Downtown, the Segundo Barrio, Sunset Heights, Manhattan Heights and Five Points

Downtown here is the Downtown Management District less the Segundo Barrio's blocks, about 240 acres south of Interstate 10 with San Jacinto Plaza, the Plaza Theatre, Southwest University Park, the El Paso Museum of Art and City Hall inside. Union Depot and the Paso del Norte bridge, one of the three ports of entry to Ciudad Juárez whose American side the City owns, are just outside it. The guide counted 1,295 residents in 2020, and 583 of them, 45%, are in the one block that holds the El Paso County Detention Facility on East Overland Avenue, so its per-household figures use the 693 who live in blocks with housing. Between downtown and the river, the City's Segundo Barrio neighborhood held 5,581 people, with Sacred Heart Church on South Oregon Street, and Chihuahuita, the City's smallest historic district, is beside it. Across Interstate 10, Sunset Heights reaches the edge of UTEP's campus; to the east, Manhattan Heights sits around Memorial Park, and Five Points is where Montana Avenue meets Piedras Street, west of US 54. The El Paso Streetcar, which charges no fare, runs 4.8 miles of track between downtown and the UTEP area; its page says every 15 minutes, and its published timetable runs closer to every 18. 5 guides are listed below.

Everything here is El Paso ISD, the district the arithmetic on this site's calculators is built on, at 1.0807 per $100 for 2025, or 2.643693 with the City, the County, El Paso Community College and University Medical Center. Downtown adds the Downtown Management District, created in March 1997, whose assessment has been 0.12 per $100 ever since, and 374 of the Segundo Barrio's residents are inside it too; tax increment zone 5 covers parts of both and adds no rate. The historic districts are the thing to check. The City's Sunset Heights district holds 2,333 of that neighborhood's 2,867 residents, its Manhattan Heights district 1,636 of 2,860, and downtown has two small ones, Downtown and Old San Francisco. Inside a City district, exterior changes, new construction and demolition need approval before a building permit: the Historic Preservation Office can approve most routine work itself, and the rest needs a Certificate of Appropriateness from the nine-member Historic Landmark Commission, about a month from a complete application. The Segundo Barrio's district, over 4,650 of its residents, is a National Register listing the City maps, and a listing alone carries no local review. None of these five guides is on FEMA's digital flood panels, so the effective zone for an address here has to be read on the scanned panel at FEMA's Map Service Center, and where the lot sits below an arroyo matters as much as the map.