Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Woodbridge, VA

Woodbridge is a census-designated place in Prince William County, Virginia, an unincorporated community located about 20 miles south of Washington, D.C. between the Occoquan and Potomac rivers, not an incorporated town.

Woodbridge had 44,668 residents in the 2020 census.

Census Bureau QuickFacts counted about 14,324 households in Woodbridge in 2020-2024, averaging 3.07 people per household.

Woodbridge takes its name from Thomas Mason, the youngest son of George Mason IV of Gunston Hall, who named his plantation Woodbridge after the wooden toll bridge he built in 1795 to replace his ferry across the Occoquan River.

Thomas Mason's wooden bridge carried the King's Highway, present-day U.S. Route 1, across the Occoquan River until severe rains washed it away in 1807, and the Mason family kept the Woodbridge plantation until 1851.

The 2010 census reconfigured Woodbridge so that most of its former area became the Marumsco and Neabsco CDPs and its counted population fell to just 4,055, but in 2020 Marumsco was reincorporated into the Woodbridge CDP.

Potomac Mills in Woodbridge is Virginia's largest outlet mall, an indoor center off Interstate 95 with more than 200 stores that opened on September 19, 1985.

Woodbridge is also home to Stonebridge at Potomac Town Center, a second major shopping and dining district.

The Woodbridge campus of Northern Virginia Community College borders the CDP, and Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center, formerly Potomac Hospital, serves the community with capacity for 183 patients.

Leesylvania State Park on the Potomac River in the Woodbridge area was the ancestral home of the Lee family, where Henry Lee II lived and Revolutionary War hero Henry 'Light Horse Harry' Lee was raised.