El Paso Standard

El Paso County recorded an unemployment rate of 6.5% among residents aged 16 and 65 years old in 2021. That’s 26,573 people out of the 860,485 living in El Paso County at the time, according to data obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The unemployment rate in El Paso County has increased compared to the 5.9% registered in 2020.

The percentage of people unemployed in El Paso County was greater than the statewide unemployment rate of 5.3%.

Of the 383,965 people who had a job during that time, 17,936 were employed in the Armed Forces and 366,029 belonged to the civilian labor force.

Employment status	Number of people	Percentage of population
Unemployed	26,573	6.5%
Employed	383,965	93.5%
Employed in civilian labor force	366,029	89.2%
Employed in armed forces	17,936	4.4%