El Paso County Public Health
El Paso County Public Health is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado and serves over 750,000 residents of El Paso County. El Paso County covers 2,130 square miles and includes the cities and towns of Colorado Springs, Manitou Springs, Calhan, Fountain, Green Mountain Falls, Monument, Palmer Lake, and Ramah. The five military bases, multiple colleges, and mixture of rural and urban areas across its plains and mountainous areas make the county unique.
The El Paso County population is 50.2 percent male and 49.8 percent female, with a median age of 35.5 years. In 2024, 66 percent of the county population identified as White, 20 percent as Hispanic, 6 percent as Black/African-American, 4 percent as Two or More Races, 3 percent as Asian, less than 1 percent as Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and less than 1 percent as American Indian/Alaskan Native.
El Paso County Public Health was established in 1872 as a City Health Department; it became an organized County Health Department in 1939. Public Health provides a broad spectrum of services to address ongoing and critical public health and safety issues.
El Paso County Public Health divisions, programs and services are aligned with Colorado’s seven core public health services: administration and governance; assessment, planning and communication; communicable disease prevention, investigation and control; emergency preparedness and response; environmental health; prevention and population health promotion; and vital records and statistics.
Additionally, El Paso County Public Health must meet foundational capabilities, which are the cross-cutting capacities and expertise needed to support foundational services and any public health program. These include: assessment and planning, communications, policy development and support, partnerships, organizational competencies, emergency preparedness and response and social determinants of health.
El Paso County Public Health’s programs include both those mandated by state statute as well as those that reflect the unique needs of El Paso County.
