NEIGHBORHOODS AND NEIGHBORS
From great old family homes on tree-shaded streets to quality-built condos and townhomes, Oakwood offers a wide range of desirable housing choices at surprisingly affordable prices. Oakwood's immaculately kept homes continually increase in value, making real estate here a great investment. There are lots of leasing, rental, and temporary executive housing opportunities, too, and property owners' cooperation with the city's high residential inspection standards make every Oakwood home a quality home.
Oakwood is a city of front porches for lingering to watch the fireflies on summer nights, and backyards for barbecuing or lazing in a hammock. You can find just about style of home imaginable, from Tudor to Dutch colonial to Craftsman, from a Cape Cod cottage to an Italianate villa, arranged on neat city blocks or winding hillside roads. The city presents Beautification Awards to residents and businesses during the summer months, but in any season Oakwood offers something beautiful to the eye and welcoming to the heart.
With its family-sized population of 9,000 and its compact area, Oakwood is an intimate residential community of interlocking, diverse neighborhoods. It is a highly walkable community, with schools, shops, houses of worship, parks, and community services all within blocks. And it is a safe community, with historically low crime rates and citizens who watch out for one another. Oakwood kids walk or bike to school (no school buses needed in a city this size) and many walk home for lunch, or to the Gardner Pool at the Oakwood Community Center on summer days.
Oakwood isn't just a city of neighborhoods - it's a neighborly city. Merchants know their customers by name. Neighbors exchange news over coffee at Starbucks, in the aisles of Dorothy Lane Market, or while jogging or dog-walking along Shafor Boulevard. Mothers of young children find a welcome from the MOMs of Oakwood Group, which offers playgroups, fieldtrips, speakers, book and cooking clubs, and MOMs Night Out activities. From the New Residents' Breakfast to the Ice Cream Social that kicks off the school year, from summer block parties to the holiday season Lighting Up of Oakwood, when flickering luminarias line streets lightly brushed with snow, you'll find hundreds of ways to meet your new neighbors and be welcomed home.