Woodbridge

Woodbridge is a census-designated place in Prince William County, Virginia, United States, located 20 miles south of Washington, D.C. The 2010 census reconfigured Woodbridge so that the majority of its land area was redesignated Marumsco and Neabsco, Virginia. The southern border of Woodbridge is now Occoquan Road. The area between Occoquan Road and Opitz Boulevard–Rippon Boulevard is now Marumsco. All of the former Woodbridge CDP south of those streets has been designated as Neabsco. However, these areas continue to have postal addresses in “Woodbridge,” which is served by a post office in Marumsco. Woodbridge was a village composed largely of either farms or industrial complexes. Later, the Woodbridge postal delivery area became the hub that included Dale City and Lake Ridge, which had previously been forged as a planned community in the 1960s and 1970s. The area takes its name from Thomas Mason’s 1795 wooden toll bridge built to supplant the existing ferry, carrying the King’s Highway traffic across the Occoquan River. Mason’s Woodbridge Plantation was located in the area of the present day Belmont Bay golf course community. The Freestone Point Confederate Battery and Rippon Lodge are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $75,525, and the median income for a family was $52,362. Males had a median income of $35,538 versus $28,587 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $19,810. The estimate median house or condo value was $294,156 as of 2008. As of 2013, the average home sale price was $222,940. Woodbridge has 11 public high schools and over 20 elementary and middle schools. Woodbridge experienced its current development boom in the mid-1980s, after being a municipality composed largely of either farms or industrial complexes, as an annex of sorts of Dale City, which had been forged as a planned community in the 1960s and 1970s. Woodbridge is home to Potomac Mills Mall (managed by Simon Property Group), one of the largest shopping centers in northern Virginia. Woodbridge is a suburban city because many of its residents are employed in nearby Washington, D.C.

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