The population of El Paso county is estimated at 837,147. In 2017 there were 13,224 births and 5,384 deaths in El Paso county. El Paso county has 105,401 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 56,294 that are owned free and clear and 94,862 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of El Paso County filed 362,040 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 3.0% of all Texas filings and 0.243% of the entire nation. El Paso had an impressive combined total federal tax liability of $2,481,657,000 on earned income of $15,302,707,000. Other notable statistics from El Paso County were 11,450 unemployment claims which collected a total of $52,679,000 and 42,790 charitable contributions valued at $184,502,000. 47,560 filings from El Paso County paid a combined total of $242,353,000 in property taxes and 43,370 filings paid $277,164,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 El Paso county had 485 religious congregations with an estimated 462,176 members.
22.2% of the El Paso population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 23.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 25% of El Paso County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 39,405 votes.
At $44,120 the median income is 74.5% of the Texas average. An estimated 16,275 people claimed to be unemployed last year in El Paso, the equivalant of around 4.6% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.9%.

Top 15 Industries in El Paso County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
34,934	Retail trade
29,136	Administrative and support services
28,733	Accommodation and food services
26,748	Food services and drinking places
15,099	Employment services
14,263	Ambulatory health care services
11,519	Limited-service restaurants
7,501	Professional employer organizations
6,251	Business support services
5,774	General freight trucking
5,672	Other services (except public administration)
5,608	Clothing and clothing accessories stores
5,560	Telephone call centers
5,248	General freight trucking, long-distance
4,321	General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload

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