Woodlands, California

About Woodlands

Woodlands is a small unincorporated community in southern California.

Woodlands holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 1.65 square miles.

📰 Woodlands News Today

• Ancient knowledge of oak woodlands The Wildlife Society · Apr 29
• Trading Screens for Oak Woodlands and Grasslands National Audubon Society · Jan 12
• Dry‐season grazing enhances native diversity in invaded oak woodlands besjournals · Nov 11
• The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival Returns With a California Original — Meet Featured Artist Taman VanScoy PaperCity Magazine · Mar 10
• Oaks Protect Us Sierra Club · Nov 7

Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.

What Makes Woodlands Unique

• The only place in America named Woodlands — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Positioned in southern California, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Small-town pace of life: less traffic, more community, and neighbors who wave.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 4 miles.

⚡ Quick Facts

🗺️ Map of Woodlands

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