Sumac Ridge, Woodstock

A warm south-end pocket with its name borrowed from autumn colours, Juliana Drive's errands just minutes away, and calm streets that make the end of the day feel properly like coming home.

The 2021 census counts about 1,200 homes in Sumac Ridge. About half are single detached houses, about one in five are apartments in buildings of five or more storeys, about one in six are row houses, and about one in nine are apartments in smaller buildings. About three in four were built between 2001 and 2021, and about one in ten between 1991 and 2000.

Woodstock Transit's 6 Southwest route runs along Mill Street and Juliana Drive, and the 7 South Central along Finkle Street. The transit terminal downtown is about 1.9 km away. Mill Street, Finkle Street, Juliana Drive, Ontario Street and Parkinson Road are the main streets.

Kintrea Park on Parkinson Road is the neighbourhood park, and St. Patrick's Catholic School is on Parkinson Road too. The Woodstock District Community Complex and Fanshawe College's Woodstock campus are about 0.5 km away on Finkle Street, and Southside Park about 1 km.

• Southside Public School — JK to Grade 8. The public school for most of Sumac Ridge, including Sales Drive, Ontario Street, Alberta Avenue and Champlain Avenue, on Albert Street.
• Eastdale Public School — JK to Grade 8. The public school for the west side along Mill Street and Bower Hill Road, on Aileen Drive.
• College Avenue Secondary School — Grades 9 to 12. The public secondary school for Sumac Ridge, on College Avenue.
• Oliver Stephens Public School — Grades 1 to 8 in French immersion. The public French immersion school for these streets, on Fyfe Avenue; it also has an English program.
• St. Patrick's Catholic School — JK to Grade 8. The Catholic elementary school for Sumac Ridge, on Parkinson Road.
• Holy Family French Immersion Catholic School — SK to Grade 8 in French immersion. The Catholic French immersion school, on Oxford Street.
• St. Mary's Catholic High School — Grades 9 to 12. The Catholic secondary school, on Juliana Drive, with Extended French.
• Woodstock Collegiate Institute — Grades 9 to 12. The public secondary school on Riddell Street, and Woodstock's public French immersion secondary school.