Sunset Hills and Lindley Park beside UNCG, Starmount Forest, Hamilton Lakes and Guilford Hills
The city west of Elm Street and north of Gate City Boulevard and Interstate 40, outside the core: Sunset Hills and Lindley Park beside UNCG, then Starmount Forest, Hamilton Lakes and Guilford Hills.
Photograph: the Forney House at UNC Greensboro, about 1.3 km southeast of this guide's reference point, not Sunset Hills · Rhpotter · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
West and Northwest is our name for the rest of the city west of Elm Street, north of Gate City Boulevard and Interstate 40, 91,998 residents and 40,892 housing units in 2020, the most of the five. Every guide here is one area of the City's own neighborhood map, which the City describes as estimated and which marks none of these areas verified, so its line is the City's sketch rather than a surveyed or adopted boundary. UNCG's main campus, 4,308 of its 4,416 residents in 2020, and Guilford College's, 1,203, are in this area and in no guide. Sunset Hills, 1,564 residents, and Lindley Park, 3,491, lie beside UNCG and were almost wholly inside the city by 1923, with 1,319 of Sunset Hills' residents in its 2013 National Register district and the Greensboro Arboretum inside Lindley Park. Starmount Forest, 2,865 residents on 813 acres, and Hamilton Lakes, 2,083 on 574, came into the city with the 1957 annexation, as did most of Guilford Hills, 1,841, off Battleground Avenue. None of the five guides has a resident in a special flood hazard area by block. 5 guides are listed below.
5 communities, guide by guide
Guilford Hills
The City's Guilford Hills area south of Benjamin Parkway and west of Battleground Avenue, around Gracewood Drive, North Elam Avenue and West Cornwallis Drive, 346 acres and 1,841 residents in 2020, with General Greene Elementary and Gracewood Park inside.
- 1,841
- Residents at the 2020 census in the 33 blocks inside the City's estimated Guilford Hills line, in 977 housing units, 1.88 a unit, U.S. Census Bureau
- 1957
- Year the land of 1,239 of those 1,841 residents came into the city; 300 were inside by 1923 and 302 came in during 1955 and 1956, City of Greensboro annexation layer, read 2026
Hamilton Lakes
The City's Hamilton Lakes area south of West Friendly Avenue between Muirs Chapel Road and Kemp Road West, around Henderson Road, Lake Hamilton and Lake Euphemia, 574 acres and 2,083 residents in 2020, inside the City since the 1957 annexation.
- 2,083
- Residents at the 2020 census in the 41 blocks whose internal point falls inside the City's Hamilton Lakes line, in 887 housing units, 2.35 to a home, U.S. Census Bureau 2020 blocks against the City of Greensboro's neighborhood layer
- 1925
- The year the Town of Hamilton Lakes was incorporated, on 6 March, on 1,400 to 1,600 acres with 10 miles of road, 4 of them paved, Hamilton Lakes and Parks, read 2026
Lindley Park
The City's Lindley Park area south of West Market Street between South Elam Avenue and South Holden Road, with Spring Garden Street, Walker Avenue and West Wendover Avenue through it, 585 acres and 3,491 residents in 2020, with Lindley Park, the Greensboro Arboretum and two elementary school sites inside.
- 3,491
- Residents of the 61 census blocks inside the City's estimated Lindley Park area, in 1,663 housing units on 585 acres, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 1902
- J. Van Lindley gives 60 acres along Spring Garden Street for an amusement park and lake, opened in June with the Greensboro Electric Company's new streetcar line, O.Henry magazine, 2026
Starmount Forest
The City's Starmount Forest area between West Market Street and West Friendly Avenue on both sides of North Holden Road, around Madison Avenue, Dogwood Drive and Staunton Drive, 813 acres and 2,865 residents in 2020, all of it inside the City since the 1957 annexation.
- 2,865
- Residents at the 2020 census in the 46 blocks whose internal point falls inside the City's Starmount Forest line, in 1,151 housing units, 2.49 to a home, U.S. Census Bureau 2020 blocks against the City of Greensboro's neighborhood layer
- 1930
- The year Starmount Forest Country Club, founded by Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Benjamin, opened its course, on 1 August; the course is inside the guide's line, Starmount Forest Country Club, read 2026
Sunset Hills
The City's Sunset Hills area south of West Friendly Avenue, west of South Josephine Boyd Street to Elam Avenue and Lindell Road, with West Market Street through it, 271 acres and 1,564 residents in 2020, 1,319 of them inside the Sunset Hills National Register district (2013).
- 1,564
- Residents of the 51 census blocks inside the City's estimated Sunset Hills area, in 680 housing units on 271 acres, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 1,319
- Of those residents inside the Sunset Hills Historic District, listed on the National Register on 14 January 2013, City of Greensboro GIS from the State Historic Preservation Office, 2026
Photographs: The Tanger Bicentennial Garden by Nyttend, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons · The former Pomona High School by Nyttend, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons · The Greensboro Arboretum by Ptncsu12, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
