Socorro
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city in El Paso County, Texas, United States of America
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- County
- El Paso
- Incorporated
- 1985 (first incorporated 1871)
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Mayor
- David Carlos
- City manager
- Adriana Rodarte
- Total
- 21.97 sq mi (56.90 km )
- Land
- 21.95 sq mi (56.84 km )
- Water
- 0.023 sq mi (0.06 km )
- Elevation
- 3,652 ft (1,113 m)
- Density
- 1,566.0/sq mi (604.65/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-7 ( Mountain (MST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-6 (MDT)
- Zip codes
- 79927-79929
- Fips code
- 48-68636
- Website
- costx .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Socorro
- Population
- 34306
- Area
- 57.129009
- Elevation
- 1116
- Official website
- www.ci.socorro.tx.us
- Image
- Socorro,Texas,USA. - panoramio.jpg
- Households
- 9964
- Dialing code
- 915
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- postal code
- 79927–79929
- inception
- 1680-00-00
- P8168
- Jeanette MacDonald
- water as percent of area
- 0.1045
- per capita income
- 15586
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Socorro is a city in El Paso County, Texas, United States. It is located on the north bank of the Rio Grande southeast of El Paso, and on the border of Mexico. El Paso adjoins it on the west and the smaller city of San Elizario on the southeast; small unincorporated areas of El Paso County separate it from the nearby municipalities of Horizon City to the north and Clint to the east.
As of the 2020 census, the city population was 34,306. By the 2010 census, the number had grown to 32,013. As of July 1, 2019, the population estimate for the city from the U.S. Census was 34,370. It is part of the El Paso Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is El Paso County's second-largest municipality, after El Paso. It has a council-manager type of government with five city council members.