Live in Westerwood
A 1919 subdivision of bungalows and cottages about 0.7 km from two campuses, with no historic district over it: no certificate of appropriateness for a new porch or an addition, and no protection against the house next door changing either.
Westerwood is the City of Greensboro's name for 152 acres north of West Friendly Avenue, where 1,129 residents lived in 643 housing units at the 2020 census. The Westerwood plat was filed in 1919, and 23 houses were finished or under way by the summer of 1920, and the land was all inside the city by 1923. The nearest edges of the UNC Greensboro and Greensboro College campuses are about 0.7 km from the reference point, but the census tract that holds the whole area counts 14.3% of its residents in college, so this is not a dormitory district. No City historic district and no National Register district covers any of it, and no sale price for the area is published.
A 1919 subdivision between two campuses, with nothing listed
The line is one area of the City's estimated neighborhood map: a hosted layer the City published for its Neighborhood Traffic Management Program, on which Westerwood (object 113) is marked VERIFIED NO, clipped to the City limits, which take nothing from it. It is not an association's territory, a historic district or a plat. On the City's street centerlines it follows West Friendly Avenue along the south, East Lake Drive along the north, North Josephine Boyd Street on the west and a short stretch of West Smith Street at the eastern point; Fairmont Street, North Mendenhall Street, Westover Terrace and Guilford Avenue run through it.
Westerwood here is a line the City of Greensboro draws: one area of its estimated neighborhood map, held on a layer the City published for its traffic-calming program and marked VERIFIED NO, clipped to the City limits, which take nothing from it. It is not an association's territory or a plat, and this guide claims nothing about where residents think Westerwood ends. The line runs along West Friendly Avenue on the south, East Lake Drive on the north and North Josephine Boyd Street on the west, and it held 1,129 residents in 643 housing units on 152 acres at the 2020 census. All but 13 of them fall in this site's downtown area; the 13 are counted in the West.
It was sold as a suburb in 1919. In 1891 the ground northwest of Guilford and Mendenhall streets was a few large estates and one plat, The Highlands. The Westerwood plat was filed in 1919; A. K. Moore of the Guilford Insurance and Real Estate Company ran a contest to name the streets and advertised Crestland, Woodlawn, Hillside and Courtland that October, and all four are inside the City's line. By the summer of 1920 there were 23 houses finished or going up: Craftsman bungalows, Tudor cottages, Colonial Revival. The land under 634 of today's residents was in the city by 1891 and the rest came in with the 1923 annexation. In 1929 Greensboro High School, now Grimsley, opened on Westover Terrace just beyond the northwest corner, and in 1957 Josephine Boyd desegregated it. Since 2019 the street along the western edge carries her name.
Nothing here is listed, and that cuts both ways. The City's three local historic districts are College Hill, Fisher Park and Dunleath, and none of them, nor any National Register district, holds a Westerwood resident. So an owner needs no certificate of appropriateness to replace windows or add a dormer, and neither does a neighbor. Thirteen residents are inside the City's Downtown Design Overlay, whose rules this guide did not read; what the base zoning allows on any lot was not read either.
Close to the colleges, not of them. The nearest edges of the UNC Greensboro and Greensboro College campuses are about 0.7 km from the reference point, and no 2020 resident lives inside either. No census table counts students by block; census tract 107.01, which holds all of Westerwood, counted 14.3% of its residents aged three and over in college in the 2020 to 2024 survey, 238 of 1,667 with margins of about 40 on each part. The blocks average 1.76 residents a housing unit, and none looks like a dormitory.
What a house costs is not published. Zillow's typical value for ZIP 27401, which holds 809 of the residents, was $182,377 in August 2026, down 2.8%: a ZIP-wide figure with condominiums in it, not this guide's. Every parcel pays Guilford County's 78.95 cents and the City's 79.85 cents per $100, 158.80 in all for fiscal 2027, on the 2022 revaluation's values because Senate Bill 889 put the 2026 values off to the 2027 bills. A house assessed at $250,000 owes about $3,970. Your first bill follows the seller's assessment and the next revaluation will change it; North Carolina has no homestead exemption for an ordinary buyer. Stormwater and solid waste come on the City's water bill, read here only secondhand. On the City's flood layer 8.8% of the area, the strips along its creeks, is in the special flood hazard area, with 24 residents on blocks there; the reference point is in zone X on panels effective 10 June 2026.
- Look the address up on FEMA's flood map or the state's Flood Risk Information System: 8.8% of the area is in the special flood hazard area
- Budget for change: 158.80 cents applies to the 2022 value for 2026 only, and the 2027 bill uses the 2026 value at a rate not yet set
- Check the parcel's zoning with the City before planning an addition or a second unit; this guide did not read it
- Ask the seller for the City water bill, which carries the stormwater and solid waste charges
- Confirm the schools with the district's 2026-27 locator, and where Lindley Elementary is meeting
- Walk the block on a school day: Route 8 has a stop inside the line and Grimsley High is just beyond the northwest corner
How Westerwood got here
- 1891Maps of 1891 show a handful of large estates spreading northwest from Guilford and Mendenhall streets toward Westover Terrace, and the area's first plat, The Highlands. By the City's annexation layer, the land under 634 of Westerwood's 2020 residents was inside the city by 1891.
- 1919The Westerwood plat is filed. In October a newspaper advertisement introduces Westerwood and its newly named streets, Crestland, Woodlawn, Hillside and Courtland, after a street-naming contest run by A. K. Moore of the Guilford Insurance and Real Estate Company. All four streets are inside the City's line today.
- 1920By the summer, 23 houses are finished or under construction: Craftsman bungalows, Tudor cottages and Colonial Revival dwellings.
- 1923Westerwood, West Market Terrace and the land that becomes Lake Daniel are taken into the city limits. The rest of the 2020 residents, 495, live on land annexed that year.
- 1929Greensboro High School opens in its new building on Westover Terrace, about 0.9 km northwest of the reference point. It is renamed Grimsley High School in 1962 and listed on the National Register in 2005.
- 1957Josephine Boyd enters the all-white Greensboro High School, the first Black student to desegregate it, and graduates in 1958.
- 2018The City Council votes unanimously to rename North and South Aycock Street and part of Westover Terrace for Josephine Boyd, with the new names taking effect on 2 January. North Josephine Boyd Street is now the western edge of the City's Westerwood line.
- 2026New flood maps take effect on 10 June. In July the City's traffic-calming account publishes the neighborhood layer whose Westerwood polygon this guide uses, marked VERIFIED NO.
Lake Daniel Park runs along the line, not inside it
No park is inside the City's Westerwood line. Lake Daniel Park, about 80 acres along North Buffalo Creek, follows its northern edge within a few meters, with a playground, three tennis courts, a basketball court and a stretch of the greenway; its address is on Mimosa Drive, inside Westerwood. Lake Daniel Reservoir Park on Benjamin Parkway, 0.4 km from the reference point, surrounds the small man-made lake of the 1920s that now serves as a city reservoir, and Peabody Park is on the UNCG campus, about 1 km south.
What the map does not show: the same creeks that make the park put 8.8% of Westerwood in the special flood hazard area.
Elsewhere in Greensboro, not Westerwood
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 OpenStreetMap Westerwood place node, inside the City's line, 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 gym or City recreation center inside the line. The nearest is the YMCA of Greensboro's Kathleen Price Bryan Family YMCA at 501 West Market Street, about 1 km south. The nearest City center is Warnersville on Doak Street, with an outdoor pool. Pool seasons and hours were not read.
- Kathleen Price Bryan Family YMCA, 501 West Market Street: the nearest gym
- Warnersville Recreation Center and pool, 601 Doak Street: call for hours
- Greensboro Aquatic Center, 1921 West Gate City Boulevard: the City's indoor pool
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Price Bryan Family YMCA open | The YMCA of Greensboro's downtown branch at 501 West Market Street, the nearest of its Greensboro branches. Facilities and hours were not read. | 4–5 min |
| Warnersville Recreation Center open | The nearest City recreation center, at 601 Doak Street, with the City's outdoor pool in Warnersville Community Park beside it. The City's layer says to call for hours; the pool season was not read. | 6–9 min |
| Greensboro Aquatic Center open | The City's indoor pool at 1921 West Gate City Boulevard. Hours and fees were not read. | 7–11 min |
| Lindley Recreation Center open | 2907 Springwood Drive in Lindley Park, beside the City's outdoor Lindley Pool. The City's layer says to call for hours. | 8–11 min |
The free option is Lake Daniel Park on the northern edge: the greenway, the tennis courts and the basketball court.
One zone at each level for every block
Guilford County Schools assigns by the attendance zone of the parent's home. On its 2026-27 layers the point is zoned for Lindley Elementary, which is meeting at Murphey Elementary on Ontario Street, Kiser Middle on Campus Drive and Grimsley High just beyond the northwest corner, and so are all 1,129 residents of 2020. Lindley and Kiser earned C on the state's report cards in 2024-25 and 2023-24, Grimsley B; no school-level 2025-26 file was found.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Lindley Elementary School | Guilford County Schools | The point is zoned for Lindley on the district's 2026-27 layer, and so are all 1,129 residents of 2020. The school is meeting at Murphey Elementary, 2306 Ontario Street, while its own building on Camden Road is out of use; the reason was not read. NC School Report Card grade C in 2024-25 and in 2023-24. |
| Kiser Middle School | Guilford County Schools | The point and every 2020 resident are in the Kiser zone, 407 Campus Drive, about 1.5 km north in a straight line. C in 2024-25 and 2023-24, with growth not met in 2024-25. |
| Grimsley High School | Guilford County Schools | The point and every 2020 resident are in the Grimsley zone, 801 North Josephine Boyd Street, about 0.9 km away. B in 2024-25 and 2023-24, with growth exceeded in 2024-25. |
| Jones Spanish Immersion Elementary School | Guilford County Schools | The nearest magnet elementary on the district's site layer, about 2.7 km south: a Spanish immersion program filled by application, mostly by lottery. C in 2024-25. |
Run the exact address through the district's School Assignment Locator. Magnet programs, such as Spanish immersion at Jones Elementary about 2.7 km south, are applied for 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 just below freezing at Piedmont Triad International, with 19.5 nights at or below 0 °C in an average January
- 2.9 inches of snow on the 1991 to 2020 normal, the snowiest month of the year
- The Curb Market on Yanceyville Street keeps its Saturday morning hours through the winter
- Highs near 11.8 °C and 15.1 frost nights on the normal, with 2 inches of snow
- The month to look at a 1920s bungalow's heating bill: ask for a year of statements
- The County's 2026 values go on the 2027 bills, so a seller's 2026 bill is on the 2022 revaluation
- Highs near 16.3 °C and 94 mm of rain on the normal
- Spring rain fills the creeks that put 8.8% of the area in the special flood hazard area; look the address up on the state's flood map
- Buyers start touring; Westerwood has 643 housing units and few come up at once
- Highs near 21.7 °C and the last frost, 1.1 nights on the normal
- The EF2 tornado of 15 April 2018 touched down in east Greensboro, about 5 km southeast of this point, and ran north out of the city
- The Curb Market adds its Tuesday evening market, 4 to 7 p.m., from April
- Highs near 25.6 °C, and the first day of 32 °C or more on the normal
- The college spring terms end at UNCG and Greensboro College, both about 0.7 km away at their nearest edges
- No frost on the normal from May to September
- Highs near 29.6 °C and 104 mm of rain, much of it in thunderstorms
- 6.6 days at 32 °C or above on the normal
- The City has four outdoor pools, Warnersville the nearest; their season was not read, so check before you plan on one
- The hottest month: highs near 31.4 °C and 13.7 days at 32 °C or more
- Fun Fourth fills Elm Street downtown on 4 July, with the Freedom Run at 7:30 a.m. and the Freedom Fest from 1 to 6 p.m.
- Afternoon storms bring 106 mm of rain on the normal
- Highs near 30.3 °C and 111 mm of rain
- The 2026 bills are on the 2022 values; Guilford County and Greensboro take 1% off a bill paid before 1 September
- 9.1 days at 32 °C or more on the normal
- The wettest month on the airport's normal, 117 mm
- The North Carolina Folk Festival fills downtown for three free days; it ran 18 to 20 September in 2026 and 2027 dates are not posted
- The 1% early-payment discount ends on 1 September
- Highs near 21.7 °C and the driest month, 79 mm
- No frost yet: 0.5 nights at or below 0 °C on the normal
- The Curb Market's Tuesday evening market runs through October, its last month
- Highs near 15.9 °C and 7.7 frost nights on the normal
- The canopy over the 1920s streets drops its leaves; check the gutters on the older houses
- Saturday mornings continue at the Curb Market after the Tuesday market ends
- Highs near 11.1 °C and 16.6 frost nights on the normal
- The Festival of Lights opens the season downtown on a Friday evening early in the month; the 2026 date was not posted
- 1.2 inches of snow on the December normal
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