WoodlandsCA
A town of 2,061.
Is Woodlands a good place to live?
Woodlands’ best subject grade is an A− for incomes; its weakest is a D− for cost of living. 76% of residents are 65 or older in Woodlands, against 16% in California’s towns and 18% across U.S. towns. Among 848 California towns, just 2 have a higher median age than Woodlands. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 81% of U.S. communities, with drought at the top. Woodlands’ trail density is 5.7 miles per square mile, where California’s towns sit at 1.0 and U.S. towns at 0.4. On history, just 98 of California’s 1,063 towns do worse. Woodlands has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Woodlands stand out
Where Woodlands beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Woodlands for work
Where Woodlands’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Woodlands grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Woodlands is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Woodlands: who provides what
Woodlands is unincorporated, so San Luis Obispo County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Woodlands.
Very high risk in Woodlands, with drought at the top
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Woodlands’ workers commute out
Most working residents leave Woodlands for work: only 1% work in town. Woodlands’ median household income is $137,000. The top destinations are Santa Maria (17%), San Luis Obispo (11%) and Los Angeles (5%).
| Woodlands | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $137,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 5.4% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 23 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.1% | 6.6% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
A smaller share of adults binge drink in Woodlands than in most of California or the rest of the country
9.8% of Woodlands adults binge drink. Woodlands beats the California average on 16 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 8. 25% of Woodlands adults sleep under 7 hours.
| Woodlands | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 17% | 17% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 9.8% | 16% | 16% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 35% | 36% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 47% | 31% | 35% |
| What stands out | Woodlands | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 5.5% | 14.9% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 4.1% | 10.6% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 16.3% | 6.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Woodlands has mild winters and pleasant summers
Woodlands has warm winters and cool summers, with very little rain. The July high in Woodlands is 70°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
A home in Woodlands sells for about $1.58M at the median
89% of households own their home in Woodlands.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Woodlands has set aside 0% of its land for conservation
9.1 miles of trail in 0 parks and preserves.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa and 10 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Woodlands. Close and well known come first.
19 mi MuseumMission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa29 mi LandmarkLanding of the first Filipinos
24 mi State parkMontaña de Oro State Park
in town MuseumDana Adobe
18 mi MuseumSan Luis Obispo Railroad Museum
19 mi MuseumVandenberg Space Launch Complex 10Photo credits
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa: Stephen Lea, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Montaña de Oro State Park: BorisFromStockdale, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Dana Adobe: Ken Figlioli, CC BY-SA 2.0 · San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum: SLOGlen, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 10: U.S. Air Force, Public domain
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Everything we know about Woodlands
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Woodlands
About 1 of every 100 Woodlands residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
About Woodlands
Census-designated place in California, United States
Woodlands is a census-designated place in San Luis Obispo County, California. "The Woodlands" is a 956-acre master planned community with single- and multi-family homes, a resort hotel, retail and office space, located adjacent to Nipomo, California. Woodlands sits at an elevation of 282 feet (86 m). The 2020 United States census reported Woodlands's population was 1,933.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Elevation
- 282 ft
- Area code
- 805
Woodlands’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Woodlands.
Woodlands and Callender have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Woodlands, Nipomo and Callender report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Woodlands with a neighbor →
Questions about Woodlands
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Woodlands, CA expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $1,162,000, 53% above the California typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D−.