Live in Stonehenge

Stonehenge is the run of subdivisions that grew along Creedmoor Road in northwest Raleigh from the late 1970s: its association dates it to 1977, and the county dates the first houses to 1976. No official body draws one line around it, so this guide uses the four organizations registered with the City under the name: two entries called Stonehenge HOA, north and south of Salisbury Plain, Stonehenge HOA East across Creedmoor Road, and the small Stonehenge XI on Brisbayne Circle, 1,677 registered homes on about 859 acres. The county counts 1,498 houses inside those lines and dates 1,170 of them, 78%, to 1970 through 1989, at a median of 2,378 heated square feet on 0.42 acres.

Two in five houses are not in Raleigh. The City annexed Stonehenge a section at a time as each was built, fifteen annexations inside the lines between 1981 and 2014, but the oldest part never came in. Wake County's corporate limits leave 597 houses outside any town: all 468 in the northern Stonehenge HOA area, and 129 in the southern one, among them every house the county dates to the 1970s. The association calls it one of Raleigh's zoning donuts. The City still zones those lots, R-4 like most of the rest, but their owners pay Wake County's 53.71 cents per $100 and a 12.25-cent fire district tax instead of the combined 90.91: about $3,745 a year on their median house, against about $5,162 on the same house at the City's rate. The City says annexation is voluntary, by petition, and that most properties outside its limits must be annexed before connecting to City water or sewer. This guide found no published record of how each of those houses is served, so a buyer should ask for the water and sewer bills.

Creedmoor Road is the spine, and its traffic has not grown. NCDOT counted 32,000 vehicles a day on it south of Stonehenge Drive in 2024, and every count there since 2003 has fallen between 29,000 and 34,000. Stonehenge Market, beside Stonehenge Drive, is anchored by a Harris Teeter about a kilometer from the reference point, and Brennan Station lies north at 8111 Creedmoor Road. GoRaleigh Route 36L runs the road every 30 minutes, seven days a week, from about 5:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., between Brennan Drive and Crabtree Valley Mall; the nearest stop is about 660 meters from the reference point, and none lies inside the lines. By the table below downtown is about 17 kilometers and the airport about 12.

The association is voluntary; the covenants are not. The Stonehenge Community Association charges $20 a household a year and says membership is optional. The covenants are administered by a private company, Development Associates, on Stonehenge Drive: garages, pools, porches, fences, sheds and dog runs go to it in writing before work starts, no house may hold a business office, and boats, trailers and campers may not be parked on the street. The county records the same company as owner of the Seven Oaks Swim and Racquet Club's land on Howard Road. Some sections, Stonehenge XI, Stonehenge Townhomes and Stonehenge 16 among them, have associations that own common land, and this guide found no published dues for any of them.

The price is about $170,000 under North Hills. The median single-family parcel inside the four lines is assessed at $580,961 on the 2024 revaluation, against $752,179 by the same measure in the North Hills subdivision about 8 kilometers southeast, and land is 32% of the value here against 57% there. The houses outside the city limits are the cheapest, at a median of $567,817, on the biggest lots, 0.59 acres. The census count needs care: it puts 6,196 residents in the 37 blocks whose centers fall inside the lines, but those blocks spill past them, and 2,507 of the residents live in blocks less than half inside. The City's flood layer maps no 1% annual chance flood zone inside the lines. Wake revalues on 1 January 2027 (the citywide arithmetic is on the Raleigh page).