Live in Parkwood

Parkwood was drawn before it was built. Equitable Construction Company, a Greensboro firm, recorded its first Parkwood restrictions on 1 July 1960 and then a fuller Declaration of Restrictions dated 15 August 1960, which created the Parkwood Association to run the shared land. The association says Parkwood was originally designed as the primary neighborhood for employees of Research Triangle Park, founded the year before. The park's boundary is 1.8 km from this guide's point today, but Parkwood is not in it: Parkwood is in the City of Durham, and a 1985 act bars any adjoining city from annexing the park.

The line on this page is the City's, not the association's. It is feature 153 on the City of Durham's Neighborhoods layer, a reference layer the City publishes for its work-order system with no date, no author and no definition of a neighborhood, clipped to the current City limits. It is not the land the 1960 declaration covers or a plat, and nothing here claims to know where residents think the name ends. It holds 670 acres south of NC 54 and west of NC 55, with Grandale Drive along much of its edge and Revere, McCormick, Euclid and Newhall Roads through it. At the 2020 census it held 2,486 residents in 1,053 housing units, 2.36 to a home.

The covenant is the thing a buyer is choosing. Article Seven of the declaration charges every parcel an annual assessment that the association's board fixes from year to year, due on 1 January or in twelve installments, and makes it a continuing lien that passes to each new owner. The 1960 text allows only detached single-family houses of up to two and a half stories on the numbered lots. In return the association lists more than 100 acres of shared parkland, four playgrounds, a ballfield, trails, a lake and ponds where swimming is barred, and a community center at 1417 Seaton Road. Its payments page says 2026 dues are now late, but no page read gives the amount, so ask the seller for the current charge and the last statement.

What is not known. The County's rate history lists a Parkwood fire tax district at 11 to 11.5 cents per $100 from 2004 to 2015, now folded into the County's fire and rescue district, which suggests the area was once outside the City; when the City annexed the land under this line was not read, and the County's tax district layer now puts all of it in the City. Flood is a real but small question: 9.25% of the area is in the special flood hazard area, almost two thirds of that in the floodway, and 51 residents of 2020 lived on blocks whose internal point is in it. The point itself is zone X on panel 3720072700L, one of the Wake County line panels, effective 19 July 2022. No flood history for these streams was read.

The practical position is a car. No GoDurham stop is inside the line; the nearest is NC 55 at Sedwick Road, 1.12 km from the point, where route 12 runs every 30 minutes at midday and rides are fare-free through June 2027. The tax bill is two lines: Durham County's 57.92 cents and the City's 43.71, 101.63 per $100, on values from the 1 January 2025 revaluation, which hold until 2029. Stormwater comes on the City utility bill. Zillow's typical value for ZIP code 27713 was $415,724 in August 2026, down 3.7% on the year, ZIP-wide and condominiums included; no sale price follows this line.