El Paso Matters last looked at this during the 2024 mayoral runoff, when both candidates made the claim that El Pasoans pay among the highest property taxes in the state and nation. That’s probably a commonly held view, based on social media commentary.
But it’s not true. Using 2022 data from the Tax Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, we found that the typical El Paso County homeowner pays substantially less in property tax than their fellow Texans in large urban counties.
The Tax Foundation updated its data earlier this year with numbers from 2023. The picture is largely the same.
The median property tax bill in El Paso County in 2023 – meaning half the tax bills were higher and half were lower – was just under $3,500. That is substantially below the median property tax bill in eight of the 10 most populous counties in Texas…