Woodacre is an unincorporated town and

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(CDP) in

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, United States. The population was 1,410 at the 2020 census.

Geography

The community is located at in the eastern half of the

San Geronimo Valley San Geronimo Valley is located in Marin County, California, composed of four unincorporated towns: Woodacre, California, Woodacre, San Geronimo, California, San Geronimo, Forest Knolls, Marin County, California, Forest Knolls, and Lagunitas, Cali ...

of central Marin County.

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and Lagunitas-Forest Knolls are to its west. Woodacre is located south-southwest of

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, and 8 miles northwest of San Rafael; the nearest incorporated town is Fairfax, east-southeast. At , Woodacre has the highest base elevation in Marin County. According to the

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, the CDP has a total area of , all of it land.

History

The community began when promoters subdivided the place in 1912. In 1923, wildfires burned 35 of the 40 homes in Woodacre. The first post office opened in 1925.

Demographics

2020

The 2020 United States census reported that Woodacre had a population of 1,410. The population density was . The racial makeup of Woodacre was 86.2%

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, 0.3%

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, 0.6% Native American, 2.0% Asian, 0.0%

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, 1.9% from other races, and 9.0% from two or more races.

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of any race were 6.9% of the population. The whole population lived in households. There were 612 households, out of which 20.9% included children under the age of 18, 48.0% were married-couple households, 6.9% were

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couple households, 23.9% had a female householder with no partner present, and 21.2% had a male householder with no partner present. 28.8% of households were one person, and 17.6% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.3. There were 386

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(63.1% of all households). The age distribution was 16.2% under the age of 18, 5.0% aged 18 to 24, 14.9% aged 25 to 44, 32.1% aged 45 to 64, and 31.8% who were 65years of age or older. The median age was 52.9years. For every 100 females, there were 94.2 males. There were 650 housing units at an average density of , of which 612 (94.2%) were occupied. Of these, 75.8% were owner-occupied, and 24.2% were occupied by renters.

2023 estimates

In 2023, the US Census Bureau estimated that the median household income was $225,521, and the

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was $87,336. About 4.5% of families and 8.3% of the population were below the poverty line.

Education

Almost all of the community is in the Lagunitas Elementary School District while a small portion is in the Ross Valley Elementary School District. All of it is in the

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Notable people

* Harold Jones (born 1940), drummer with

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and

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Jack Kornfield Jack Kornfield (born 1945) is an American writer and teacher in the Vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism. He trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma and India, first as a student of the Thai forest master Ajahn Chah and Mah ...

(born 1945), founded

Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock Meditation Center, commonly called Spirit Rock, is a meditation center in Woodacre, California. It focuses on the teachings of the Buddha as presented in the vipassana, or Insight Meditation, tradition.Van Biema, David, "Buddhism ...

in Woodacre in 1987 *

Victor Moscoso Victor Moscoso (born July 28, 1936) is a Spanish–American artist best known for producing psychedelic rock posters, advertisements, and underground comix in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s. He was the first of the rock poster artists of ...

(born 1936), known primarily for psychedelic posters and Zap Comix *

Gage Taylor Gage Taylor (1942 – 2000) was a visionary artist known for his psychedelic-inspired landscapes. Art critic Thomas Albright wrote, "Taylor's landscape fantasies combined profuse detail with heavier, painterly surfaces and achieved a 'naive' and n ...

(1942–2000), artist known for his psychedelic-inspired landscapes *

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(1951–2014), actor; lived in Woodacre as a teenager *

William Windom William Windom may refer to: * William Windom (politician) (1827–1891), U.S. representative from Minnesota * William Windom (actor) (1923–2012), his great-grandson, American actor See also * William Windham (disambiguation) {{hndis, Wi ...

(1923–2012), actor; retired to Woodacre and died there in 2012Eric Grode
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'', August 19, 2012. (Accessed October 29, 2013) *

Clifford Geertz Clifford James Geertz (; August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology and who was considered "for three decades&n ...

(1926-2006), cultural anthropologist; lived in Woodacre as a child and a teenager

References

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