Southside and Forest Hills below the Durham Freeway, Lakewood Park and Tuscaloosa-Lakewood off Chapel Hill Road, and Rockwood
The city south of the Durham Freeway between US 15-501 and Alston Avenue, up to Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway: Southside and Forest Hills near North Carolina Central, Lakewood Park and Tuscaloosa-Lakewood off Chapel Hill Road, and Rockwood.
Photograph: Duke Chapel on Duke's West Campus, about 2.8 km north of the guide's reference point, not a photograph of Tuscaloosa-Lakewood · Discover Durham · CC BY 4.0 · sourceLakewood, Southside and NCCU is our name for the city south of the Durham Freeway and west of Alston Avenue and NC 55, north of Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway and east of US 15-501, 49,340 residents and 21,418 housing units in 2020. 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. North Carolina Central's campus, 2,463 residents in 2020, and Duke's West Campus, 5,757, are both in this area and in no guide. Southside, the layer's Southside / St. Teresa, is 1,291 residents on 154 acres between South Roxboro Street and Blackwell Street, beside the site of Hayti and about 800 meters from North Carolina Central. Forest Hills is 1,057 residents on 337 acres, 738 of them in the Forest Hills National Register district of 2005 and 95 on blocks in a floodway. Lakewood Park, 1,336 residents on 118 acres around Chapel Hill Road and West Lakewood Avenue, and Tuscaloosa-Lakewood, 1,804 on 223 acres, are separate neighborhoods side by side, and 1,132 of Tuscaloosa-Lakewood's residents live under the City's Tuscaloosa-Lakewood Neighborhood Protection Overlay of 2008. Rockwood, 1,088 residents on 196 acres off University Drive, has one block of 541 residents in flood zone AE, the most of any guide in the city. 5 guides are listed below.
5 communities, guide by guide
Forest Hills
The City's Forest Hills, south of West Lakewood Avenue between Kent Street and South Roxboro Street, around Forest Hills Boulevard and University Drive, 337 acres and 1,057 residents in 2020, with Forest Hills Park inside and 738 of its residents in the Forest Hills National Register district (2005).
- 1,057
- Residents of the 29 census blocks inside the City's Forest Hills neighborhood area, clipped to the City limits, in 445 housing units on 337 acres, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 738
- Of those residents inside the Forest Hills Historic District, listed on the National Register in 2005, which adds no local design review on its own, Durham City-County Planning, read 2026
Lakewood Park
The City's Lakewood Park, between Morehead Avenue, Rosedale Avenue and Bivins Street on both sides of Chapel Hill Road and West Lakewood Avenue, 118 acres and 1,336 residents in 2020, with the Lakewood shopping strip on Chapel Hill Road inside or beside it.
- 1,336
- Residents of the 10 census blocks inside the City's Lakewood Park area, in 615 housing units on 118 acres, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 1902
- Year the Durham Traction Company opened Lakewood Park, its amusement park at the end of the trolley line on Chapel Hill Road, closed about 1934, National Register nomination, North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, 2002
Rockwood
The City's Rockwood, between University Drive and West Cornwallis Road east of Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, around Woodridge Drive and Shoreham Street, 196 acres and 1,088 residents in 2020, with Rockwood Park inside; one block of 541 residents lies in flood zone AE on the City-County map.
- 1,088
- Residents of the 9 census blocks inside the City of Durham's Rockwood neighborhood area, clipped to the City limits, in 482 housing units on 196 acres, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 541
- Of those residents on one census block of 260 housing units whose internal point falls in flood zone AE on the City-County 'Flood Zones (Insurance)' map; a block point, not a house, City of Durham, read 2026
Southside and St. Teresa
The City's Southside / St. Teresa, south of the Durham Freeway between South Roxboro Street and Blackwell Street, around South Street, Fargo Street and Scout Drive, 154 acres and 1,291 residents in 2020, beside the site of Hayti and about 800 m from North Carolina Central University.
- 1,291
- Residents of the 31 census blocks inside the City's Southside / St. Teresa area, in 581 housing units on 154 acres, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 317
- Units the City's Southside Revitalization will total once its last 100 affordable apartments are built, in a request for $3,000,000 made for the City by Rep. Valerie Foushee, May 2025
Tuscaloosa-Lakewood
The City's Tuscaloosa-Lakewood, between Chapel Hill Road and Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, from Bivins Street to James Street and West Cornwallis Road, around Nation Avenue and Huron Street, 223 acres and 1,804 residents in 2020, 1,132 of them under the City's Tuscaloosa-Lakewood Neighborhood Protection Overlay (2008).
- 1,804
- Residents of the 14 census blocks inside the City of Durham's Tuscaloosa-Lakewood neighborhood area, clipped to the City limits, in 711 housing units on 223 acres, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 1,132
- Of those residents inside the Tuscaloosa-Lakewood Neighborhood Protection Overlay, adopted 21 April 2008 (case Z06-46), Durham City-County Planning layer, read 2026
Photographs: The Hayti Heritage Center by Ildar Sagdejev (Specious), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · Duke Gardens by Sdkb, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · The bowl at North Carolina Central by RDUpedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons · Downtown from Southside in the snow by Willthacheerleader18, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.