The largest subdivision inside the Town of Vienna — about 1,384 addresses recorded across sixteen sections between 1951 and 1960.
Listing sites tend to hand Vienna Woods a single founding year, and 1954 is the one that turns up most often. The recorded plats tell a longer story: sixteen sections went on record between 1951 and 1960, and the result is the largest subdivision inside the Town of Vienna at roughly 1,384 addresses. That matters when you are shopping here, because Vienna Woods behaves less like one subdivision than like a neighborhood assembled in installments — street patterns, lot shapes and house vintages shift from one section to the next.
Because the sections went to record across nine years, “Vienna Woods, 1954” on a listing describes one slice of the neighborhood rather than the whole of it. The practical move is to ask which section a house sits in and pull that section’s plat: lot widths, the setbacks as originally drawn, easements and the position of the street right-of-way were all fixed section by section. Two houses three blocks apart can differ by the better part of a decade in age and by a real margin in lot dimension. All of the addresses sit inside the town limits, which settles the tax and permit question in one direction — a Vienna Woods owner gets a town real estate tax bill on top of the Fairfax County bill, and a renovation goes through two reviews rather than one. The Vienna community page walks through how that split works.
Vienna Woods is zoned RS-10 under the town zoning code, and on a street where infill builders are buying the parcel rather than the structure, that district letter carries weight. The town’s tree conservation ordinance — Chapter 17 of the town code, adopted April 29, 2024 and effective July 29, 2024 — requires a project that disturbs 2,500 square feet or more of land to cover a share of the site with tree canopy measured twenty years out, and as adopted that share is 20 percent in RS-10, against 25 percent in the RS-16 and RS-12.5 districts. The 2024 ordinance also added a duty to try to preserve existing trees before replacing them. If you are buying a rebuild candidate, that changes what fits on the lot before an architect draws anything. Confirm the current standards with Town of Vienna Planning and Zoning.
As of August 2026 Vienna Woods does not share one elementary school. Part of the neighborhood is assigned to Cunningham Park Elementary and part to Marshall Road Elementary, with both parts continuing to Thoreau Middle School and Madison High School. The division runs by parcel rather than by platted section, so two houses facing each other across a street can be assigned differently. It is also a moving target: the Fairfax County School Board approved its first comprehensive boundary plan in roughly four decades on January 22, 2026, with changes phasing in grade by grade beginning with the 2026-27 school year. Check the specific address in the FCPS boundary locator rather than relying on any published list, this one included.
The Cunningham Park pool sits at 123 Harmony Drive SW, inside the subdivision rather than out at its edge. It is a swim club, and its membership terms, waiting list and dues are the club’s own to publish; buying a house in Vienna Woods does not by itself convey anything at the pool, and a seller’s membership should not be assumed to transfer. If water access is part of why a particular street appeals to you, ask the club what its current terms are before you write the offer.
Vienna Woods sits within Vienna — that guide covers the zoning, permitting and site constraints that apply across the wider area.
Artur can confirm what applies to a specific address here — lot, zoning, association documents and school assignment — before you write an offer.
