About the town » The Woodlands, Montgomery County, Texas, United States

The Woodlands is a master-planned community and census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Texas in Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. According to The Woodlands Development Company, the population was 107,769 as of a January 2014 estimate, an increase of 68.6% over its population of 55,649 at the 2000 census.It is 28 miles (45 km) north of Houston along Interstate 45. Though it began as a suburban development and a bedroom community, it has also attracted corporations and has several corporate campuses, most notably Chevron Phillips, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Huntsman, Woodforest National Bank, Baker Hughes, CB&I, McKesson Corporation, Hewitt Associates, Maersk Line, and Safmarine. It won a Special Award for Excellence in 1994 from the Urban Land Institute.