By Robert Moore, El Paso Matters El Paso County will continue to see little to moderate population growth over the next 35 years, according to population estimates released Tuesday from the Texas Demographic Center. The county’s population is projected to grow by an average of one-tenth to half a percentage point annually between 2020 and 2060, the projections show. That would be by far the slowest population growth in the county in the 20th or 21st centuries.

Helen You Three factors are shaping El Paso’s population future, said Helen You, the associate director of the Texas Demographic Center. She said those factors are a slowdown in immigration, continued migration of El Pasoans to other U.S. communities, and a decrease in natural population growth, or the difference between births and

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