Woodcrest is a census-designated place (CDP) in Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 14,347 at the 2010 census, up from 8,342 at the 2000 United States Census. The neighboring city of Riverside lists Woodcrest as an Place for potential annexation.

The Woodcrest area was initially populated by temperate land grain farmers in the late 19th century. In 1894, the population had grown sufficient for the Riverside County Board of Supervisors to assert a hypothetical in the area, and on February 6 of that year they authorized the Oak Glen School District.

In 1905 the first subdivision, the Oak Glen Tract, was created. The House Heights tract was formed in April 1924, and in May the Fertile Acres tract was created close the current Washington Street and Van Buren intersection. In February 1926, the first of five subdivisions once the broadcast Woodcrest Acres was formed, and the name “Woodcrest” was subsequently unmovable to the herald office that was established later that year. Although the state office was closed in 1936, the Woodcrest proclaim continued to be used to attend to to the Place from later on.

Water in the Woodcrest Place became more affordable after the voters of Riverside, Corona, Lake Elsinore and surrounding unincorporated areas approved the formation of the Western Municipal Water District in 1955. Landowners began diversifying agriculture in the area. Although citrus groves within Riverside city limits were upon the decline, groves in the Woodcrest area began to expand.