There were 466 housing units at an average density of 15.5 per square mile (6.0/km 2). The population density was 44.5 per square mile (17.2/km 2). Geography ДЄccording to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 30.08 square miles (77.9В km 2), of which 30.05 square miles (77.8В km 2) is land and 0.03 square miles (0.078В km 2) (0.10%) is water.ДЄs of the census of 2000, there were 1,337 people, 415 households, and 337 families residing in the township. In 1975 the township clerk responded to an inquiry by the Michigan Township Association, who was attempting to validate the oldest town hall still in operation in the state of Michigan and on November 1, 1975, it was verified that the Woodbridge Township Hall was the oldest operational structure. Approximately twenty years later an addition was built onto the original structure and soon after, in 1890, polling booths and a dividing fence were completed. The original structure was constructed using popular, or tulip wood and completed in 1856.

The building committee eventually selected the building site at the corner of Woodbridge and Montgomery roads, just west, and above the St. They also appropriated $10 to purchase a suitable site located in Section 16 of Woodbridge Township. The current Woodbridge Township Hall was built in 1855 after the Woodbridge Township board voted and approved $250 for the construction of a town hall. Clark drove in, and owned, the first span of horses in the township. and Sylvester, and his daughters Rebecca, Sarah and Eliza. Accompanying him were his sons, Robert W. This land was purchased from the federal government and he also erected a small log cabin on this site. The next settler in the township was Jacob Clark, who in December 1836, located upon the north part of Section 13, the present site of the village (unincorporated) of Frontier. Saxon was a veteran of the Black Hawk War and he later settled in Iowa. Prior to his move to Woodbridge Township, Mr. In order to reach his land it required him to cut his own road in order for his team of oxen and sled to pass. He was accompanied by his wife and four young sons: Wallace, James, Stephen and John. He purchased this 160 acres of land from the United States government in 1834 and during the fall of that same year built a log cabin on this site. The first permanent settlement within the present bounds of Woodbridge Township was made by William Saxton, who came from Raisin Township, Lenawee County, Michigan, and settled on the northeast quarter of Section 12, in the winter of 1834вЂ“35. This act shall take effect, and be in force, on and after the first Monday of April next.' Its original limits and the place designated for holding the first township meeting, were by that act as follows: 'All that portion of the county of Hillsdale, designated by the United States survey of townships numbered 7, 8 and fractional township 9 south, of range 3 west, be set off into a separate township, and organized by the name of Woodbridge, and the first township meeting therein shall be held at the house formerly occupied by John McDermaid, in said township.' 'This act shall not in any wise affect the collection of taxes assessed in the county of Hillsdale for the year 1839, or in any township thereof but the same shall be collected as if the act had not be passed. Woodbridge Township was formed by act of the Legislature of the state of Michigan approved on Janufrom a portion of Fayette Township. ( March 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.

Woodbridge township