South · Texas · pop 678K
El Paso, TX
Good match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in TX, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,412 — covering estimated essentials here (about $859 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $2,133 left over.
Expect summer highs near 96°F, winter lows around 34°F, and about 297 sunny days a year.
Home prices are within reach relative to local pay — the median home ($190,000) is about 3.5× the median household income.
Tradeoff: the local job market is softer than most on this list (4.2% unemployment).
The El Paso fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,279/mo
Typical rent
$1,010/mo
Home value ÷ income
3.5×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $940/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,010/mo
- Median home value
- $190,000
- Median household income
- $55,000
- Population
- 678,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 4.2%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 1.4%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 350
- Property crime rate
- 1,700
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 96°F
- Avg. winter low
- 34°F
- Sunny days / year
- 297
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈54/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈10/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈22/yr
- Annual rain
- 9"
- Annual snow
- 3"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+13
- Int'l airport
- ≈7 mi
- Walkability
- 41/100
- Disaster risk
- 30/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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