El Paso tract 34.03 is not a designated Opportunity Zone

On November 5, 2026, Treasury press release sb0682 said all 6,576 nominated census tracts were designated Qualified Opportunity Zones, 2,594 of them rural, effective January 1, 2027. That national result is already reported in Treasury designates all 6,576 Opportunity Zone 2.0 tracts on its final list. The tract file for this El Paso County, Texas check is the CDFI Fund final designations workbook, sheet final_oz2_designations, also linked from the CDFI Fund Opportunity Zones page. A check of every row finds no Census Tract Number 48141003403. The same workbook does contain 48141003402, with QOZID N48141003402-27.

The exact answer for tract 34.03. The missing row is not a filtered-page miss. 48141003403 is absent from the workbook. Texas’s official OZ 2.0 nomination PDF has the same county result: 22 El Paso County lines, including 48141003402, and not including 48141003403. On November 7, 2026 both files were fetched again. Each was byte-identical to the November 6 copy. The workbook SHA-256 is c04f6cdf0db717c21bb03aa46b655a5f016b3a7b0477e2ed8799ce8bfb4b5efd. The PDF SHA-256 is 12f6fbe91871512840b811dd0413c3e6d66d8e19dac56715135d6c6a3340eeab. All 22 designated El Paso County rows are marked Non-Rural. Rural treatment does not apply to those 22 tracts, and it does not apply to 34.03, which is not designated. A spreadsheet row, a tract number, and a street address are three different checks. El Paso County’s total of 22 does not prove that a parcel is designated. The county in this count is El Paso County, Texas, not El Paso County, Colorado.

The 22 El Paso County tracts that are designated. The table is that county extract: 22 unique GEOIDs, each marked Non-Rural. Tract 34.02 is in the table. Tract 34.03 is not. Similar tract numbers are not a boundary finding, and this article does not say the two tracts share a border. Search the 6,576-tract file on the OZ 2.0 final list. The county lookup, with the same 22 designations and a not-designated answer for 34.03, is the El Paso County tract list.

How Texas selected tracts. The Texas Economic Development & Tourism Office Opportunity Zones page says the state submitted its selections on September 4, 2026 and nominated 608 tracts in 106 counties. The 608 and the 106 are statewide. They are not the El Paso County count. The state says it weighed federal eligibility, local support, whether private capital could be deployed, and geographic balance. Its project-viability criterion prioritizes sites where private capital can “realistically deploy in 24–48 months.” That is a selection criterion from the Office of the Governor. It is not evidence that a project in El Paso County is financed or underway. No local El Paso quotation is used here, because this check did not verify one.

What changes in 2027, and what does not. The Texas page dates the new designations from January 1, 2027 through December 31, 2036. Treasury says the designations last ten years, the same window. The state page also says the original designations remain eligible through December 31, 2028. The two periods overlap for two years, and an old designation does not carry forward on its own. This article does not say whether 48141003403 was on the 2018 list. That answer needs the separate official 2018 workbook, and it was not established in this check. The OZ 2.0 answer is the one the final list supports: 34.03 is not designated, and 34.02 is designated effective January 1, 2027. Where the state page still has a sentence that speaks as if designation were ahead, Treasury’s November 5, 2026 action is the record that controls.

How to check a specific El Paso address. Start with the Census Bureau Geocoder and use its current match from the street address to a 2020 census tract. A ZIP code, a neighborhood name, or the city name does not choose the tract. Take the 11-digit GEOID and compare it with the CDFI final workbook and with the 22 rows above. GEOID 48141003403 is not one of these new designated tracts. GEOID 48141003402 is a designated tract effective January 1, 2027. Statewide context is on Texas Opportunity Zones. The designated-tract map plots tracts from the CDFI final file. It is not a boundary drawing of tract 34.02 or tract 34.03. For an investment decision, or for any question about an older zone, check the official 2018 list on its own and take qualified tax advice. This page does not promise a tax result.

The limits of this answer. This is a tract-designation check. It is not a finding about a development site, a building permit, funding, a property’s value, or an expected return. The records show which census tracts in El Paso County, Texas are on the final list. Leaving 34.03 off that list does not empty the county. The 22 tracts in the table are the designated ones.