Agua Dulce, TX (CDP)

At the 2020 census, Agua Dulce was an El Paso County census-designated place of 3,218 people in the county’s eastern rural belt, not the separate South Texas community with its own Agua Dulce school district. The El Paso place is part of the El Paso metro area, carries the 79928 ZIP code, and is served by Clint Independent School District. That distinction matters because an identical name appears elsewhere in Texas; here, the map is the lower desert east of El Paso, where subdivisions and unincorporated neighborhoods stretch between bigger municipal centers.

At the center of the community is the Agua Dulce Community Center, a county-run place that has provided services for more than two decades. It offers meeting space, a Community Closet, a hygiene closet, a tool-lending library, and support tied to the county’s colonia self-help program. The surrounding service area includes Agua Dulce Units 1 and 5 and neighboring rural subdivisions. There is no incorporated town hall story here; the practical story is how residents use the community center and school district to make a scattered county place function. Agua Dulce is a name, a ZIP code, and a very specific corner of El Paso County.