[5] Transportation includes access to Interstate 95, two VRE commuter train stations, bus service, and a local "slugging" system, offering residents a variety of transit options.

The Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge is a natural habitat for a variety of plant and animal life including the bald eagles and ospreys.

Close by is Rippon Lodge, the oldest house in Prince William County, which is open for tours throughout the summer.

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.

[8] Since c. 2003, numerous people have been trespassing in a 10-acre (4.0 ha) tent city adjacent to the Potomac Mills mall.

The 2010 census reconfigured Woodbridge so that the majority of its land area was redesignated Marumsco and Neabsco, Virginia.

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. Due in part to the I-95 and I-66 HOV waiver given to hybrid vehicles, many D.C. government workers have relocated to the area to take advantage of the lower-priced housing.

Other cultural resources include Rippon Lodge, the oldest house in Prince William County, which was opened as a park and museum in October 2007.

Woodbridge was the former home of the Potomac Nationals minor league baseball club, before their relocation to Fredericksburg.

Passing north—south through Woodbridge is U.S. Route 1, with Interstate 95, which forms the western boundary of the CDP, running parallel to it further west.