The number of people living in the city of El Paso fell by 2,209 between 2024 and 2025, the largest decline in Texas and seventh-largest in the United States, according to estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The annual population decline is the largest ever recorded in census estimates for the city of El Paso, surpassing a drop of 1,700 people between 2017 and 2018, records show.
The city's population has grown by a little over 4,000 since the 2020 census, or 0. 6%, which makes it El Paso's slowest growth period since a population decline during the Great Depression in the 1930s.