Live in New Irving Park
Irving Park's name carried north of Cone Boulevard onto land the city took in with the 1957 annexation: larger households, a middle school inside the line, and a bus stop more than a kilometer away.
New Irving Park is the City of Greensboro's name, on its own estimated neighborhood map, for 621 acres north of West Cone Boulevard and west of North Elm Street, around Willoughby Boulevard and Round Hill Road: 2,336 residents in 860 housing units at the 2020 census, 2.72 to a home against 2.27 across the city. All of it came into the city with the 1957 annexation, and none of it is in the 1995 Irving Park National Register district south of Cone Boulevard, whose history ends in 1941. When its streets were laid out and its houses built is not in any source this guide could read. Mendenhall Middle is inside the line, the point is zoned for Irving Park Elementary, Mendenhall and Page High, and the nearest served bus stop is 1.22 km from the point.
Irving Park's name, carried north onto land the city took in in 1957
The area labeled New Irving Park on the City of Greensboro's neighborhood map (feature 189 of the hosted layer used for the City's Neighborhood Traffic Management Program, marked VERIFIED NO), clipped to the current City limits, 621 acres: an estimate the City drew by hand, which its own point layer says should not be considered accurate, and not an association's territory or a plat. On the City's street centerlines the line runs along West Cone Boulevard and Marston Road on the south, North Elm Street on the east, Pisgah Church Road, Waldron Drive and part of Willoughby Boulevard on the north and Wynnewood Drive on the west, each for 300 m or less; for most of its length it runs behind lots rather than down streets, and what it follows there was not traced. Willoughby Boulevard (about 4.5 km of it), Round Hill Road, Wynnewood Drive, Waldron Drive, St. Regis Road and Primrose Avenue run through it. The whole guide is in Guilford County, Guilford County Schools and the 27408 ZIP code.
New Irving Park is a line on the City's own estimated map. The City of Greensboro draws it on the neighborhood layer published for its traffic-calming program, marked unverified, and its point layer warns that the shapes should not be considered accurate. Clipped to the City limits it covers 621 acres north of West Cone Boulevard and west of North Elm Street, around Willoughby Boulevard and Round Hill Road, and held 2,336 residents in 860 housing units in 2020. It touches its named streets only briefly and mostly runs behind lots. It is not an association's territory or a plat, and this guide claims nothing about where residents think the name ends. No OpenStreetMap place sits inside it, so distances here run from the population-weighted center of its census blocks.
The name is older than the place. Irving Park began south of Cone Boulevard in 1911, around the Greensboro Country Club, and the National Register nomination for that older district describes John Nolen's plan of about 1914 as running from Cornwallis Drive south. It says nothing of the land north of Cone Boulevard. All of New Irving Park came into the city with the 1957 annexation, in a decade when Greensboro grew from 74,389 people to 119,574, and Page High School, its high school zone today, opened in September 1958. When its streets were laid out and its houses built is not in any source this guide could read: Guilford County's parcel servers did not answer, and no history of the subdivision was found. None of its residents is in the 1995 Irving Park Historic District, and no City local historic district reaches here.
It is a place of larger households. The 2020 census counted 2.72 residents per home, against 2.37 in Old Irving Park and 2.27 across the city, with no block that looks like group quarters. The census tracts that hold it count 4.3% and 6.0% of their people in college, both with wide margins. Mendenhall Middle is inside the line on Willoughby Boulevard; the elementary zone, Irving Park Elementary, is 2.35 km south across Cone Boulevard.
The tax bill is on 2022 values, for one more year. Guilford County's 78.95 cents and the City's 79.85 make 158.80 cents per $100 for fiscal 2027, charged on the 2022 revaluation's values because Senate Bill 889 put the 2026 reappraisal off to the 2027 bills. Buying does not reset the assessment, so the seller's bill is the guide to the first one, and the next will be on a new value at a rate not yet set. North Carolina has no homestead exemption for an ordinary buyer; the County's relief programs are for low-income older owners, owners with disabilities and disabled veterans. Stormwater and solid waste come on the City's water bill, read only secondhand and not quoted here. Nobody publishes a sale price for this neighborhood: Zillow's typical value for the whole 27408 ZIP was $346,268 in August 2026, a ZIP figure that includes Old Irving Park, not this guide's. Association dues, if any, were not read.
This is a driving neighborhood. No bus stops inside the line; the nearest served stop is Route 3 at Berryman Street and North Elm, 1.22 km from the point, every 30 minutes at midday, and Route 17 on Lawndale Drive is hourly. The nearest supermarket, a Food Lion on North Elm Street, is 1.42 km away, and Moses Cone Hospital 3.23 km. No resident lived on a block in a mapped flood hazard area in 2020, and the point is in zone X on a panel effective 10 June 2026.
- Walk or drive the route to Route 3 on North Elm Street from the house itself before counting on the bus
- Work the 2026 bill from the seller's assessment at 158.80 cents per $100, and expect the 2027 bill to move on the 2026 value
- Ask the seller when the house was built and what the deed restricts; this guide found no published history of the subdivision
- Look the address up on the state's Flood Risk Information System; the creek corridor carries the mapped hazard
- Confirm the school zones with the district's own locator: the middle school is inside the line, the elementary is across Cone Boulevard
How New Irving Park got here
- 1911Irving Park begins south of today's Cone Boulevard, when the Greensboro Country Club buys 58.52 acres from A. M. Scales on 22 April.
- 1914The Irving Park Company is incorporated on 2 June and hires John Nolen, whose plan, by the National Register nomination's description, runs from North Elm Street west to Battleground Avenue and from Cornwallis Drive south. The nomination does not describe the land north of Cone Boulevard.
- 1940The Irving Park Company, in receivership through the Depression, is dissolved.
- 1950The census counts 74,389 people in Greensboro.
- 1957The annexation that brings all of New Irving Park's land into the city, on the City's historical annexation layer.
- 1958Walter Hines Page Senior High School opens in September with about 500 students; it is the high school zone for every New Irving Park resident today.
- 1960The census counts 119,574 people in Greensboro, about 45,000 more than in 1950, a decade that includes the 1957 annexation.
- 1995The Irving Park Historic District, south of Cone Boulevard, is listed on the National Register on 21 February. None of New Irving Park's residents is in it.
- 2026New FEMA flood map panels take effect on 10 June, and Senate Bill 889, signed on 19 June, holds the County's 2026 reappraisal back from the 2026 tax bills.
The open space is a small park next door and a large one 3 km away
OpenStreetMap maps no named park inside the line. The nearest is Carolina Laurel Park on Waldron Drive, 0.42 km from the point, and Pisgah Church Road Park is 1.56 km north. The large open space is Country Park, about 3 km northwest beside the Greensboro Science Center, with Lake Brandt beyond it.
What the map does not show: what the two small parks hold was not read. Under 1% of the area lies in the mapped flood hazard area, and half of that is floodway, along the creek rather than under houses.
25 places, with real drive times
Road-adjusted distance and drive time from the centre of the community to each destination, nearest first. Filter by category.
Showing 1–12 of 25 places, nearest first.
Method: distances and drive times are computed from the population-weighted center of New Irving Park's 2020 census blocks, using straight-line distance multiplied by a road factor and a tiered speed model: honest ranges, not routed times. Bus distances are to the nearest stop on each route.
Every gym within reach
There is no City recreation center or pool inside the line. The nearest center is Lewis Recreation Center on Forest Lawn Drive, 2.69 km west, open weekdays to 10 p.m.; the nearest City pool is the indoor one at the Smith Active Adult Center on Fairview Street, 3.13 km away. The YMCA of Greensboro's branches are downtown and on Horse Pen Creek Road. Pool seasons and fees were not read.
- Lewis Recreation Center, 3110 Forest Lawn Drive: weekdays 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
- Smith Active Adult Center, 2401 Fairview Street: indoor pool, call for hours
- Alex W. Spears III Family YMCA, 3216 Horse Pen Creek Road
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Lewis Recreation Center open | The nearest City recreation center, at 3110 Forest Lawn Drive, 2.69 km west, open on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. and on Saturday mornings, on the City's facility layer. | 6–9 min |
| Smith Active Adult Center open | The City's active adult center at 2401 Fairview Street, with the nearest City pool, an indoor one, 3.13 km away. Who may use it, and its hours, fees and pool schedule, were not read: the City's layer says to call for hours. | 6–10 min |
| Craft Recreation Center open | A City recreation center at 3911 Yanceyville Street, east across North Elm Street. The City's layer says to call for hours. | 7–11 min |
| Kathleen Price Bryan Family YMCA open | The YMCA of Greensboro's downtown branch at 501 West Market Street. Its facilities and fees were not read. | 9–14 min |
| Alex W. Spears III Family YMCA open | The YMCA of Greensboro's branch at 3216 Horse Pen Creek Road, northwest. Its facilities and fees were not read. | 11–17 min |
The free option is Country Park, the nearest large park, about 3 km northwest.
The middle school is inside the line, and the rest are south
Guilford County Schools assigns by the attendance zone of the home. On its 2026-27 layers the point and all 2,336 residents are zoned for Irving Park Elementary on Sunset Drive (C for 2024-25, D for 2023-24), Mendenhall Middle, inside the line (D both years), and Page High (B, after C). These are NC School Report Card grades for 2024-25 and 2023-24; DPI released the 2025-26 grades in September 2026, but no school-level file of them was found.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Mendenhall Middle School | Guilford County Schools | The point is zoned for Mendenhall Middle on the district's 2026-27 layer, and so are all 2,336 residents of 2020. The school is inside the line at 205 Willoughby Boulevard, 0.89 km from the point. NC DPI graded it D for 2024-25 (score 46, growth not met) and D for 2023-24. |
| Irving Park Elementary School | Guilford County Schools | The elementary zone for the point and every resident, at 1310 Sunset Drive south of Cone Boulevard, 2.35 km away in a straight line, with pre-kindergarten. Graded C for 2024-25 (score 57, growth met) and D for 2023-24. |
| Page High School | Guilford County Schools | Walter Hines Page High School, 201 Alma Pinnix Drive, 2.08 km southeast, is the high school zone for every resident. Graded B for 2024-25 (score 72, growth exceeded) and C for 2023-24. |
| General Greene Science and Technology Elementary | Guilford County Schools | A magnet elementary on Benjamin Parkway, 2.81 km away, open by application in the district's fall choice window; most choice seats are filled by lottery. Graded B for 2024-25. |
Run the exact address through the district's School Assignment Locator. Choice programs, including the science and technology magnet at General Greene Elementary on Benjamin Parkway, take applications in the fall, and most seats are filled by lottery.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel: the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- Highs near 9.6 °C and lows near -1.1 °C at Piedmont Triad International, with 19.5 nights at or below freezing on the 1991 to 2020 normal
- About 7 cm of snow on the January normal, the snowiest month, of 18 cm in an average year
- The 2026 reappraisal values the County mailed in February 2026 go on the 2027 bills, not the 2026 ones
- Highs near 11.8 °C and 15.1 freezing nights on the normal
- About 5 cm of snow on the normal
- A walk to the bus on North Elm Street, 1.22 km from the point, is longest in the cold
- Highs near 16.3 °C, 94 mm of rain and 8 freezing nights on the normal
- Spring listings appear; ask the seller for the 2025 and 2026 tax bills, which are on the same value
- About 2 cm of snow is still on the March normal
- Highs near 21.7 °C and 1.1 freezing nights, the last of the season on the normal
- 96 mm of rain on the April normal
- Zillow's typical value for the 27408 ZIP rose 0.8% in the year to August 2026, a ZIP figure and not this neighborhood's
- Highs near 25.6 °C and 89 mm of rain
- Guilford County's property tax relief programs for low-income older owners, owners with disabilities and disabled veterans take applications each year until 1 June
- No frost on the normal from May to September
- Highs near 29.6 °C and 104 mm of rain, with 6.6 days at or above 32 °C
- The City and the County adopt the next year's rates: in 2026, the City on 16 June and the County on 25 June
- The Eastern Festival of Music opens its 2027 season at Guilford College on 26 June
- The hottest month: highs near 31.4 °C and 13.7 days at or above 32 °C on the normal
- Downtown Greensboro's Fun Fourth Festival fills Elm Street on 4 July, with the Freedom Run in the morning
- 106 mm of rain on the July normal
- Highs near 30.3 °C and 111 mm of rain, the wettest summer month
- Greensboro and the County give a 1% discount for paying the tax bill before 1 September
- June to September are the four wettest months on the normal; a heavy rain is the time to see how a lot drains
- The wettest month on the normal, 117 mm
- The North Carolina Folk Festival takes over downtown in September; it ran 18 to 20 September in 2026, and the 2027 dates are not posted
- Highs near 26.9 °C
- Highs near 21.7 °C and 79 mm of rain
- North Carolina A&T's homecoming week, 25 October to 1 November in 2026, with the game at Truist Stadium on 31 October
- 0.5 freezing nights on the October normal, the first of the season
- Highs near 15.9 °C and 7.7 freezing nights on the normal
- Leaf season in a neighborhood where no park is inside the line; Carolina Laurel Park is the nearest
- 83 mm of rain on the November normal
- Highs near 11.1 °C, 16.6 freezing nights and 3 cm of snow on the normal
- Downtown's Festival of Lights opens the holidays on an early December Friday; the 2026 date was not posted on the pages read
- Bus service on weekends runs hourly, from about 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.
5 more photographs of Greensboro and the region
Drawn from the site's shared, freely licensed Greensboro photo library, not photographs of New Irving Park itself. Filter by category.
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