Parkwood, CA

Parkwood is a Madera County CDP of 2,307 residents in the 2020 census, immediately south of the city of Madera and within the Madera metropolitan area. The place is one of the named communities along the city’s edge, where residential streets meet Madera’s broader road and service network. That border position is the main local fact: Parkwood uses Madera for city-scale services while keeping its own named community identity. Parkwood Elementary gives the area a clear everyday reference point, and Parkwood Park is a county facility within the broader Madera parks system.

Together, the school and county park give the community two easy landmarks for getting oriented day to day. Madera’s downtown, county offices, and commercial streets are close enough to shape ordinary errands, while the surrounding Central Valley remains visible in the roads and open parcels beyond the neighborhood. The local scoop is a suburban-edge community whose identity lives in the school, the county park, and its direct handoff to Madera.