Sherwood Movers

Sherwood, More Than an Address

Sherwood by the Numbers

Sherwood is a city of more than 20,000 residents in Washington County, Oregon, covering about 6 square miles south of Tualatin along the OR-99W corridor. OR-99W connects it north to Tigard, Beaverton, and Portland, and south toward Newberg and the Chehalem Valley. The city is entirely within Washington County and Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue provides fire service.

The rapid residential growth of the 1990s and 2000s has filled most of the available land within the city limits, and development has continued in the unincorporated areas of Washington County around the city. The newer subdivisions that ring the original townsite represent the bulk of the city’s housing stock.

The History of the City

Sherwood was established in 1889 when the Southern Pacific Railroad extended its line through the Tualatin Valley and created a station stop on the former Hall family land grant. The station was named Smockville at first, then renamed Sherwood by a settler who chose the name in honor of Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, England. The city incorporated in 1893.

For most of its first century, Sherwood was a small agricultural community serving the farms and orchards of the Tualatin Valley. The population remained in the low hundreds through much of the 20th century. The city’s identity as a bedroom community for Portland workers began in the 1970s and accelerated rapidly in the 1990s as land prices in Tigard and Beaverton pushed home buyers further south.

The Robin Hood theme, embraced formally by the city in the 1980s, has since become one of the more distinctive place-branding exercises in Oregon, with the annual Robin Hood Festival, themed street names, and civic decorations that have made Sherwood recognizable to visitors from across the state.

What a Sherwood Move Actually Involves

Sherwood moves are generally among the more straightforward in the Washington County market. The newer housing stock, which dominates the city, is built on accessible streets with driveways and garages sized for contemporary use.

The main variable in most Sherwood moves is the inventory. Newer homes in the city tend to be larger, with more bedrooms, finished basements, and the full range of contemporary home furnishings. Inventory size rather than access difficulty is usually the planning focus.

OR-99W is the primary arterial, and commute traffic on the corridor affects timing for moves that require travel between Sherwood and the closer-in suburbs. The stretch through Tualatin and Tigard carries the heaviest traffic. We plan transit windows around the morning and afternoon peak hours.

For moves in the small cluster of older homes near the historic downtown and the railroad-era blocks, the characteristics shift: narrower lots, older construction, and less predictable access. We assess these individually.