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El Paso
Mayor Renard Johnson · Democratic · in office since Jan. 6, 2025
The Executive Summary
Mayor Renard Johnson (D) has led El Paso since Jan. 2025; El Paso is not yet scored — a mayor's record opens only after enough years in office for the lagged data to say anything fair; the card below says exactly where each metric stands.
| Unemployment 4.2% (2025) | Too early |
| Median household income $59,932 (2024 · constant 2024 $) | Too early |
| Poverty rate 18.3% (2024) | Too early |
| Government form | Council-manager |
Renard Johnson has not been in office long enough to be scored — attribution opens two years in, the same rule applied to governors.
Sources: unemployment — BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics · median household income — Census ACS 1-year, CPI-U deflated · poverty rate — Census ACS 1-year (B17001). Unemployment runs through 2025; income and poverty through 2024. The 2025 unemployment point is an eleven-month average — October 2025 was never collected during the federal shutdown — and it is included and flagged here under the same rule the state pages apply to the same statistic (one statistic, one rulebook, as of v2.6; through v2.5 city pages excluded it instead, and the changelog says so).
Scored on economic outcomes only — unemployment, real median income and poverty. Crime, housing and health are not yet included, so this is a narrower measure than a governor’s. Government form follows standard reference classifications and was not verified city by city. Methodology
El Paso sits in TX, whose governor Greg Abbott holds a scored statewide record (No. 22 of 29). State outcomes are not the mayor’s grade — a city is not a state — but they’re the nearest verified context today.