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Census designated place in Harris County, Texas, United States

Atascocita is a census designated place (CDP) in Harris County, Texas, United States, within the Houston metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 88,174.

Bordered on its eastern shore by the Lake Houston, the community contains several parks, country clubs, and golf courses, including Atascocita Country Club, Walden on Lake Houston Golf and Country Club, and Tour 18, a recreation of some of the United States' most celebrated golf holes. Atascocita was named one of the "Best Places to Retire" by U. S. News & World Report, citing Lake Houston's boating and fishing opportunities and Atascocita's numerous golf courses.

Atascocita's name derives from the Atascocito military outpost and subsequent road constructed by the Spanish in 1756. The Atascocito Road stretched from Spanish Louisiana in the east to San Antonio in the west, connecting eastern Texas to the rest of New Spain. The Atascocito Road was a major route for American migrants moving to Texas in the 1820s and 1830s. It is unclear exactly when Atascocito shifted to Atascocita. The City of Houston annexed portions of what would become Atascocita in the 1960s, but it was de annexed in the late 1970s. Construction in the area began in the 1970s. In the 1990s Atascocita included fifteen neighborhoods and was one of the fastest growing developments in the Greater Houston area. The U. S. Census Bureau first established the Atascocita CDP for the 2000 U. S. Census. The City of Houston did limited purpose annexation in Atascocita after the year 2000, therefore reducing the CDP's territory. and The Atascocita Observer.

Atascocita is located at (29.993365, 95.182054). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.74%, is water. Syd Kearney, author of A Marmac Guide to Houston and Galveston, "There are fine resort homes in sections such as Atascocita Shores."

+Atascocita racial composition as of 2020 (NH = Non Hispanic)RaceNumberPercentageWhite (NH)34,31938.92%Black or African American (NH)20,15322.86%Native American or Alaska Native (NH)2180.25%Asian (NH)2,9153.31%Pacific Islander (NH)1740.2%Some Other Race (NH)4350.49%Mixed/Multi Racial (NH)3,1843.61%Hispanic or Latino26,77630.37%Total88,174
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 88,174 people, 26,022 households, and 20,636 families residing in the CDP. As of the census The per capita income for the CDP was $31,496

Atascocita's median home price was $153,100 as of 2017; there are many subdivisions in Atascocita, ranging from small, intimate neighborhoods to large, master planned communities like Eagle Springs, Walden on Lake Houston, The Groves, The Bridges on Lake Houston, Balmoral, Lakeshore, Waters Edge, Summerwood, Pinehurst and Atascocita Shores. New home prices range from under $200,000 to over $20 million. The Harris County Sheriff's Office provides police services. The Atascocita CDP is divided between Harris County Precinct 1 and Harris County Precinct 4. As of 2022, Commissioners Rodney Ellis and Lesley Briones head the precincts, respectively. The CDP is served by the Harris County Sheriff's Office District II Patrol, headquartered from the Humble Substation at 7900 Will Clayton Parkway in Humble. The Harris County Sheriff's Office Academy is in Atascocita. The Harris County Fire Marshall's offices are in Atascocita. The Sheriff's Office opened the Atascocita boot camp, a correctional facility for county inmates, in 1991. It closed in September 2004 as the county decided that its rehabilitation value was questionable. The vocational programs, once at the camp, were transferred to the Downtown area. The nearest public clinic of the Harris Health System (formerly Harris County Hospital District) is the E. A. "Squatty" Lyons clinic in Humble. The nearest public hospital is Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital in northeast Houston.

Pam Lychner Unit, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice state jail for men, is located in the Atascocita CDP. The state jail, which has beds for 2,200 residents and a residential probation program with 450 beds, was named after Pam Lychner.

Lone Star College opened its Atascocita Center in August, 2011. The center offers access to adult basic education/GED, English as a Second Language, college classes to meet degree requirements and Academy for Lifelong Learning (ALL) for seniors. The University of Houston–Downtown also offers a bachelor's degree in business administration in the evenings at the center.

Atascocita is served by the Atascocita Branch Library of the Harris County Public Library (HCPL), located inside the CDP. In 1986 the Atascocita Hi Neighbor group began to campaign for a library in Atascocita. The branch was built from 1994 to 1996 with the help of Janette Dennis, an Atascocita resident and philanthropist, and opened on May 5, 1996. Janette Dennis helped spearhead "The Friends of the Atascocita Library" (FOAL) donates around $20,000 United States dollars per year to the library.

Atascocita Park, a area of space, on Lake House Parkway, opened on June 24, 2020. A part of Harris County Precinct 2, it had a cost of $11,500,000. It has a dog park with of space, a boardwalk with a pond, and a playground with skywalks. Lake Houston is in the Atascocita area. Syd Kearney, author of A Marmac Guide to Houston and Galveston, said that Atascocita was "synonymous with golf, tennis, and other great recreational features on Lake Houston."