Texas's 16th congressional district

Texas's 16th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives includes almost all of El Paso and most of its suburbs in the state of Texas. The current Representative is Democrat Veronica Escobar.

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Texas's 16th congressional district
Interactive map of district boundaries since January 3, 2023
Representative	Veronica Escobar D–El Paso
Distribution	98.36% urban[1] 1.64% rural
Population (2023)	766,538[2]
Median household income	$58,975[2]
Ethnicity	82.1% Hispanic 11.7% White 2.9% Black 1.3% Asian 1.2% Two or more races 0.7% other
Cook PVI	D+11[3]

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The district was initially created in 1903. For most of the next six decades, it stretched across 42,000 square miles (110,000 km²), from El Paso in the west to the Permian Basin (Midland and Odessa) in the east. However, after Texas' original 1960 district map was thrown out as a result of Wesberry v. Sanders, the 16th was shrunk down to the city of El Paso (except a sliver in the east) and most of its surrounding suburban communities.

Since the 1990s, the 16th has been the only Democratic bastion in heavily Republican West Texas. While it has been a majority-Hispanic district since the 1970s, only two Hispanics have ever represented it, Silvestre Reyes and Escobar.