A first-ring suburb of the greater Kansas City metropolitan area, the City of Westwood, Kansas was incorporated June 7, 1949 and is governed by a Mayor and five Council members. Westwood is both a residential community of approximately 1,500 people, and a city of business and commerce as it is home to several University of Kansas Hospital Center facilities and other corporate office and retail businesses. At just under one half-square mile of total land area in size, the city's location at the far northeast corner of Johnson County, Kansas provides the combination of pleasant residential environment with ready access to the nearby Country Club Plaza, downtown Kansas City, Missouri, K.U. Medical Center, and other shopping and cultural opportunities within Johnson County and elsewhere in the metropolitan region.