Live in Glenwood

Glenwood, in this guide, is an area the City of Greensboro's own neighborhood map draws: feature 16 on a layer the City publishes for its Neighborhood Traffic Management Program maps, marked unverified, on a map whose companion point layer says its lines are estimated and should not be considered accurate. It is not an association's territory or a plat. The line runs south of West Gate City Boulevard between Coliseum Boulevard and Freeman Mill Road, and in 2020 it held 5,258 residents in 1,862 housing units on 728 acres. The City's Glenwood neighborhood plan covers all of it. Raleigh's Glenwood South is a different place.

It began as a development on farmland. YES! Weekly's 2017 history says plans started in 1908 and the Carolina Real Estate and Investment Company built the first 50 houses in 1909, just outside the city limits; a school followed in 1912, and the Telfair Sanitarium had opened on Glenwood Avenue in 1907. The City's annexation layer puts 4,604 of today's residents on land that came into the city in 1923. The streetcar gave way to a trackless trolley in 1934 and to diesel buses in 1956, and the same history dates the neighborhood's slow decline from then. Residents organized a neighborhood watch in 1977, and the City adopted the Glenwood Neighborhood Plan on 19 February 2008.

Then the university crossed Lee Street. From 2010 UNCG bought more than 100 properties at Glenwood's northern edge and demolished 40 houses, and in the fall of 2013 the first phase of Spartan Village opened along Gate City Boulevard, as West Lee Street is now called, joined to the main campus by a pedestrian tunnel. The university lists four of its halls there with 807 residents. In the 2020 census, 620 of the guide's residents lived inside OpenStreetMap's outline of UNCG's South Campus, and 1,089 lived on five blocks of 100 or more people with at most one housing unit per ten, which is what campus housing looks like in a census; what the blocks outside the campus outline hold was not read. Census tract 115, which holds 3,712 of the residents, counted 39.1% of its people aged three and over in college or graduate school on the 2020 to 2024 survey, with margins of 303 and 93; tract 116.01, with 1,491, counted 11.5%. Those are the tracts' shares, not the guide's.

The schools are the hard part. At the reference point Guilford County Schools zones a child for Peck Elementary, inside the line, Jackson Middle and Smith High, and so it zones all 5,258 residents of 2020. The state graded all three D for 2024-25 and for 2023-24. Peck has a new building, which the County lists among the schools its bonds paid for. Three magnet elementaries are within 3 km, by application and mostly by lottery.

The practical position. Every parcel pays Guilford County 78.95 cents per $100 and the City 79.85 for fiscal 2027, 158.80 in all, with no special district here. Both are charged on the 2022 revaluation's values, because Senate Bill 889 put the County's 2026 values off to the 2027 bills, so a buyer's first bill follows the seller's assessment. North Carolina gives an ordinary buyer no homestead exemption; its relief programs are for owners who are 65, disabled or disabled veterans. Stormwater and garbage come on the City's water bill, read here only secondhand. Five inactive City redevelopment areas hold 1,751 residents; they are funding designations with plans, not tax districts. Only 12 residents of 2020 lived on blocks in a special flood hazard area, though 2.87% of the area is in one. Zillow's typical value for the 27403 ZIP, which holds every resident, was $237,287 in August 2026, down 0.7%: a ZIP figure, not Glenwood's.