City · El Paso County, Texas

Socorro, Texas

Socorro is a city in El Paso County, Texas, part of the El Paso, TX metro area. It has 37,123 residents. Socorro, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 13 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,682 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #670 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on distance to an airport (low), comfortable days (high) and natural hazard risk (low). It ranks worst on uninsured residents (under 65) (high), high school diploma or higher (low) and mammography screening (low).

13Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,682 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #670 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 37,123 (2020-2024)
Land area: 22 mi²
Density: 1,684.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 4868636

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety49#7,961/15,637
Economy19#12,644/15,631
Housing32#10,208/14,977
Health48#8,155/15,609
Healthcare11#14,002/15,650
Environment40#9,336/15,453
Education17#12,979/15,649
Infrastructure25#11,744/15,650
Community2#15,253/15,651
Leisure & amenities23#12,022/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Socorro, Texas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “El Paso County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Distance to an airport · low9 mi
96/100Texas 33 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauEl Paso County value
Comfortable days · high32.8%
89/100Texas 30.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationEl Paso County value
Natural hazard risk · low6.4
89/100Texas 39.62025Federal Emergency Management AgencyEl Paso County value
Child care cost burden · low22.3%
87/100Texas 24.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEl Paso County value
Injury deaths · low61 /100k
87/100Texas 69 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEl Paso County value
Depression · low19.9%
82/100Texas 21.2%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Uninsured residents (under 65) · high37.0%
0/100Texas 19.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
High school diploma or higher · low70.6%
2/100Texas 86.0%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Mammography screening · low30.0%
2/100Texas 42.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteEl Paso County value
Voter turnout · low48.0%
3/100Texas 57.8%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionEl Paso County value
Days with unhealthy air · high17.3%
3/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyEl Paso County value
Median Air Quality Index · high70
3/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyEl Paso County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
33,778 (2015-2019) → 37,123 (2020-2024)
+9.9%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedWorsening
17.2 /1k (2021) → 1.1 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−94%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
74.6% (2015-2019) → 88.9% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$38,111 (2015-2019) → $54,744 (2020-2024)
+44%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Child poverty rateImproving
29.6% (2015-2019) → 20.9% (2020-2024)
−8.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
High school diploma or higherImproving
62.6% (2015-2019) → 70.6% (2020-2024)
+7.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Socorro, Texas improved on 5 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved5

High school++7.9 points62.6% → 70.6%
Child poverty−8.7 points29.6% → 20.9%
Household income+44%$38,111 → $54,744
Broadband+14 points74.6% → 88.9%
Bachelor's++5.1 points7.7% → 12.8%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Socorro, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	27.6 min2015-2019	26.8 min2020-2024	−0.8 min	Within the margin of error	57%
Bachelor's degree or higher	7.7%2015-2019	12.8%2020-2024	+5.1 points	Improved	68%
Broadband subscriptions	74.6%2015-2019	88.9%2020-2024	+14 points	Improved	77%
Child poverty rate	29.6%2015-2019	20.9%2020-2024	−8.7 points	Improved	79%
Effective property tax rate	2.07%2015-2019	1.96%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	39%
High school diploma or higher	62.6%2015-2019	70.6%2020-2024	+7.9 points	Improved	92%
Home price to income ratio	2.4×2015-2019	2.6×2020-2024	+0.2×	Within the margin of error	68%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4172015-2019	0.4182020-2024	+0.001	Within the margin of error	50%
Median household income	$38,1112015-2019	$54,7442020-2024	+44%	Improved	79%
Poverty rate	23.7%2015-2019	20.7%2020-2024	−3 points	Within the margin of error	70%
Rent as share of income	30.9%2015-2019	32.8%2020-2024	+1.9 points	Within the margin of error	40%
Rent-burdened households	52.1%2015-2019	53.1%2020-2024	+0.9 points	Within the margin of error	52%
Unemployment rate	5.9%2015-2019	4.8%2020-2024	−1 points	Within the margin of error	70%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	32.5%2015-2019	37.0%2020-2024	+4.5 points	Within the margin of error	12%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Socorro, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Socorro, Texas in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Socorro, Texas itself moved +3.3 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

37,123 residents (±42)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79
60–69

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

11,396 households (±445)

Socorro, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k23%2,647
$25k–50k21%2,385
$50k–75k21%2,352

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

11,396 households (±445)

Socorro, Texas
Texas share

Own82%9,322
Rent18%2,074

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+7.4 points).

Table view

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

15,847 workers (±714)

Socorro, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone75%11,937
Carpool17%2,659
Public transit0.6%†94

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the El Paso, TX

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of El Paso County, the county holding most of Socorro's residents.

El Paso County has 16,280 employer establishments, 186 for every 10,000 residents (0.75× the US rate of 248; 0.85× Texas's), with 254,282 paid employees at an average annual pay of $42,760. The Census Bureau also counts 85,247 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 16,280; 85,247 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 186; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 254,282
Average annual pay: $42,760; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of El Paso County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	1,585	18.2	0.87×About typical	23,707	$49,102	3,276
Restaurants and other eating places	1,574	18	0.98×About typical	33,621	$19,368	827
Lessors of real estate	866	9.9	0.81×About typical	2,757	$50,054	5,254
Specialty trade contractors	785	9	0.58×Fewer than typical	7,904	$48,781	7,245
Truck transportation	710	8.1	1.61×More than typical	7,596	$56,578	5,618
Limited-service restaurants	703	8.1	1.00×About typical	15,864	$17,676	224
Full-service restaurants	662	7.6	0.99×About typical	14,891	$21,147	365
Offices of physicians	639	7.3	1.13×About typical	5,707	$85,636	597
Automotive repair and maintenance	430	4.9	0.98×About typical	2,502	$36,646	2,019
Building equipment contractors	406	4.6	0.77×Fewer than typical	4,155	$50,843	1,818
Construction of buildings	399	4.6	0.60×Fewer than typical	3,202	$57,825	4,564
Insurance agencies and brokerages	376	4.3	0.98×About typical	2,342	$50,567	1,361

Rank places for an industry Open El Paso County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 873,242 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $297K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Socorro, Texas: $8.00 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $297K; −67% vs FY2025
Per resident: $8.00; US $1,994
Sole-source: 1.6%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.8%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Agricultural Marketing Service$290K98%
Drug Enforcement Administration$7,2762.5%

Top recipients

GH DAIRY$290K98%
ACEVEDO-GONZALEZ VICTOR MANUEL$7,2762.5%
STEWART & STEVENSON POWER PRODUCTS LLC-$2370.0%

Spending by fiscal year

84.9KFY2017
214.9KFY2018
1.5MFY2019
6.3MFY2020
1.7MFY2021
276.8KFY2022
551.9KFY2023
3MFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Dairy product manufacturing · 3115$290K98%
Building finishing contractors · 2383$7,2762.5%

Largest awards whose ZIP code lies mostly in Socorro, Texas

COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000011041/4100033238/MILK 1% FRESH CTR-128 FL OZ$341.3K
GH DAIRY· El Paso County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 4, 2025 – Dec 4, 2025· 123J1426C0161
COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000011227/4100034075/MILK 2% FRESH CTR-128 FL OZ,MILK WHOLE FRESH CTR-128 FL OZ$57.2K
GH DAIRY· El Paso County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 23, 2026 – Apr 23, 2026· 123J1426C1007
8506268904!SPACER,RING$56.1K
STEWART & STEVENSON POWER PRODUCTS LLC· El Paso County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· Feb 6, 2019 – Oct 15, 2025· SPE4A019V0512
TITLE: 25-S-135/AVM INSTALLATIONS/PAINT ROOMS/FACE-DXD REQUESTOR: GEORGE GODINEZ POP DATES: 05/12/2025 TO 05/11/2026

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Socorro, Texas, so they do not add up across cities.

Socorro, Texas's figures are part of those of El Paso County, TX ($5.4B in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Socorro is mostly in El Paso County.

See federal money in El Paso County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Socorro, Texas is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Veronica EscobarD-TX-16 · 85% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 1.2%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

El Paso County32100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

El Paso, TX21

Other cities and towns in El Paso County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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