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Woodside town, California: commercial real estate data.
Woodside town is a Census town of 5,126 people across 11.47 square miles of land, in San Mateo County. Median household income is $250,001, 87.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 5 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $3.3 m.
70 sourced place values · tier FULL · 8 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Woodside
What Woodside is
- Census place typetown
- Land area11.47 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land447
- County holding the largest share of its areaSan Mateo County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Woodside
How many people live in Woodside
- Population5,126
- Median age46.4
- Population under 181,135
- Share under 1822.1 percent
- Population 65 and over1,211
- Share 65 and over23.6 percent
- Households1,784
- Family households1,409
- Share of households that are families79.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Woodside
Income and work in Woodside
- Median household income$250,001
- Per capita income$163,375
- Civilian labor force2,424
- Employed2,363
- Unemployed61 plus or minus 61
- Unemployment rate2.5 percent plus or minus 2.5
- Adults 25 and over3,612
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher98.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher76.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree42.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Woodside
- Housing units2,062
- Occupied units1,784
- Vacant units278 plus or minus 119
- Vacancy rate13.5 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Owner occupied1,560
- Renter occupied224 plus or minus 83
- Ownership rate87.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$2,000,001
- Median gross rent, monthly$3,501
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.8 percent
- Single family units2,023
- Share single family98.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more39 plus or minus 39
- Share in buildings of two or more1.9 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1965
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Woodside gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,634
- Commuting under 15 minutes227 plus or minus 82
- Share commuting under 15 minutes13.9 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more614 plus or minus 151
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more37.6 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Drove alone57.8 percent
- Carpooled6.1 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Public transport2.1 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Walked2.4 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Worked from home30.5 percent plus or minus 7.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Woodside
SBA loans in Woodside (7(a))
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$3,259,000
- Average approval$651,800
- Median approval$350,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,317,000
- Largest approval$2,317,000
- Jobs supported63
- Jobs per approval12.6
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more20.0 percent
- Share to franchises20.0 percent
- Distinct lenders5
- Distinct industries by NAICS5
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Woodside
Flood risk in Woodside
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number060330
- Currently effective map date10/16/12
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
San Mateo County, not Woodside
San Mateo County context, not Woodside figures
These are San Mateo County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Woodside measurements.
- Establishments in San Mateo County21,569
- Employment at those establishments, San Mateo County477,938
- Covered employment, San Mateo County416,422
- Average annual pay, San Mateo County$196,441
- Average weekly wage, San Mateo County$3,778
- Housing units permitted, San Mateo County1,088
- Of those, single family, San Mateo County521
- County product, 2024, San Mateo County$217,017,754,000
- County product change over the prior year, San Mateo County11.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, San Mateo County$211,636
Every figure in this section is published for San Mateo County as a whole and is not a measurement of Woodside. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Woodside questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Woodside, California?
5,126, in 1,784 households. Woodside town covers 11.47 square miles of land, which is 447 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Woodside in?
San Mateo County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Woodside?
$250,001. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $2,000,001. Median gross rent is $3,501 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Woodside businesses?
5 7(a) approvals totalling $3.3 m, across 5 lenders, median approval $350,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Woodside, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Woodside borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Woodside. only 1 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Is Woodside in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Woodside appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 060330, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Woodside figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for San Mateo County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Woodside.
Is zoning published for Woodside?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.