Woodmore is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP 86710) in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 4,513. The CDP is located within the boundaries of Route 193 (Enterprise Road) to the west, Church Road to the east, Route 214 (Central Avenue) to the south and Route 50 to the north. Woodmore Road runs east and west through the center. It contains a large gated community and country club, developments of Woodmore Meadows, and Woodmore South on the south side, as well as various other custom built homes and farmland.
Off Enterprise Road sits the development of Kingsford. It is contiguous with Mitchellville, Maryland CDP, and historically had a Mitchellville mailing address, for many years served by the South Bowie/Mitchellville Post Office with zip code 20721 and has been considered part of Mitchellville. The Woodmore and Mitchellville community is notable as one of the most affluent predominantly African-American communities in the United States.
The gated community "Woodmore" is centered on the Country Club at Woodmore. The community is planned to consist of 398 single-family homes on . The now-defunct Six Flags America was located within the boundaries of the CDP.
History
The first colonial owner of the Woodmore site was Thomas Spriggs, who in 1698 acquired of what was then known as the forest of Prince George's County in the Crown Colony of Maryland.
The first house in the area was a two-story brick house named Pleasant Prospect (still standing at 12806 Woodmore Road)., built c. 1798 by Dr. Isaac Ducket, the husband of Spriggs' granddaughter. He also doubled the size of the estate to over 1,000 acres.
Pleasant Prospect was inherited by Ducket's son-in-law, John Contee, and then by his son, also John Contee, who became indebted and sold the estate to the Bowies, then the Washington D.C. lumber magnates the Walkers. Although the Walker family sold the house in 1982, Walker descendants also continued to own land and farm on the south side of Woodmore Road, part of which farmland was sold to create Woodmore Meadows.
Much of the land in Woodmore prior to the 1980s was owned by various farming families, the most prominent of which being the Walker family and the Shatenstein family, the latter of which owned large tracts of land along the northern and southern boundaries of Woodmore Road.
In 1977 a portion of the Shatenstein property located along the northern boundary of Woodmore Road, was purchased by the county to replace the former Prince George's Golf and Country Club, formerly located in Cheverly. The Country Club at Woodmore was designed and the gated community planned through a joint venture between the County and GolfAmerica, a process which took 15 years as the seven area homeowner associations eventually merged.
Geography
Woodmore is located at (38.934861, −76.778202).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.96%, is water.
Gated community
The Woodmore gated community has about 400 houses, including single family and townhouses. About 33% of the residents of the gated community are members of the Country Club at Woodmore; the two are, as described by Keisha Stewart of The Washington Post, "intertwined". Stewart described the Woodmore gated community as "one of Prince George's County's premier subdivisions" that "represents prestige and accomplishment for some, while for others it is a serene haven."<br> 2010
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!% 2010
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|-
|White alone (NH)
|378
|style='background: #ffffe6; |350
|9.60%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |7.76%
|-
|Black or African American alone (NH)
|3,216
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3,606
|81.71%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |79.90%
|-
|Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)
|11
|style='background: #ffffe6; |6
|0.28%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.13%
|-
|Asian alone (NH)
|78
|style='background: #ffffe6; |91
|1.98%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2.02%
|-
|Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH)
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|Other race alone (NH)
|8
|style='background: #ffffe6; |44
|0.20%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.97%
|-
|Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)
|107
|style='background: #ffffe6; |205
|2.72%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4.54%
|-
|Hispanic or Latino (any race)
|138
|style='background: #ffffe6; |211
|3.51%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4.68%
|-
|Total
|3,936
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4,513
|100.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |100.00%
|}
2020 census
As of the 2020 census, Woodmore had a population of 4,513. The median age was 47.7 years. 20.1% of residents were under the age of 18 and 21.1% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 87.8 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 83.1 males age 18 and over.
100.0% of residents lived in urban areas, while 0.0% lived in rural areas.
There were 1,517 households in Woodmore, of which 30.1% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 58.2% were married-couple households, 10.8% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 28.7% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 18.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
Ancestry
Like most of Prince George's County, there is a significant population of residents with ancestry in Sub-Saharan Africa. 14.4% of the population (607) shares this ancestry with 21% of residents claiming Nigeria as their country of birth. 16.8% of residents claim Sierra Leone as their country of birth. 3.9% of residents claim Ghana as their country of birth.
There is also a significant portion of residents from the West Indies. 16.9% of residents claim Jamaica as their country of birth. 12.7% of residents claim Guyana as their country of birth. 5% of residents claim Trinidad and Tobago as their country of birth.
Education
Woodmore CDP is zoned to schools in the Prince George's County Public Schools. Most of the CDP is zoned to Ernest Everett Just Middle School and Benjamin Tasker Middle School. Most of the CDP is zoned to Charles Herbert Flowers High School, with portions zoned to Bowie High School.
References
External links
- Woodmore Homeowners' Association