Zip lookup · TX

79936
El Paso, Texas.

El Paso, El Paso County, TX · El Paso, TX metro · population 102,991

What it costs per month · 79936 $1,180/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$680 (+136%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $6,513 +3%
$218,384$224,897 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $58,425 +35%
$166,472$224,897 since Sep 2021

Monthly payment to buy the typical home

Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 79936 $1,180 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 79936$1,180
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.

Typical home values in zip 79936 rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 79936 rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 79936 runs $362/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $410 in Oct 2023.

That is $1,801 a month against $1,440 rent: a $1,180 mortgage payment, plus $380 property tax and $241 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 79936

The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Owning all in $1,801 Renting $1,440 Mortgage only $1,180
$500 $1,000 $1,500 2022 2024 2026
  • Owning all in$1,801
  • Renting$1,440
  • Mortgage only$1,180

Property tax · $380/mo 2.03% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for El Paso County, TX

Insurance & upkeep · $241/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.

Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: El Paso, TX — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $1,440 as of Sep 2026
+4.4%year on year
Typical home value $224,897 as of Sep 2026
+3.0%year on year

Asking rent — 79936

Against the El Paso, TX metro and the national benchmark.

$1,000 $1,250 $1,500 $1,750 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 79936 $1,440 El Paso $1,521 United States $1,932
$1,000 $1,250 $1,500 $1,750 2022 2024 2026
  • 79936$1,440
  • El Paso$1,521
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 79936

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 79936 $224,897 El Paso $233,011 United States $366,157
$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 79936$224,897
  • El Paso$233,011
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

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2.0 79935 El Paso 18,720 $1,152 $243,079
4.3 79925 El Paso 38,621 $1,326 $239,822
4.9 79915 El Paso 34,230 $1,254 $174,222
4.9 79907 El Paso 46,365 $1,288 $179,541
7.6 79905 El Paso 22,594 $1,205 $159,909
8.6 79903 El Paso 14,715 $1,143 $180,179
8.9 79927 El Paso 44,444 $1,660 $206,350
10.4 79930 El Paso 24,123 $1,296 $181,916
10.7 79904 El Paso 32,976 $1,161 $188,983
10.9 79901 El Paso 8,554 $679 $130,485
11.2 79924 El Paso 60,364 $1,331 $194,573
11.9 79902 El Paso 19,031 $1,149 $278,587
12.5 79928 El Paso 86,599 $1,808 $262,067
14.7 79849 San Elizario 14,409 — $181,966
14.7 79934 El Paso 28,861 $1,803 $253,389
14.8 79912 El Paso 78,819 $1,554 $320,367
15.0 79836 Clint 7,711 — $215,047
15.6 79922 El Paso 6,800 — $430,754
16.2 79938 El Paso 99,621 $1,747 $256,135
17.0 88063 Sunland Park 10,881 — $245,330
18.0 79911 El Paso 10,192 $2,407 $400,177
19.6 79932 El Paso 30,786 $1,804 $328,402

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.