El Paso mortgage calculator
What an El Paso mortgage costs each month, how long it runs, what it costs in total, and how much sooner it ends if you pay a little more. Built on monthly compounding and the 30-year fixed loan, and it charges you private mortgage insurance for exactly as long as the law lets a lender charge it, which is the line most calculators leave out.
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The purchase
20.0% down. The minimum on this price is $8,418. At 20% or more there is no mortgage insurance.
A US lender qualifies you on debt-to-income rather than at a stress-test rate, so this payment is the payment. What varies is the rate you are quoted: credit score, points paid at closing and the lender itself move it by more than half a point.
The contract length, not the amortization. At the end of it you renew at whatever rates are then available.
Paying it down faster
Most lenders cap annual prepayments at 10–20% of the original principal, and charge a penalty above it. Check your own commitment before planning around a large lump sum.
Where the money goes, year by year
Early payments are almost all interest. The crossover (the year principal finally exceeds interest) is the real shape of an amortized loan, and it is much later than most people expect.
Show the first two years of the schedule
| Payment | Amount | Interest | Principal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $1,498.08 | $1,315.15 | $182.93 |
| 2 | $1,498.08 | $1,314.08 | $184.00 |
| 3 | $1,498.08 | $1,313.00 | $185.08 |
| 4 | $1,498.08 | $1,311.92 | $186.16 |
| 5 | $1,498.08 | $1,310.82 | $187.26 |
| 6 | $1,498.08 | $1,309.73 | $188.35 |
| 7 | $1,498.08 | $1,308.62 | $189.46 |
| 8 | $1,498.08 | $1,307.51 | $190.57 |
| 9 | $1,498.08 | $1,306.40 | $191.68 |
| 10 | $1,498.08 | $1,305.27 | $192.81 |
| 11 | $1,498.08 | $1,304.15 | $193.93 |
| 12 | $1,498.08 | $1,303.01 | $195.07 |
| 13 | $1,498.08 | $1,301.87 | $196.21 |
| 14 | $1,498.08 | $1,300.72 | $197.36 |
| 15 | $1,498.08 | $1,299.56 | $198.52 |
| 16 | $1,498.08 | $1,298.40 | $199.68 |
| 17 | $1,498.08 | $1,297.23 | $200.85 |
| 18 | $1,498.08 | $1,296.05 | $202.03 |
| 19 | $1,498.08 | $1,294.87 | $203.21 |
| 20 | $1,498.08 | $1,293.68 | $204.40 |
| 21 | $1,498.08 | $1,292.48 | $205.60 |
| 22 | $1,498.08 | $1,291.28 | $206.80 |
| 23 | $1,498.08 | $1,290.06 | $208.02 |
| 24 | $1,498.08 | $1,288.85 | $209.23 |
Derived from the figures above, not a lender's statement. A real schedule also depends on your closing date and the lender's rounding.
An estimate from published figures, not a lender quote.
PMI is the number to watch, not the rate
If you put down less than 20% on a conventional loan the lender adds private mortgage insurance to the payment. It insures the lender, not you, and on the $280,615 El Paso County median sale price it works out like this. At 5% down (a $266,584 loan) a representative rate is about 0.67% of the loan a year, or $149 a month. Federal law makes the lender terminate it automatically when the scheduled balance first reaches 78% of the purchase price, which on a 30-year loan at 7.03% happens in month 142. That is 11.8 years and about $21,100 of payments that buy you no equity at all. At 3% down it is $197 a month and roughly $29,800.
Two things shorten it. You can ask the lender to cancel at 80% rather than wait for 78%, which is a right under the Homeowners Protection Act if you are current on the loan, and paying extra principal gets you there faster, because the trigger is the balance on the schedule rather than what the house is worth. The calculator above moves the termination month when you add an extra payment. The first-time buyer programs matter here too: the state's programs and the El Paso Housing Finance Corporation's Mi Casa grant, up to $20,000 toward the down payment and closing costs on a home inside the city limits for a buyer under its income limits, go toward the down payment, and a larger down payment is the one thing that removes the insurance altogether.
The rate you are quoted is a personal number
This is the biggest difference from the Canadian pages on this site. There, CMHC publishes one premium schedule for the whole country and a lender either applies it or does not. Here the mortgage insurer prices you individually, mostly on credit score, and the same 5%-down loan can be quoted anywhere from about 0.4% to 1.3%. The bands used above are mid-market for a borrower around a 740 score. The loan rate itself moves too: Freddie Mac's survey had the 30-year fixed at 7.03% on 24 September 2026, against 6.30% a year earlier. Get a real quote before treating any of these totals as yours.
Monthly compounding, and why the Canadian number would be wrong
An American fixed-rate mortgage compounds monthly: the periodic rate is simply the annual rate divided by twelve. Canadian mortgages compound twice a year, which makes the same nominal rate slightly cheaper. On a $224,492 loan at 7.03% over 30 years the American payment is $1,498.08 and the Canadian convention would give $1,482.89: $15 a month, or about $5,500 over the life of the loan. This site runs both, and no page borrows the other country's arithmetic.
A biweekly plan is thirteen payments, not clever compounding
Paying half the monthly payment every two weeks means twenty-six half-payments a year, which is thirteen monthly payments' worth of money instead of twelve. On the benchmark loan with 20% down that takes a 30-year mortgage to about 24 years and saves roughly $79,200 in interest. There is nothing magic in it (it is simply paying about 8% more every year) and you can get the identical result by adding a twelfth of the payment to each monthly one, without a servicer's enrollment fee.
What this cannot tell you
The payment above is principal and interest, plus PMI where it applies. Your actual monthly bill will include property tax and homeowners insurance, which the lender will usually escrow: on a $280,615 house that is about $487 a month in tax at the 2.08% effective rate and roughly $180 in insurance, so about $2,165 all in at 20% down, before any flood policy, which a homeowners policy does not include, and which a house below an arroyo or a mountain channel may need. In Texas the tax line is the one to watch, and in El Paso more than anywhere else on this site: that rate assumes you have filed for the homestead exemptions, which are not automatic, and the escrow account the lender opens at closing is sized to it. It is also worked out for a house in the City of El Paso and El Paso ISD; Ysleta, Socorro and Canutillo school districts inside the city levy their own rates, and a house on the far East side in one of the Paseo del Este utility districts, outside the limits, pays the district's rate instead of the City's. Add an association fee if the house has one, which only about one El Paso owner in twenty pays. It also cannot tell you your closing costs, which in Texas run to the title company's escrow fee, split with the seller, a lender's title policy and its endorsements, an inspection, a survey or the seller's affidavit that the old one still holds, the county clerk's recording fees, and whatever the lender charges to originate the loan. There is no transfer tax to pay at all: the state constitution forbids one. For the full comparison against renting, use the rent versus buy calculator.
Sources
- 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
- Annual estimates of the resident population for incorporated places, 2020 to 2025 · United States Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program · retrieved Supports: A population of 683,012 for El Paso city on 1 July 2025, against 685,231 a year earlier, all of it in El Paso County, A population of 877,858 for El Paso County on 1 July 2025
- Zillow Home Value Index, all homes, middle tier, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, by city · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: A typical home value of $238,475 for the city of El Paso (region 17933) in August 2026, $233,280 in August 2025, so a rise 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 $239,433 in the city of El Paso in August 2026, against $234,144 a year earlier, up 2.3%, A typical condominium value of $176,689 in the same month, against $179,195, down 1.4%, 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
- 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, all homes plus multifamily, smoothed, by city · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: An observed rent index of $1,519 for the city of El Paso in August 2026, against $1,471 a year earlier, up 3.25%
- 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
- 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, and the district names in https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2025_Gazetteer/2025_Gaz_unsd_national.zip, Of the City of El Paso's 678,815 residents in 2020: 304,886 in El Paso ISD, 187,847 in Ysleta ISD, 164,173 in Socorro ISD and 21,909 in Canutillo ISD, 304,886 of El Paso ISD's 319,124 residents inside the city, and all 187,847 of Ysleta ISD's
- 2025 Gazetteer files: places, Texas · United States Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: A land area of 258.823 square miles and a water area of 0.534 square miles for El Paso city
- Property tax exemptions · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved Supports: A school district residence homestead exemption of $140,000 under Tax Code section 11.13(b), Local option homestead exemptions of up to 20% of appraised value under section 11.13(n)
- 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
- 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
- Water resources · El Paso Water · retrieved Supports: El Paso Water supplying 97% of all municipal water in El Paso County, The Rio Grande as nearly half the potable supply, and groundwater from the Mesilla and Hueco bolsons, which lie under parts of New Mexico, Texas and Chihuahua, Hueco Bolson pumping peaking at about 26 billion gallons a year in 1989, and consumption down 35% since a 1991 conservation ordinance
- Desalination · El Paso Water · retrieved Supports: The Kay Bailey Hutchison Desalination Plant as the world's largest inland desalination plant, a joint project with Fort Bliss, Up to 27.5 million gallons of fresh water a day from brackish Hueco Bolson groundwater
- 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 · El Paso Water · retrieved Supports: The Franklin Mountains in the heart of the city, and a summer monsoon that can bring a year's worth of rain in a matter of days to small, localized areas, The 2006 storm, a year's rain in two days, with more than $200 million of damage to homes and businesses and $115 million to the stormwater system, A stormwater utility established by the City Council in 2008, operated by El Paso Water and supported by monthly fees
- 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
- Texas military installations, 2025: Fort Bliss · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved Supports: 41,527 direct employees in 2025, 30,288 of them active-duty military, 185,499 military retirees using the installation, and at least $29 billion contributed to the Texas economy
- 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
- 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 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
- Texas homeowners insurance market overview · Texas Department of Insurance · retrieved Supports: A statewide average homeowners premium of $3,489 a year for 2025
- 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
- Texas homeowners insurance · NerdWallet · retrieved Supports: An average El Paso premium of $2,520 a year, $210 a month, 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 El Paso renters premium of $130 a year, $11 a month, updated 23 September 2026
- 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
These are estimates built from published figures, not a lender quote, a pre-approval or financial advice. Rates, premiums and state and federal rules change; confirm anything you plan to act on with a mortgage professional and read the sourcing methodology.