It is on the Onkaparinga Valley Road, South Australian route B34, and is 25 km due East of Adelaide's CBD.

Local businesses include Woodside Cheese Wrights, Melbas Chocolate Factory,[4] a Lobethal Bakery and Bird in Hand winery.

[5] It includes Inverbrackie, the site of Woodside Barracks which is the home base of the 16th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery ground-based air defence unit.

The first European explorers through the Woodside district were Dr George Imlay and John Hill in January 1838.

[7] In 1839 the South Australian Company took out several special surveys which secured much of the central Mount Lofty Ranges and the sources of the Onkaparinga.