iHeartMedia. El Paso's other anchor is the border. Across the Rio Grande is Ciudad Juárez, with 1,512,450 people at Mexico's 2020 census, and 28.8 million people and 842,659 trucks entered the US at El Paso's ports in 2025; trade, transportation and utilities is the largest sector in both metros, 216,300 jobs around San Antonio and 80,200 around El Paso. BLS put the average private weekly wage in El Paso County at $906 in the third quarter of 2025, 38% below the Texas figure; the San Antonio profile carries no wage figure. City median household income was $66,176 in San Antonio and $59,932 in El Paso in 2024, and the metros' $78,112 and $59,834. The state's taxes are shared: no income tax, so $100,000 pays $13,449 in both for 2025, and 8.25% sales tax, of which 0.875% goes to transit in San Antonio and half a cent in El Paso, which also pays half a cent to the county. The property tax stacks differ in their exemptions more than their rates. San Antonio's seven units add to 2.290174 per $100 and El Paso's five to 2.643693, the highest of the Texas cities here. Neither school district, Northside ISD or El Paso ISD, grants anything beyond the state's $140,000, but in San Antonio Bexar County, University Health and the City take 20% off a homestead, where El Paso County and the City take a flat $5,000 each and El Paso Community College and University Medical Center, the county's hospital district, take nothing. So on two medians $384 apart the bills are $4,390 and $5,845, about 1.56% and 2.08%, and the El Paso County median would pay $4,382 on San Antonio's stack.
Neither city has much transit, and San Antonio's buses carry about five times El Paso's whole system. In 2024, 2.4% of San Antonio workers took transit and 2.5% walked or cycled, against 0.9% and 1.6% in El Paso, the second-lowest transit share of any city this site compares; 68.2% of San Antonio's workers drove alone against 75.3%, and 11.1% and 7.4% worked from home. VIA carried 30,665,700 trips in 2025, all by bus. Sun Metro, a department of the City of El Paso, carried 6,186,400, 396,200 of them on the fare-free El Paso Streetcar, a 4.8-mile loop through downtown and UTEP on restored 1937 PCC cars. El Paso already runs branded rapid buses, of a lighter kind than the line San Antonio is building. Its four Brio lines cover about 51.5 miles with curbside stations and signal priority, but they run in mixed traffic and less often than the name suggests: every 15 minutes at weekday peaks on the Mesa line and 20 otherwise, and 20 to 35 minutes on the other three. San Antonio's first rapid line, the VIA Rapid Green Line, a $481 million project with a $268 million federal grant, will run on dedicated bus lanes along San Pedro Avenue from the airport through downtown and is due in April 2028. Transit has levied its half cent since 1988 in El Paso, and VIA's since 1978. Neither airport is a hub. San Antonio International handled 10,740,694 passengers in 2025 and is building Terminal C, with up to 18 gates, for mid-2028; El Paso International, owned by the city, handled 3,838,968, 4.9% fewer than its record of 2024, and Southwest carried 54% of December's passengers.
Coverage is Texas's problem in both cities, and the larger one in El Paso. The state has not expanded Medicaid and had the highest uninsured rate of any state in 2024, 16.7%; the City of San Antonio's rate was 18.0% and the City of El Paso's 20.8%, and Bexar County's 15.8% against El Paso County's 21.5%. Each county's public hospital is a line on the tax bill. University Health runs University Hospital in the South Texas Medical Center, 716 beds and a Level I trauma center for adults and children, and Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston has about 8,500 staff. The El Paso County Hospital District runs University Medical Center of El Paso, 394 licensed beds and the region's only Level I trauma center, and has budgeted $136 million of uncompensated care for fiscal 2027, citing the end of the enhanced ACA subsidies; UMC is the teaching hospital of Texas Tech Health El Paso, whose Paul L. Foster School of Medicine was the first four-year medical school on the US-Mexico border, and William Beaumont Army Medical Center at Fort Bliss runs the emergency department for Northeast El Paso. Neither profile verified a wait time. The schools are shrinking in both, and no single district covers either city. Northside ISD, the largest in the San Antonio area with about 98,000 students, faced a $35 million deficit in March 2026, and San Antonio ISD has closed 25 schools in a decade. El Paso ISD, the district more of El Paso's residents live in than any other, lost almost 1,900 students in 2025-26, ran a $52.8 million deficit and on 4 June 2026 declared financial exigency to cut about 410 jobs; the county's three largest districts had about 124,000 students, 13% fewer than seven years earlier. UT San Antonio, formed by a merger with UT Health San Antonio in September 2025, has about 40,000 students; the University of Texas at El Paso, an R1 research university, has 26,297, 85% of them Hispanic.
What people underestimate is how differently the two are growing. San Antonio added 14,359 residents in 2024-25, the third-largest gain of any US city, and has grown 8.0% since 2020, to 1,548,422; El Paso lost 2,219, the largest numeric loss of any Texas city that year, and has grown 0.6%, the slowest of the Texas cities this site compares, to 683,012, as births fall, fewer people move up from Mexico and young adults leave for work elsewhere. Bexar County still gained 2,505 more residents from the rest of the country than it lost; El Paso County has lost residents to domestic migration in every year since 2020, 23,600 in 2021-25. El Paso also keeps Mountain time, an hour behind San Antonio. So $4,390 and $5,845 are bills for an address inside each city and one school district, Northside ISD and El Paso ISD, and the edges add charges neither figure includes. In San Antonio's extraterritorial jurisdiction Bexar County has created 24 special improvement districts for new subdivisions, 22 of them levying 0.54159 per $100. East of Loop 375, El Paso's newest subdivisions are in Paseo del Este, eleven municipal utility districts in the City's extraterritorial jurisdiction levying 0.6237 to 0.8018 per $100 for 2025 on top of the county's, the college's, the hospital district's and Socorro ISD's. Both councils raised their own rates in 2026, both divided. San Antonio's, on 17 September by 7 to 4, took the City's from 54.159 cents to 56.288 for fiscal 2027, its first increase since 1992, to help close a $158 million deficit over two years, with a second increase planned. El Paso's, on 18 August by 6 to 2, set the City's at 79.8 cents, above the 75.9649 in the $5,845, which El Paso Matters says will add about $105 a year on the average-value home, and the city is counting on Meta's data center, due to become its largest property taxpayer, to take some of that load off homeowners.
Better here
- Property tax on the Bexar County median is $4,390 a year with a homestead, against $5,845 on the El Paso County median $384 below it, an effective 1.56% against 2.08%.
- The metro's 1,191,700 nonfarm jobs are about three times El Paso's 363,500, and H-E-B, USAA, Valero Energy and iHeartMedia have their headquarters in the city.
- The city added 14,359 residents in 2024-25, the third-largest gain of any US city, and has grown 8.0% since 2020, where El Paso lost 2,219 and has grown 0.6%.
- VIA carried 30,665,700 trips in 2025 against Sun Metro's 6,186,400, and 2.4% of workers took transit against 0.9%.
- January averages 11.2 C with 14.0 nights a year at or below freezing, against 8.1 C and 42.0 in El Paso, and the normals count 17.7 days at or above 37.8 C (100F) against 26.5.
- City median household income was $66,176 in 2024 against $59,932, so the carry takes about 38% of it against 43%, and the City of San Antonio's uninsured rate was 18.0% against 20.8%.
Worse here
- Violent crime ran 532 per 100,000 in 2025 against 288 in El Paso, and property crime 3,920 against 1,340, on the same FBI counts.
- There were 106 homicides in 2025, about 6.8 per 100,000, against 26 in El Paso at about 3.8.
- Home insurance is budgeted at $250 a month against $180 in El Paso, and flash floods come within minutes: 13 people died on 12 June 2025, 11 of them along Beitel Creek.
- Federal payroll jobs fell 6.7% around San Antonio in the year to August 2026, where they rose 3.0% around El Paso.
- Texas counted 16 deaths in Bexar County from Winter Storm Uri in 2021 while ERCOT cut power, and none in El Paso County, which is on the western grid.
- The City's own property tax rate rose for the first time since 1992 on a 7 to 4 vote in September 2026, with a second increase planned for fiscal 2028.
Choose San Antonio if
- you are posted to Joint Base San Antonio, or work in military medicine, health care, insurance at USAA, or tourism
- you want a growing city and a job market three times the size
- you want an 11.2 C January and fewer 100F days, and would take more days at 90F for it
- you want to get around by bus, with a rapid transit line on dedicated lanes due in 2028
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Better here
- Violent crime ran 288 per 100,000 in 2025, the lowest of any US city this site compares, against 532 in San Antonio, and property crime 1,340, also the lowest, against 3,920.
- There were 26 homicides in 2025, about 3.8 per 100,000, against 106 in San Antonio at about 6.8.
- The climate is the driest and sunniest of any city here: 223 mm of rain a year against 822 mm, and 3,763 hours of sunshine against 2,629.
- Home insurance is budgeted at $180 a month against $250, and a two-bedroom rents for $1,126 against $1,179 on the same series.
- El Paso Electric is on the western grid, not ERCOT's, and Texas counted no deaths in El Paso County from Winter Storm Uri against 16 in Bexar County.
- Four Brio rapid bus lines, in mixed traffic with signal priority, and a fare-free downtown streetcar are already running, where San Antonio's first rapid line is due in 2028.
Worse here
- The five taxing units add to 2.643693 per $100, the highest of the Texas cities here, and charge $5,845 a year on the county median, where San Antonio's seven would charge $4,382 on the same house.
- City median household income was $59,932 in 2024, the lowest of any city this site compares, and BLS put the county's average private weekly wage at $906, 38% below the Texas figure.
- The city lost 2,219 residents in 2024-25, the largest numeric loss of any Texas city, and El Paso ISD declared financial exigency in June 2026 to cut about 410 jobs.
- January averages 8.1 C with 42.0 nights a year at or below freezing, the most of the Texas cities, and the normals count 26.5 days at or above 37.8 C (100F).
- Elephant Butte, the Rio Grande reservoir that holds nearly half the city's water supply, fell to 1.4% of capacity on 30 July 2026.
- The City of El Paso's uninsured rate was 20.8% in 2024 against 18.0% in San Antonio, and El Paso County's 21.5% against Bexar County's 15.8%.
Choose El Paso if
- you are posted to Fort Bliss, or work for the border agencies, in cross-border trade and logistics, or at UMC, Texas Tech Health El Paso or UTEP
- you want the lowest violent and property crime rates of any US city here, on figures built the same way
- you want dry heat, the most sunshine of any city here and no ERCOT, and would take a colder winter for it
- you would pay about $49 a month more to own a county-median home in the safer city
The El Paso guide · Neighborhoods · El Paso rent vs buy · El Paso mortgage calculator
San Antonio or El Paso, in short
Is San Antonio or El Paso cheaper to live in?
About level, to own, and San Antonio against local pay. Both cities were priced at the same 7.03% mortgage rate of 24 September 2026, and both prices are county MLS medians: the San Antonio Board of REALTORS' $280,999 for Bexar County and the Texas Real Estate Research Center's $280,615 for El Paso County, in August 2026. Zillow's index for each city, $247,453 against $238,475, keeps them close. At 20% down the mortgage is about $1,500 against $1,498. Property tax is $4,390 a year against $5,845 with a homestead, and insurance $250 a month against $180, so the three lines come to about $2,116 in San Antonio and $2,165 in El Paso, roughly 38% and 43% of each city's median household income, $66,176 and $59,932. Renting is close on the same series, Apartment List's September medians: $1,179 for a two-bedroom in San Antonio against $1,126. Income tax is nil in both and sales tax 8.25% in both.
Is San Antonio or El Paso safer?
El Paso, on every line, on figures built the same way. Both are the FBI's summarized counts for 2025 divided by Census estimates, read on 30 September 2026. Violent offenses ran 532 per 100,000 in San Antonio against 288 in El Paso, the lowest of any US city this site compares, and property offenses 3,920 against 1,340. Homicide was 106 in San Antonio, about 6.8 per 100,000, against 26 in El Paso, about 3.8. The trends run differently. San Antonio's violent offenses dropped 10% in 2025 and its murders fell from 126 to 106; El Paso's violent offenses dropped 9%, but its murders rose from 20 to 26 and its violent count is still 10% above 2021. Every rate here is a count divided by a Census estimate rather than a published rate, and the counts can still be revised.
Which has the better weather, San Antonio or El Paso?
They are hot in the same months and differ in winter and rain. The July means are 29.3 C and 29.1 C, and San Antonio has more days at 90F or above, 122.4 a year against 116.8, but El Paso more of the hottest, 26.5 at or above 37.8 C (100F) against 17.7. El Paso is the colder in winter, 8.1 C in January against 11.2 C with 42.0 freezing nights against 14.0, and far the drier, 223 mm of rain against 822 mm, with the most sunshine of any city this site compares. Both flood suddenly: San Antonio's creeks rise within minutes off the Balcones Escarpment, and El Paso's arroyos carry the summer monsoon off the Franklin Mountains. El Paso adds spring wind and dust and a thin water supply, and it sits on the western grid, outside the ERCOT system that failed in Winter Storm Uri. Home insurance is budgeted at $250 a month in San Antonio and $180 in El Paso, and in both flood cover is a separate policy.
Why does El Paso's house pay more property tax than San Antonio's at the same price?
Because El Paso's five units levy more and exempt less. The state frame is the same: a $140,000 homestead exemption from the school levy and a 10% annual cap on a homestead's appraised value that starts after purchase. San Antonio's seven units add to 2.290174 per $100 and El Paso's five to 2.643693, the highest of the Texas cities here, and in both the school district, Northside ISD at 1.0049 and El Paso ISD at 1.0807, grants the state's $140,000 and nothing more. In San Antonio, Bexar County, University Health and the City take 20% off a homestead, the county's Road and Flood Control Fund $3,000 and 20%, the River Authority 4% and the college district 1% with a $5,000 floor. In El Paso, El Paso County and the City take a flat $5,000 each, and El Paso Community College and University Medical Center, the county's hospital district, nothing at all. So the Bexar County median of $280,999 pays $4,390 and the El Paso County median of $280,615 pays $5,845, and on the same $280,615 house San Antonio's stack would charge $4,382. Without a homestead the two medians would owe $6,435 and $7,419. Both cities raised their own rates for the coming year in 2026.
Where the figures come from
Housing figures are the ones behind each city's calculators, dated on those pages. The rest are listed here with the date they were retrieved. See the methodology for how facts, estimates and opinion are kept apart.
- Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places in Texas: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025 (SUB-EST2025) · US Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: City population, Five-year growth, Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Homicides, Character
- Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places of 50,000 or More (all states, SUB-EST2025) · US Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: City population, Character
- Annual Resident Population Estimates and Components of Change for Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas and Their Counties: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025 (CBSA-EST2025-ALLDATA) · US Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: Metro population, Five-year growth
- Crime Data Explorer summarized agency data, San Antonio Police Department (TXSPD0000): violent crime, property crime, homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft and arson, 2021-2025 · FBI · retrieved Supports: Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Homicides, Crime trend
- Crime in San Antonio dropped 13% in 2025, SAPD report says · KSAT · retrieved Supports: Violent crime rate, Homicides, Crime trend
- San Antonio sees 20% drop in homicides in 2025, new report shows · San Antonio Report · retrieved Supports: Homicides, Crime trend
- US Climate Normals 1991-2020, station USW00012921 San Antonio International Airport (Access Data Service) · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: January mean, July mean, Annual precipitation, Annual snowfall, Climate normals, Climate hazards, Character, January 52.2F, July 84.8F and August 85.5F from the monthly series, and annual mean 69.6F, precipitation 32.38 in, snowfall 0.2 in and the counts of days at 90F and 100F and nights at freezing from dataset=normals-annualseasonal-1991-2020 for the same station
- Global Historical Climatology Network daily summaries, San Antonio International Airport (USW00012921), 1946-2026 · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards, Character, 11.26 in on 17 October 1998, 9.87 in on 25 May 2013, 6.11 in on 12 June 2025, 75 days at or above 100F in 2023 and 23 in a row from 30 July to 21 August 2023, 59 in 2009, 58 in 2022, 24 in 2026 through 22 September, 111F on 5 September 2000, 6.2 in of snow from 14 to 18 February 2021 and 9F on 15 February 2021, 6F on 23 December 1989, 0F on 31 January 1949, 13.2 in of snow on 12 January 1985
- October 1998 Flood Event (South Central Texas) · National Weather Service, Austin/San Antonio · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- Average Annual Sunshine in US Cities · Current Results (NCDC Comparative Climatic Data, 1961-1990) · retrieved Supports: Sunshine hours, Climate normals
- Weather and Climate Billion-Dollar Disasters to affect the U.S. from 1980-2024 (events list) · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- October 1998 Central Texas floods · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- 12 years ago, San Antonio's Highway 281 was submerged by record flooding during Memorial Day weekend · KSAT · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- Texas flash floods kill 2 in San Antonio · CBS News · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- It's San Antonio's deadliest flood year in 27 years. What's going on? · San Antonio Report · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards, Character
- February 2021 Winter Storm-Related Deaths, Texas (mortality surveillance report) · Texas Department of State Health Services · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- The Timeline and Events of the February 2021 Texas Electric Grid Blackouts · The University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards, Main sectors
- ACS 2024 1-year tables B08301 and B19013 for San Antonio city and the San Antonio-New Braunfels MSA · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Median household income, Transit commute share, Walk and cycle commute share, Character
- ACS 2024 1-year table B27001 (health insurance coverage) for the 50 states, DC, the US, Bexar County, San Antonio city and the San Antonio-New Braunfels MSA · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Health care, Character
- Local Area Unemployment Statistics, San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX MSA (LAUMT484170000000003), Bexar County, the Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin MSAs, and the US rate (LNU04000000), not seasonally adjusted · US Bureau of Labor Statistics · retrieved Supports: Unemployment rate
- Current Employment Statistics, San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX MSA: total nonfarm (SMU48417000000000001, SMS48417000000000001) and supersectors (SMU484170xx00000001) · US Bureau of Labor Statistics · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market
- Joint Base San Antonio (Texas military installations economic impact, 2025) · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market, Health care, Character
- Why SATX (Joint Base San Antonio, Military City USA) · Greater SATX Regional Economic Partnership · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market
- Visit San Antonio celebrates National Travel and Tourism Week 2026 · Visit San Antonio · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Character
- UTSA and UT Health San Antonio complete merger to become The University of Texas at San Antonio · UT San Antonio · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market, Health care, Education
- USAA (headquarters) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market
- H-E-B (headquarters) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market
- Valero Energy (headquarters) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market
- iHeartMedia (headquarters) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market
- City Sales and Use Tax (city rate table) · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved Supports: Sales tax
- Transit Sales and Use Tax (San Antonio MTA, effective January 1, 1978; San Antonio ATD, effective April 1, 2005, raised January 1, 2026) · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved Supports: Sales tax, Transit system, Transit ridership
- City's proposed plan: Collect sales tax for 4 years before revenue goes to VIA · San Antonio Report · retrieved Supports: Sales tax
- Texas Tax Rates & Rankings · Tax Foundation · retrieved Supports: Top marginal income tax, Income tax on $100,000, Tax notes
- 2025 Tax Brackets and Federal Income Tax Rates · Tax Foundation · retrieved Supports: Top marginal income tax, Income tax on $100,000
- 2026 Tax Brackets and Federal Income Tax Rates · Tax Foundation · retrieved Supports: Top marginal income tax, Income tax on $100,000
- Property Tax Exemptions · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved Supports: Tax notes
- San Antonio approves first property tax hike in 34 years · KSAT · retrieved Supports: Tax notes, Character
- San Antonio council passes FY 2027 budget with higher property tax revenue and fees · News 4 San Antonio · retrieved Supports: Tax notes
- San Antonio approves first tax increase in more than 30 years · San Antonio Report · retrieved Supports: Tax notes, Character
- VIA Metropolitan Transit (routes, fleet, stops, history, Green and Silver lines) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Transit system, Transit ridership
- Template:American transit ridership (APTA Transit Ridership Reports, Q4 2025 and Q2 2026) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership
- Construction Updates, VIA Rapid Green Line · VIA Metropolitan Transit (Keep SA Moving) · retrieved Supports: Transit system, Transit ridership, Character
- When will San Pedro construction be complete? Here's what VIA says about progress on the Green Line. · KSAT · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership, Character
- San Antonio locks down federal funding for $480M Green Line · San Antonio Report · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership, Sales tax
- December & Year End 2025 Statistics · San Antonio International Airport · retrieved Supports: Airport passengers
- December 2024 Statistics (2024 passenger record) · San Antonio International Airport · retrieved Supports: Airport passengers
- Terminal Development Program (ELEVATE/SAT) · San Antonio International Airport · retrieved Supports: Airport passengers
- San Antonio International Airport (location, airlines, 2025 statistics) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Airport passengers, Climate normals
- Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions · KFF · retrieved Supports: Health care
- San Antonio Medical Foundation marks 75th anniversary · San Antonio Report · retrieved Supports: Health care, Main sectors
- About Us · University Health · retrieved Supports: Health care
- University Hospital · University Health · retrieved Supports: Health care
- University Health (University Hospital beds, Women's & Children's Hospital) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Health care
- Northside ISD faces $35 million deficit, but does not anticipate layoffs · KSAT · retrieved Supports: Education
- Like other San Antonio districts, NEISD drops its boundaries · San Antonio Report · retrieved Supports: Education, Character
- San Antonio ISD cites declining enrollment, poor academics for school closure · KSAT · retrieved Supports: Education, Character
- Alamo Colleges District (five colleges) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Education
- El Paso city population drops by 2,209 in 2025, largest decline in Texas, new census estimates show · El Paso Matters · retrieved Supports: Five-year growth, Median household income, Character
- Ciudad Juárez (2020 Mexican census population, ports of entry, maquiladoras) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: City population, Metro population, Main sectors, Character
- Crime Data Explorer summarized agency data, El Paso Police Department (TX0710200): violent crime, property crime, homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft and arson, 2021-2025 · FBI · retrieved Supports: Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Homicides, Crime trend, Character
- El Paso police, sheriff report decline in serious crime in 2025 · El Paso Matters · retrieved Supports: Violent crime rate, Homicides, Crime trend, Character
- US Climate Normals 1991-2020, station USW00023044 El Paso International Airport (Access Data Service) · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: January mean, July mean, Annual precipitation, Annual snowfall, Climate normals, Climate hazards, Character, January 46.5F, June 83.9F, July 84.4F and December 46.1F and the monthly highs, lows, rain and snow from the monthly series, and annual mean 66.2F, precipitation 8.78 in, snowfall 2.8 in and the counts of days at 90F and 100F and nights at freezing from dataset=normals-annualseasonal-1991-2020 for the same station
- Global Historical Climatology Network daily summaries, El Paso International Airport (USW00023044), 1938-2026 · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards, Character, 116.8 and 26.5 are the normals; from the daily series: 70 days at or above 100F in 2023 and 44 in a row from 16 June to 29 July 2023, 62 in 1994, 57 in 2020, 52 in 2026 through 27 September, 108 days in a row at or above 90F from 6 June to 21 September 2026 against 106 in 2015, 114F on 30 June 1994, 6.84 in from 27 July to 4 August 2006 and 2.84 in on 1 August 2006, 15.01 in from July to September 2006, 3.2 in of snow on 14 February 2021 and 14F on 14 and 15 February 2021, 15F high on 2 February 2011 and 1F on 3 February 2011, -8F on 11 January 1962
- Average Annual Days of Sunshine and Percent of Possible Sunshine, Texas · Current Results (NCDC Comparative Climatic Data) · retrieved Supports: Sunshine hours, Climate normals
- El Paso, Texas (climate table: monthly sunshine hours 1961-1990 from NOAA; flooding, dust storms, February 2011 cold; school districts) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Sunshine hours, Climate normals, Climate hazards, Education, Main sectors, character.note (El Paso is in the Mountain Time Zone, UTC-07:00)
- Meteorological Aspects of the 2006 El Paso Texas Metropolitan Area Floods (National Weather Digest, August 2009) · NOAA National Weather Service, El Paso/Santa Teresa · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards, Character
- Stormwater · El Paso Water · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- Major Wind Storm Strikes Western Texas and Southern New Mexico (8 December 2009) · NOAA National Weather Service, El Paso/Santa Teresa · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- Intense Cold Wave of February 2011 · NOAA National Weather Service, El Paso/Santa Teresa · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- Water Resources · El Paso Water · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- Rio Grande and Elephant Butte · El Paso Water · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards, Character
- Desalination (Kay Bailey Hutchison Desalination Plant) · El Paso Water · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards, Character
- Pure Water Center · El Paso Water · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards, Character
- Elephant Butte Lake, estimated daily storage (Water Data for Texas) · Texas Water Development Board · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards, Character, 2.4% of conservation capacity (46,717 acre-feet) on 30 September 2026, a 2026 low of 26,777 acre-feet (1.4%) on 30 July, the least since October 1971, 2.9% in July 2013
- El Paso ends historic hot summer with longest streak of 90-degree days · El Paso Matters · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards, Character
- El Paso Electric (service area, generation, customers) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- Frigid temperatures sweep into El Paso: What to expect, how to prepare · El Paso Matters · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- ACS 2024 1-year tables B08301 and B19013 for El Paso city, El Paso County and the El Paso MSA · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Median household income, Transit commute share, Walk and cycle commute share, Character
- ACS 2024 1-year table B27001 (health insurance coverage) for the 50 states, DC, El Paso County, El Paso city and the El Paso MSA, and for the US · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Health care, Character
- Local Area Unemployment Statistics, El Paso, TX MSA (LAUMT482134000000003), El Paso city (LAUCT482400000000003), El Paso County (LAUCN481410000000003), the Houston, San Antonio and Dallas-Fort Worth MSAs and the US rate (LNU04000000), not seasonally adjusted · US Bureau of Labor Statistics · retrieved Supports: Unemployment rate
- Current Employment Statistics, El Paso, TX MSA: total nonfarm (SMU48213400000000001, SMS48213400000000001), supersectors (SMU482134xx00000001) and federal, state and local government (SMU4821340909x000001) · US Bureau of Labor Statistics · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market
- Fort Bliss (Texas military installations economic impact, 2025) · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market, Character
- Fort Bliss (size, FORSCOM, 1st Armored Division) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Main sectors
- Border Crossing Entry Data (El Paso, Ysleta and Tornillo ports and all US-Mexico ports, 2024 and 2025) · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market, Character
- Meta data center expected to become city of El Paso's largest property taxpayer · El Paso Matters · retrieved Supports: Labour market, Character
- Meta-Abbott agreement on data center guidelines appears to have no effect on El Paso plans · El Paso Matters · retrieved Supports: Labour market, Climate hazards
- County Sales and Use Tax (El Paso County, effective January 1, 1988) · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved Supports: Sales tax
- After hours of tense debate, divided El Paso City Council adopts budget, raises taxes · El Paso Matters · retrieved Supports: Tax notes, Character
- Highest tax rates, lowest tax bills: The complicated reality of El Paso property taxes · El Paso Matters · retrieved Supports: Tax notes, Character
- El Paso County Hospital District budgets pay raises, rise in uncompensated care · El Paso Matters · retrieved Supports: Tax notes, Health care
- Sun Metro (routes, fleet, service area, Brio, streetcar, citing the APTA Transit Ridership Reports, Q4 2025 and Q2 2026) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Transit system, Transit ridership
- Brio routes (Alameda, Dyer, Mesa and Montana corridors) · Sun Metro · retrieved Supports: Transit system, Transit ridership
- Sun Metro Brio (opening dates, frequency) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Transit system, Transit ridership
- About Streetcars (hours, frequency, fare, track, stops) · Sun Metro · retrieved Supports: Transit system, Transit ridership
- El Paso Streetcar (opening, PCC cars, international line) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Transit system, Transit ridership
- Fares & Passes · Sun Metro · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership
- December 2025 Aviation Activity Report (calendar year 2025 vs 2024) · El Paso International Airport, City of El Paso Department of Aviation · retrieved Supports: Airport passengers
- El Paso International Airport (location, 2026 airspace closure) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Airport passengers, Climate normals
- About Us (FY 2024 vitals) · University Medical Center of El Paso · retrieved Supports: Health care, Character
- New UMC CEO to lead hospital through growth, voter-approved bond projects · El Paso Matters · retrieved Supports: Health care
- About Texas Tech Health El Paso · Texas Tech Health El Paso · retrieved Supports: Health care, Education
- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso (independence, schools, first four-year medical school on the border) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Health care
- William Beaumont Army Medical Center · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Health care
- El Paso County lost nearly 12,000 school-age children since 2020, census estimates show · El Paso Matters · retrieved Supports: Education, Character
- Hundreds of El Paso teachers leave classrooms as enrollment decline reshapes area schools, workforce · El Paso Matters · retrieved Supports: Education
- 6 things to know: How EPISD is handling a financial crisis · El Paso Matters · retrieved Supports: Education, Character
- EPISD board members Daniel Call and Valerie Beals announce resignations · El Paso Matters · retrieved Supports: Education
- El Paso ISD trustees postpone bond election until May 2027 · El Paso Matters · retrieved Supports: Education
- Ysleta ISD nearly depletes savings under adopted budget, avoids layoffs for now · El Paso Matters · retrieved Supports: Education
- About UTEP (by the numbers) · The University of Texas at El Paso · retrieved Supports: Education, Character
- University of Texas at El Paso (R1 classification) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Education
- Fact Book, Fall 2024 · El Paso Community College · retrieved Supports: Education
- Route 205 Mesa Brio, 206 Alameda Brio, 207 Dyer Brio and 208 Montana Brio schedules (current) · Sun Metro · retrieved Supports: Transit system
- San Antonio home sales rise 4% in August as prices hold steady · San Antonio Board of REALTORS · retrieved Supports: Bexar County: 2,068 home sales in August 2026, up 8.8% on the year, at a median price of $280,999, down 3.1%, and an average of $336,979, down 2.6%, The San Antonio area MLS: 3,104 sales, up 4%, at a median of $299,275 and an average of $372,989, released 10 September 2026, The release's table: an area median of $310,000 in August 2025 and $313,995 in August 2024, although its prose calls the median unchanged on the year, 5.87 months of inventory, 16,940 active listings and an average of 82 days on the market, 5,024 active residential rental listings at an average monthly rent of $1,832, down 2%, SABOR's membership serving Atascosa, Bee, Bexar, Frio, Karnes, Kendall, La Salle, Maverick, McMullen, Medina, Uvalde, Val Verde and Wilson counties
- South Texas market report: monthly releases · San Antonio Board of REALTORS · retrieved Supports: The monthly MLS releases for January through August 2026, reporting the San Antonio area and Bexar County and no City of San Antonio figure
- Zillow Home Value Index, all homes, middle tier, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, by city · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: A typical home value of $247,453 for the city of San Antonio (region 6915) in August 2026, $253,000 in August 2025, so a fall of 2.2% over the year
- Zillow Home Value Index, single-family and condominium series, by city · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: A typical single-family value of $249,206 in the city of San Antonio in August 2026, against $254,823 a year earlier, down 2.2%, A typical condominium value of $167,371 in the same month, against $174,092, down 3.9%, from the condominium file at https://files.zillowstatic.com/research/public_csvs/zhvi/City_zhvi_uc_condo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv
- San Antonio Rent Report, October 2026 · Apartment List · retrieved Supports: A median rent of $957 for a one-bedroom and $1,179 for a two-bedroom in the city of San Antonio, and $1,121 across all bedroom sizes, Rents down 0.2% over September and down 4.3% over the past 12 months, against -2.1% for the state
- Apartments for rent in San Antonio, TX: average rent · Apartment List · retrieved Supports: Average listed rents of $1,069 and up for a studio, $1,141 and up for one bedroom, $1,477 and up for two, and $1,887 and up for three or more
- FY 2026 fair market rents, San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX HUD Metro FMR Area · United States Department of Housing and Urban Development · retrieved Supports: FY 2026 fair market rents of $1,177 for one bedroom, $1,426 for two and $1,830 for three, as gross rents including utilities, Housing Choice Voucher programs in the metro using Small Area Fair Market Rents set by ZIP code
- Zillow Observed Rent Index, all homes plus multifamily, smoothed, by city · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: An observed rent index of $1,386 for the city of San Antonio in August 2026, against $1,406 a year earlier, down 1.39%
- 2025 official tax rates and exemptions · Bexar County Tax Assessor-Collector · retrieved Supports: 2025 rates per $100: Bexar County 0.276331, Road and Flood Control Fund 0.023668, Hospital District 0.276235, City of San Antonio 0.541590, Northside ISD 1.004900, San Antonio ISD 1.155200, Alamo Community College District 0.149150, San Antonio River Authority 0.018300, Homestead exemptions of $5,000 or 20% for Bexar County, the Hospital District and the City; $3,000 and 20% for the Road and Flood Control Fund; $5,000 or 1% for the college district; $5,000 or 4% for the River Authority; $140,000 for Northside ISD; $140,000 and 0.01% for San Antonio ISD, San Antonio Municipal Utility District No. 1 at 0.20, twelve emergency service districts at up to 0.10, and 24 special improvement districts, 22 of them at 0.541590, The Downtown Public Improvement District at 0.15, and 0.09 on condominiums, Official tables from 2005 to 2025 and none yet for 2026, from https://www.bexar.org/1591/Tax-Rates
- 2024 actual tax rates and 2025 actual tax rates, as of 5 December 2025 · Bexar Appraisal District · retrieved Supports: The same 2025 rates to the sixth decimal, and each unit's 2024 rate beside it: the City, the county, the Road and Flood fund, the Hospital District, the college district and Northside ISD unchanged, and the River Authority up from 0.017870, Local option homestead exemptions not less than $5,000, and the Road and Flood fund's $3,000 homestead exemption, Redbird Ranch water districts at 1.00 per $100
- 2025 tax rate calculation worksheets: City of San Antonio · Bexar County Tax Assessor-Collector · retrieved Supports: A debt rate of 0.21150 per $100 within the City's 0.54159, leaving 0.33009 for maintenance and operations, The same 0.54159 adopted for the 2024 tax year
- Valuing property: limitation on residence homestead value increases · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved Supports: A residence homestead's appraised value may not rise more than 10% a year once the owner has qualified in the preceding and current year
- Property tax protests and appeals · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved Supports: A protest deadline of 15 May or 30 days after the appraisal district mails the notice of appraised value, whichever is later
- 2020 block assignment files, Texas: unified school districts and places · United States Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: Read with the 2020 redistricting file's block populations, at https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2020/data/01-Redistricting_File--PL_94-171/Texas/tx2020.pl.zip, Of the City of San Antonio's 1,434,625 residents in 2020: 468,901 in Northside ISD, 368,830 in North East ISD, 298,175 in San Antonio ISD, 59,802 in Harlandale ISD, 56,792 in Edgewood ISD and 45,376 in South San Antonio ISD, 298,175 of San Antonio ISD's 300,690 residents inside the city, and 468,901 of Northside ISD's 665,676
- 2025 Gazetteer files: places, Texas · United States Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: A land area of 498.979 square miles and a water area of 5.735 square miles for San Antonio city
- Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) · City of San Antonio Planning Department · retrieved Supports: The ETJ as the unincorporated land within five miles of the City's boundaries and not within another city's limits or ETJ, The area in which the City may annex land, with the consent of the landowner or voter approval, Senate Bill 2038, effective 1 September 2023, establishing a petition and election process for releasing property from a city's ETJ
- ETJ planning · City of San Antonio Planning Department · retrieved Supports: Two Military Protection Areas, within five miles of Camp Bullis and the Lackland Training Annex, developed as a direct result of a 2017 state law curtailing unilateral annexation by Texas cities
- Annexation and growth management policy, adopted 31 August 2023 · City of San Antonio Planning Department · retrieved Supports: Senate Bill 6 (2017) curtailing the annexation powers of cities in counties of more than 500,000 people, such as San Antonio, and requiring landowner or voter approval, Elections called in 2018 for areas within five miles of Camp Bullis-Camp Stanley and Lackland Air Force Base-Medina Training Annex, where owners chose land use controls rather than annexation, Chapter 382 public improvement districts created by the county with the City's written consent as the most common special district request
- Public improvement districts and special districts · City of San Antonio Planning Department · retrieved Supports: Special districts in the City's ETJ, including Chapter 382 public improvement districts, also called special improvement districts, water control and improvement districts and fresh water supply districts, Districts created by the county at a landowner's request with the City's consent, conditioned through development agreements
- Our history · CPS Energy · retrieved Supports: The nation's largest public power, natural gas and electric company, serving more than 996,000 electric and 399,000 natural gas customers, $10.6 billion in revenue generated for the City of San Antonio since 1942, Acquired by the City of San Antonio on 24 October 1942
- Edwards Aquifer · San Antonio Water System · retrieved Supports: About 47%, some 154,000 acre-feet, of the water SAWS customers used in 2025 came from the Edwards Aquifer, Permitted withdrawals subject to cutbacks of zero to 44% in critical periods
- Water supplies · San Antonio Water System · retrieved Supports: In 1995 all of San Antonio's water came from the Edwards Aquifer; SAWS now manages 13 supply projects from seven sources
- Stage 3 watering rules · San Antonio Water System · retrieved Supports: Stage 3 rules in effect on 30 September 2026: landscape watering once a week, on the customer's day, from 5 to 10 a.m. and 9 p.m. to midnight
- Stormwater fee · San Antonio Water System · retrieved Supports: SAWS bills the City of San Antonio's stormwater fee on the City's behalf, Residential rates of $3.75 a month up to 2,750 square feet of impervious area, $4.94 to 4,220 square feet and $10.45 above it
- Solid waste rates and fees · City of San Antonio Solid Waste Management Department · retrieved Supports: Monthly totals of $19.76, $25.26 and $35.75 for the small, medium and large garbage cart, including the $3.00 solid waste and $2.00 parks environmental fees, The fee shown and collected on the CPS Energy bill, with no additional fee for the recycling and organics carts
- June 11 to 12, 2025 San Antonio area flood event · National Weather Service, Austin/San Antonio · retrieved Supports: 13 fatalities from flooding across the San Antonio area, 12 in the Beitel Creek basin and one in the Leon Creek basin, 15 vehicles swept into Beitel Creek from the Loop 410 frontage road near Perrin Beitel Road, 3.98 inches of rain in one hour at San Antonio International Airport, the highest hourly rate on record since 1934
- San Antonio, TX · Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas · retrieved Supports: The flood of 9 and 10 September 1921, which put up to twelve feet of water downtown and killed at least fifty-one people, and the Olmos Dam and river bypass built after it
- Home, flood, wind: which policies do you need? · Texas Department of Insurance · retrieved Supports: Most home policies do not cover floods; a flood policy covers damage from rising water
- Primary Mortgage Market Survey, 24 September 2026 · Freddie Mac · retrieved Supports: A 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaging 7.03%, up from 6.95% the week before and 6.30% a year earlier
- Texas homeowners insurance market overview · Texas Department of Insurance · retrieved Supports: A statewide average homeowners premium of $3,489 a year
- How much is homeowners insurance in San Antonio, TX? · Insure.com · retrieved Supports: An average San Antonio premium of $2,866 a year for $300,000 of dwelling cover, $100,000 of liability and a $1,000 deductible, updated 27 May 2026, An average of $2,222 a year for $200,000 of dwelling cover
- Texas homeowners insurance · NerdWallet · retrieved Supports: An average San Antonio premium of $4,565 a year for $500,000 of dwelling cover, $300,000 of liability and a $1,000 deductible, updated 20 February 2026
- Renters insurance in Texas · NerdWallet · retrieved Supports: An average San Antonio renters premium of $167 a year, $14 a month, for $30,000 of personal property, updated 23 September 2026
- Monthly homeowners' association and condominium fee, tables B25142 and B25143, 2024 American Community Survey 1-year estimates, San Antonio city · United States Census Bureau, via the Census Reporter API · retrieved Supports: A median monthly association fee of $60 among San Antonio owner-occupied units that pay one, 110,122 of 295,530 owner-occupied units, or 37.3%, paying such a fee, and 4,864 paying $500 or more a month
- Homeownership Incentive Programs (HIP) · City of San Antonio Neighborhood and Housing Services Department · retrieved Supports: HIP 80: $1,000 to $30,000 as a 0% interest, no-payment second loan, the first $15,000 forgiven over five years and the rest over ten, on an existing home up to $260,000 or a new one up to $284,000, with 2026 income limits of $56,350 for one person to $80,500 for four, HIP 120: $1,000 to $15,000, 75% forgiven over ten years and 25% perpetual, on an existing home up to $301,700 or a new one up to $332,800, with income limits of $84,500 for one person to $120,700 for four, A HUD-approved eight-hour homebuyer class, a home inside the city limits and a $500 minimum earnest money deposit
- HIP 80 and HIP 120 general information · City of San Antonio Neighborhood and Housing Services Department · retrieved Supports: Both programs for income-eligible first-time homebuyers buying a primary residence, which must pass a HIP property review and inspection, The remaining balance repaid in part on a change of ownership, a sale or a cash-out refinance, from this sheet and the HIP 120 sheet at https://www.sa.gov/files/assets/main/v/5/nhsd/documents/hip120-generalinformation.pdf
- Housing activity: El Paso County, monthly · Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University · retrieved Supports: A median sale price of $280,615 in El Paso County in August 2026 on 786 sales, against $269,000 on 706 sales in August 2025, up 4.32%, and an average of $313,426, 2,462 active listings and 3.39 months of inventory in August 2026, against 3,048 and 4.39 a year earlier, Figures from MLS listings of single-family homes, condominiums and townhouses, new and existing, physically located within the county, with no split by type and no City of El Paso figure
- El Paso Rent Report, October 2026 · Apartment List · retrieved Supports: A median rent of $941 for a one-bedroom and $1,126 for a two-bedroom in the city of El Paso, and $1,182 across all bedroom sizes, Rents up 0.9% over September and up 1.6% over the past 12 months, against -2.1% for the state
- Apartments for rent in El Paso, TX: average rent · Apartment List · retrieved Supports: Average listed rents of $811 and up for a studio, $1,125 and up for one bedroom, $1,192 and up for two, and $1,369 and up for three or more
- FY 2026 fair market rents, El Paso, TX HUD Metro FMR Area · United States Department of Housing and Urban Development · retrieved Supports: FY 2026 fair market rents of $821 for an efficiency, $1,013 for one bedroom, $1,191 for two, $1,633 for three and $1,998 for four, as gross rents including utilities, The FMR area as El Paso County alone
- Zillow Observed Rent Index, single-family homes, smoothed, by metro · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: A single-family observed rent index of $1,776 for the El Paso metro area (region 394561) in August 2026, against $1,701 a year earlier
- 2025 taxing entities and rates · City of El Paso Tax Office · retrieved Supports: The City of El Paso collecting property taxes for the governments listed, at 2025 rates per $100 of maintenance and operations, interest and sinking, and total, City of El Paso 0.549469, 0.210180 and 0.759649; County of El Paso 0.395292, 0.063597 and 0.458889; El Paso ISD 0.769900, 0.310800 and 1.080700; El Paso Community College 0.103563, none and 0.103563; University Medical Center 0.179542, 0.061350 and 0.240892, Ysleta ISD 0.770500, 0.430000 and 1.200500; Socorro ISD 0.668900, 0.270000 and 0.938900; Canutillo ISD 1.152500, Paseo del Este MUDs 1 to 11 at 0.623700 to 0.801800, Horizon Regional MUD 0.662800, Emergency Services District 1 0.100000 and District 2 0.087138, the Downtown Management District 0.120000 and City of El Paso MMD 1 0.270000
- El Paso Central Appraisal District: entities and exemptions, 21 June 2023 · El Paso Central Appraisal District · retrieved Supports: An optional residential homestead exemption of $5,000 for the City of El Paso and El Paso County, 20% for Ysleta ISD, and none for El Paso Community College or University Medical Center, The school homestead exemption for every school district, and no local option tax freeze granted by any entity in the county
- 2 in every 5 El Paso County homeowners won't have to pay school property taxes under expanded homestead exemption · El Paso Matters · retrieved Supports: The city and county governments with $5,000 homestead exemptions, and University Medical Center of El Paso and El Paso Community College with none, Ysleta ISD's additional 20% homestead exemption on top of the state's, More than 77,000 El Paso County homeowners owing no school tax in 2025 once the $140,000 exemption applied, about 43% of homesteads
- Some El Paso homeowners will save hundreds with relief on school property taxes. Others may see their tax bills go up. · El Paso Matters · retrieved Supports: El Paso ISD as the largest district in the county, An average taxable home value in the county of just over $223,000 in 2025, and the City's line as the largest part of the bill for most homeowners
- Comparing property taxes: El Paso and beyond, May 2025 · Hunt Institute for Global Competitiveness, University of Texas at El Paso · retrieved Supports: A combined 2024 property tax rate of 2.595740% for the City of El Paso, above San Antonio's 2.079601%, Houston's 2.092362%, Austin's 1.981814% and Dallas's 2.235030%
- Median household income, median home value and tenure, tables B19013, B25077 and B25003, 2024 American Community Survey 1-year estimates · United States Census Bureau, via the Census Reporter API · retrieved Supports: A median household income of $59,932 in El Paso city, against $79,721 for Texas, Median household incomes of $64,361 in Houston, $66,176 in San Antonio, $74,323 in Dallas, $82,503 in Fort Worth and $90,430 in Austin, A median owner-occupied home value of $209,600 in El Paso city, and 151,778 of its 246,570 occupied homes owner-occupied
- Tax and budget: 2026 tax rate notices · City of El Paso Office of Management and Budget · retrieved Supports: A proposed 2026 rate of $0.809487 per $100, the voter-approval rate, against a no-new-revenue rate of $0.747490, from https://www.elpasotexas.gov/assets/Documents/CoEP/OMB/Tax-Budget/2026/2026.08.04-NOTICE-OF-PUBLIC-HEARING-ON-TAX-INCREASE.pdf
- El Paso City Council approves 2026-27 budget; increase in property taxes · KFOX14 and CBS4 · retrieved Supports: A 2026 rate of $0.798000 per $100 adopted on 18 August 2026, about 1.1 cents below the introduced $0.809487, An estimated increase of about $105 a year for a single-family homeowner
- Official statement, Paseo del Este Municipal Utility District No. 4 unlimited tax bonds, series 2025, 13 November 2025 · Paseo del Este Municipal Utility District No. 4, via SAMCO Capital Markets · retrieved Supports: The district wholly within the City of El Paso's extraterritorial jurisdiction, about 15 miles east of the central area of the City, north of Interstate 10 and east of Loop 375, Paseo del Este planned to include about 4,300 acres, with about 10,546 single-family lots developed as of 31 August 2025, Overlapping 2025 rates of 0.801800 for the district, 0.458889 for the county, 0.100000 for Emergency Services District 1, 0.103563 for the college, 0.938900 for Socorro ISD and 0.240892 for University Medical Center, 2.644044 in all
- PSB approves FY 2026-27 budget, rates and fees, 14 January 2026 · El Paso Water · retrieved Supports: An increase of $9.99 a month on the typical residential bill, 12% over the previous year's, with stormwater fees unchanged
- Rates and fees · El Paso Water · retrieved Supports: Residential stormwater charges of $3.00 a month up to 900 square feet of impervious area, $3.71 to 1,200, $7.42 for a typical 1,201 to 3,000, $14.81 to 4,000 and $18.55 above it, Water rates effective with meter readings after 1 March 2026
- Sample bill · El Paso Water · retrieved Supports: Solid waste charges for the City's Environmental Services Department of $34.65 a month on the water bill: $21.00 for one gray bin, a $5.00 environmental fee, a $6.00 franchise fee and $2.65 of sales tax
- Stormwater FAQ · El Paso Water · retrieved Supports: Flooding when runoff exceeds the capacity of an arroyo or channel, and natural arroyos, some protected from development, as part of the stormwater system
- International Bridges · City of El Paso · retrieved Supports: The City managing three of the region's international ports of entry, Paso del Norte, Stanton and Zaragoza, whose American sides the City owns
- Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020: resultados, Chihuahua · Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía · retrieved Supports: Juárez as the most populous municipality in Chihuahua, with 1,512,450 inhabitants
- Texas title insurance basic premium rates · Texas Department of Insurance · retrieved Supports: A basic premium of $780 plus 0.00494 of the amount over $100,000 for policies from $100,001 to $1,000,000, effective 1 March 2026
- Best home insurance companies in El Paso, Texas · Insurify · retrieved Supports: An average El Paso premium of $2,280 a year for $300,000 of dwelling cover and a $1,000 deductible, against a Texas average of $4,656 for the same cover, updated 27 September 2026, El Paso's distance from the Gulf Coast and its hurricanes as a reason its premiums are lower
- Monthly homeowners' association and condominium fee, tables B25142 and B25143, 2024 American Community Survey 1-year estimates, El Paso city · United States Census Bureau, via the Census Reporter API · retrieved Supports: A median monthly association fee of $50 among El Paso owner-occupied units that pay one, 7,263 of 151,778 owner-occupied units, or 4.8%, paying such a fee, and 400 paying $500 or more a month
- Housing Finance Corporation · City of El Paso Community and Human Development · retrieved Supports: The El Paso Housing Finance Corporation, a non-profit created by the City Council, in existence since 1979, The Mi Casa Homebuyer Grant: up to $20,000 of grant funds for the down payment and closing costs on a home within the city limits, after homebuyer education, for a first-time buyer outside the target area, under income limits of $90,600 for one or two people and $105,340 for three or more outside the target area, and $109,920 and $128,240 inside it, The Welcome Home El Paso grant of up to 5% of the loan through participating lenders
- El Paso weighs shifting $2.5M from first-time buyer aid to affordable housing · KFOX14 and CBS4 · retrieved Supports: The City's first-time homebuyer program, up to $45,000 plus $5,000 toward the down payment or closing costs, last used in 2021, A household income cap of 80% of the area median and a price cap of $226,000, and a proposal of 14 September 2026 to move $2.5 million of unused funds to multi-family construction