Asbury Temple on South Alston Avenue
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Old East Durham off Angier Avenue, and Brightleaf at the Park and Grove Park out toward the Wake County line

The city east of Alston Avenue and NC 55 and south of Interstate 85, out past the East End Connector to the Wake County line: Old East Durham off Angier Avenue, Brightleaf at the Park and Grove Park.

Photograph: Asbury Temple on South Alston Avenue, roughly 6 km west, not a photograph of Brightleaf at the Park · Ildar Sagdejev (Specious) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

East Durham is our name for the whole of the city east of Alston Avenue and NC 55 and south of Interstate 85, out past the East End Connector and US 70 to the Wake County line, which is far wider than Old East Durham, the old town the first guide here covers: 76,912 residents and 33,156 housing units in 2020, with the city's 269 Wake County residents, who pay Wake County's rate rather than Durham County's. Every guide here is one neighborhood of the City's Neighborhoods layer, a reference map the City keeps for its own work orders with no published date, author or definition of a neighborhood, clipped to the current City limits, so its line is the City's working label rather than an adopted boundary or an association's territory. Old East Durham is 2,267 residents on 287 acres off Angier Avenue and East Main Street, 1,709 of them in the East Durham National Register district of 2004. Brightleaf at the Park, 1,612 residents on 334 acres off Sherron Road, is a planned subdivision about 3.2 kilometers from Research Triangle Park, and not the Brightleaf district downtown. Grove Park is the city's 639 of the development's 905 acres, 2,641 residents, with 129 on blocks in the floodway of Little Lick Creek and about 460 more of the development's residents living outside the city. This is where the city is growing at its edge: 2,713 of the 3,067 residents on land annexed since the 2020 census are in East Durham. With three guides for 76,912 residents, this area grows next. 3 guides are listed below.

The guides

3 communities, guide by guide

Old East Durham off Angier Avenue, and Brightleaf at the Park and Grove Park out toward the Wake County line

Brightleaf at the Park

The City's Brightleaf at the Park, a planned subdivision off Sherron Road and Northern Durham Parkway on the city's east side, around Prospect Parkway and Golden Belt Parkway, 334 acres and 1,612 residents in 2020, about 3 km from Research Triangle Park.

1,612
Residents at the 2020 census in the 20 populated blocks whose internal point falls inside the City's Brightleaf at the Park line and the current City limits, in 581 housing units, 2.77 to a home, U.S. Census Bureau 2020 blocks against the City of Durham's Neighborhoods layer
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Residents of 2020 on a block whose internal point is in a special flood hazard area; none of the area is in one, and 5.81% is in the 0.2% annual chance zone, City of Durham flood insurance layer and FEMA, 2026
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Old East Durham off Angier Avenue, and Brightleaf at the Park and Grove Park out toward the Wake County line

Grove Park

The city's share of the Grove Park development between Wake Forest Highway (NC 98), Holder Road and Stallings Road, around Oak Grove Parkway and Nichols Farm Drive, 639 of its 905 acres and 2,641 residents in 2020, with the County's East Regional Library inside; 459 more residents of the feature live outside the city.

2,641
Residents of the 25 census blocks inside the City's Grove Park area and inside the City limits, in 1,033 housing units on 639 acres; 459 more residents of the area live outside the city, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
129
Of those residents on blocks whose point is in the floodway of Little Lick Creek, with 21.7% of the guide's area in FEMA's special flood hazard area, City of Durham flood zone layer, read 2026
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Old East Durham off Angier Avenue, and Brightleaf at the Park and Grove Park out toward the Wake County line

Old East Durham

The City's Old East Durham, between Holloway Street and East Pettigrew Street from Plum Street east to Briggs Avenue, around Driver Street, Angier Avenue and East Main Street, 287 acres and 2,267 residents in 2020, most of them inside the East Durham National Register district (2004).

2,267
Residents of the 52 census blocks inside the City's Old East Durham area, clipped to the City limits, in 964 housing units on 287 acres, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
1,709
Of those residents inside the East Durham National Register Historic District, listed in 2004; no local historic district covers any of the guide, Durham City-County Planning, read 2026
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Photographs: Asbury Temple on South Alston Avenue by Ildar Sagdejev (Specious), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.