Live in Wakefield

Wakefield sits at the northern tip of Raleigh, on farmland sold to developers in the late 1990s. John Sprunt Hill, the Durham banker, assembled 2,200 acres here from foreclosure sales and in 1934 built a Guernsey dairy beside what was already called the Wakefield Plantation House. The house, its tenant houses and its slave dwellings are gone; the dairy barns survive just west of the line on Falls of the Neuse Road. The City annexed 2,006 acres here as Upper Neuse in 1995, before a house stood on it; its record calls the annexation contiguous, though on its own map the nearest earlier annexation lies about 800 meters away. The county dates 2,485 of today's 2,715 houses and townhouses to 1998 through 2008. This guide uses the line the Wakefield Plantation Community Association registered with the City, about 1,841 acres between Falls of Neuse Road and Capital Boulevard; 10,710 people lived inside it in 2020.

The town next door is Wake Forest. Its limits begin at the NC 98 Bypass on the north and along Capital Boulevard on the east, and take in a few commercial parcels at the northern tip. About 96% of the area is in Raleigh, which sets the tax bill, yet by the table below downtown Raleigh is about 28 kilometers away by road and downtown Wake Forest about 6.5. No GoRaleigh bus comes within five kilometers. The one bus is GoTriangle's weekday Route WRX from South Main Street in Wake Forest, about 2.3 kilometers east, roughly hourly to the Triangle Town Center park and ride; two morning trips go on to Raleigh Union Station and two come back in the evening.

Capital Boulevard is the road south, and it is going to change. NCDOT plans to rebuild US 1 from I-540 to Wake Forest as a six-lane controlled-access highway, with interchanges in place of signals and private driveways prohibited. It began buying property for the southern segments in September 2025 and expects to start building them in 2031; the segment along Wakefield's eastern edge, Burlington Mills Road to NC 98 Business, is scheduled for 2033. The pages this guide read do not say which of Wakefield's junctions with the boulevard become interchanges, so a buyer on the eastern streets should read the project maps first.

The golf course belongs to a club, not the association. The Hale Irwin course opened in 2000 as TPC Wakefield Plantation, in the PGA Tour's network. McConnell Golf bought it in 2011, and it is now The Country Club at Wakefield Plantation, a private family membership that includes the pool, fitness, tennis and pickleball and publishes no fees. The county records the club's companies as owning about 273 acres inside the line, and 540 houses, one in five, have a lot line on that land. Those detached houses are assessed at a median of $705,078 against $622,509 for the rest, and are about 470 square feet larger. This guide found no published dues or budget for the association, and townhouse sections such as Calloway on the Green, Edgewood and Club Villas have associations of their own.

Half the households rent. At the 2020 census 52% of the 4,478 occupied homes inside the line were rented. Apartments stand beside the houses: the county counts about 2,500 units today, 398 of them dated 2023 to 2025. The median single-family parcel is assessed at $482,079 on the 2024 revaluation: $637,501 for a detached house and $334,804 for a townhouse. At 90.91 cents per $100 the median detached house pays about $5,796 a year before association dues, and land is only 18% of its value. The City's copy of the FEMA flood map puts 13 houses' centers in Richland Creek's 1% annual chance flood zone and touches 97 lots. Wake revalues on 1 January 2027 (the citywide arithmetic is on the Raleigh page).