Gross! El Paso Among America's Filthiest Cities

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El Paso is a dirty city, and not in a sexy-time kind of way.

A recent study has revealed the filthiest most unkempt cities in the U.S. and the Sun City is near the top.

LawnStarter looked at over 150 of the largest metropolitans nationwide to determine the Dirtiest Cities in America and six cities in the Lone Star State were deemed trashier and more polluted than most large municipalities in America.

Methodology and El Paso's Ranking

TxDot working picking up rain-swept trash along I-10Photo byTexas Department of Transportation (El Paso) Facebook

To determine its rankings, the study conducted by the online lawn service company scrutinized publicly available data across four categories: pollution, living conditions, infrastructure, and consumer satisfaction.

Although El Paso isn’t in the same league as Houston, which took the dubious top spot, El Paso definitely has some unsightliness going on.

Trash and rubber tire debris all along I-10, plastic shopping bags hanging from trees that line parking lots and roadways like long forgotten Christmas ornaments, and broken glass in strip mall parking lots is some of what I see a lot.

Their voodoo science deemed the 915 the 29th dirtiest city in America.

While offering no specifics, our score was mostly dragged down by poor air quality and the study's consumer satisfaction category, which measures things such the share of residents who find the city “dirty and untidy,” and the share of residents dissatisfied with the amount of pollution.

Other trashy Texas urban areas in the top 50 were San Antonio (7), Dallas (32), Amarillo (35), and Fort Worth (40).

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