Live in Starmount Forest

Starmount Forest began as the eastern part of somebody else's plan. Alfred Moore Scales's Town of Hamilton Lakes was incorporated in 1925, and in 1927 Edward and Blanche Sternberger Benjamin cut this land from it. The golf course came before most of the houses: Starmount Forest Country Club, founded by the Benjamins, opened its course on 1 August 1930, when West Market Street did not yet run past Sunset Hills. Building began in earnest after the war, and the City's 2007 architecture survey describes what went up: mostly one and one-and-a-half-story Cape Cod houses with Colonial Revival doorways and shutters, and the two-story houses on Madison Avenue. The whole area came into the City with the 1957 annexation, the year Friendly Center opened across Friendly Avenue.

The line on this page is the City's estimate, not a survey. It is feature 138 of the neighborhood map the City publishes on a layer for its Neighborhood Traffic Management Program, marked VERIFIED NO, and the City says its neighborhood points "should not be considered accurate". It is not an association's territory or a plat, and nothing here claims to know where residents think the name ends. Inside it, 813 acres between West Friendly Avenue, Green Valley Road, Starmount Drive and West Market Street, the 2020 census counted 2,865 residents in 1,151 housing units, 2.49 to a home. The club's course fills the southwest of the line, and 48 residents are inside the City's West Friendly Avenue neighborhood conservation overlay, whose rules were not read.

The school line runs through the middle. On Guilford County Schools' 2026-27 layers the point is zoned for Sternberger Elementary, graded A by the state in 2024-25 and 2023-24, and 2,190 of the 2020 residents are in its zone. The other 675, in the southwest, are zoned for Morehead Elementary on Tower Road, graded C in both years. Everyone goes on to Kiser Middle, graded C, and Grimsley High, graded B. The district lists Sternberger as meeting at the old Kiser Middle building on Benjamin Parkway; why, and until when, was not read. The tract holding most residents counts 4.7% of its people in college, with a margin of 84 on 142 undergraduates: the tract's figure, not this guide's.

The tax bill is two lines, on 2022 values. A house here pays Guilford County's 78.95 cents and the City's 79.85 cents per $100 for fiscal 2027, 158.80 in all, with no fire district. Senate Bill 889 kept the 2026 bills on the old values, which the state's ratio study put at 68.31% of sale prices in January 2025, and moved the County's 2026 reappraisal to the 2027 bill at rates not yet set. A buyer's first bill follows the seller's assessment; the next one will not. The County's relief programs take applications in June. Stormwater and solid waste come on the City's water bill, which two secondhand pages put at $1.80 to $4.68 and $5.50 a month: the City's own pages refused this site. Association dues were not read.

No sale price follows this line. Zillow's typical value for ZIP code 27403, which holds 1,441 of the residents, was $237,287 in August 2026, down 0.7%; 27410, with 1,424, was $358,322, up 0.7%. Both are ZIP-wide and include condominiums. What the line does have is distance: Route 9 stops on West Market Street about 0.6 km from the point every 30 minutes at midday, Route 7 runs on Friendly Avenue about 0.8 km away, Friendly Center's supermarkets are about 1.5 km by road, and Wesley Long Hospital about 2.2 km. No 2020 block is in a special flood hazard area, though 4.07% of the land is, along the creeks.