Live in Woodcroft

Woodcroft, on this page, is the area the City of Durham's own Neighborhoods layer draws north of NC 54 along Woodcroft Parkway, between Highgate Drive and Rollingwood Drive: 516 acres holding 2,929 residents in 1,585 housing units at the 2020 census. The City publishes that layer for its work-order system with a name and nothing else, no date, no author and no definition of a neighborhood, and this guide clips it to the current city limits. It is not the homeowners association's territory, and this guide claims nothing about where residents think Woodcroft ends.

It was planned whole, in 1984. East West Partners, a Chapel Hill developer, built Woodcroft as a mixed-use community: homes at several price points, office buildings, and walking trails along the main roads and through the woods. By a 2017 INDY Week account it covers about 860 acres and just over 2,000 households, roughly half of them in single-family houses, so the community is larger than the City's line, and the line's 1.85 residents per home, against Hope Valley's 2.54, reflect its townhouses and smaller households. Holy Infant Catholic Church, on Southpark Drive, is inside the line.

The association is the constraint a buyer signs. The Woodcroft Community Association maintains about six miles of trails with exercise stations, soccer fields, monument signs, common areas and roadside landscaping, and rents storage for boats and trailers. It also writes the rules: INDY Week reported that its architectural guidelines, three pages a few years in, had grown to thirty-three by 2017, when it moved against front-yard gardens. What membership costs was not read, nor whether a section adds an association of its own. Ask the seller for every assessment and the current guidelines before you offer. There is no local or National Register historic district in the line, so the City adds no design review of its own.

The creek is mapped, the houses mostly are not. Third Fork Creek crosses the line, and on the City's flood layer, drawn on FEMA's 2018 maps, 14.3% of the guide is in the special flood hazard area, half of it floodway. No 2020 resident lived on a block inside it, and the reference point is in zone X. A block is not a house, though: look up the address on FEMA's map. No flood history for the creek was read.

Southpoint is the neighbor, Research Triangle Park is not the address. The Streets at Southpoint, a regional mall in no guide, is about 815 m from the line; Research Triangle Park is 4.6 km from the reference point, and the City may not annex it. The tax bill is the plain City rate, 101.63 cents per $100 for fiscal 2027, on values the 2025 revaluation set at market as of 1 January 2025, and North Carolina has no homestead exemption for an ordinary buyer. Zillow's $415,724 for August 2026 is the whole 27713 ZIP, condominiums included. No GoDurham stop is inside the line; the nearest, on Fayetteville Road 0.76 km from the reference point, has Route 5 every 15 minutes at midday, fare-free through June 2027.