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El Paso County, Texas
29,054 Black residents · 3.4% of the county · ranked 17 of 254 in Texas by Black population
El Paso County is a Texas county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, El Paso County held 865,657 residents in all, of whom 29,054 — 3.4% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 865,657 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 29,054 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 3.4% |
| Rank by Black population among Texas counties | 17 of 254 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.
Population Trend
The two-census record for El Paso County: 24,864 Black residents in 2010 and 29,054 in 2020. The population grew by 16.9%, and the Black share in El Paso County moved from 3.1% to 3.4%.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.
The Record
The state's Black population of 3.6 million is spread across 254 counties and county equivalents; El Paso County holds 29,054 of it, rank 17 in the state's order. The county page for El Paso County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black El Paso County, Texas, are recorded in this gazetteer through its place entries — the towns and communities inside the county's borders, each entered on its own published count. Read with those entries, the El Paso County page gives the frame they stand in: 865,657 residents in all, 29,054 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.