Kern Place and Mission Hills out to Mesa Hills and the Upper Valley

The Westside is the city west of the Franklin Mountains. Kern Place, 1,809 residents in 2020 on 255 acres, sits just northeast of UTEP with Cincinnati Avenue and Madeline Park inside, and Mission Hills, north of it, comes within 160 meters of Franklin Mountains State Park. The City's plan puts both in its Central planning area; they are on the Westside here because they are west of the mountain. Mesa Street, State Highway 20, runs through both and on to Mesa Hills, 4,553 residents near Sunland Park Mall, and Upper Mesa Hills beside it is a City neighborhood of its own. The Upper Valley is the largest of the four, the City's North and South Upper Valley together, 7,849 people on about 1,650 acres between Interstate 10 and the river, along Upper Valley Road, Country Club Road and Westside Road. Mesa Brio runs from the Downtown Transit Center to the Westside Transit Center, every 15 minutes at weekday peaks and 20 otherwise, but the Upper Valley's center is 6.1 kilometers in a straight line from the nearest stop on any of Sun Metro's Brio lines, route 59 or the streetcar. 4 guides are listed below.

Kern Place, Mission Hills and Mesa Hills are El Paso ISD, the district the arithmetic on this site's calculators is built on, at 1.0807 per $100 for 2025. The Upper Valley is split: the 2,888 residents of the South Upper Valley are El Paso ISD, but the 4,961 of the North Upper Valley are Canutillo ISD, at 1.1525, which publishes no attendance zone map or address lookup this site could find, so an address there works its bill out from the appraisal district's record and its school from the district itself. The whole Upper Valley also lies inside the outline of El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1, which assessed $30 an acre for 2025 on land that holds a water right, billed on its own rather than by the City Tax Office and owed whether or not any water is taken. Which lots hold one was not checked, so ask. And the river matters here more than anywhere else in the city. FEMA's effective map for this side is not in its digital layer at all, and its preliminary countywide map, issued on 8 August 2025 and not yet effective, puts 7,306 of the Upper Valley's 7,849 residents in its 1% annual chance zone. That map can still change, but nobody should read it as saying the Upper Valley is out of harm's way: the flood map for the exact address, and a quote for a separate flood policy, belong in the offer.