Forest Heights and Holly Hills and Parkside off Tharpe Street, out to Huntington Woods by Mission Road
The city west of Monroe Street and north of Tennessee Street: Forest Heights and Holly Hills and Parkside off Tharpe Street, out to Huntington Woods by Mission Road.
Photograph: Downtown from the air · downtown seen from over the Capital City Country Club, about 5 km southeast, not a photograph of Parkside and Park Terrace · Urbantallahassee · CC BY-SA 4.0 · sourceThe Northwest is our name for the city west of Monroe Street and north of Tennessee Street, outside the Multimodal Transportation District, 22,952 residents and 10,689 housing units in 2020, the fewest of the five. Every guide here is an association's own area on the Tallahassee-Leon County GIS layer of homeowner and neighborhood associations, clipped to the City limits, so its line is one an association filed rather than one the City drew. Forest Heights and Holly Hills is one association, which the layer marks inactive, named for two places: 1,466 residents on 336 acres along Old Bainbridge Road, a canopy road. Parkside and Park Terrace is one association named for two subdivisions, 550 residents on 170 acres, 30 of them inside the Multimodal Transportation District. Huntington Woods is 669 residents on 145 acres by Mission Road. 3 guides are listed below.
The association map covers this part of the city worst: 12,722 of its 22,952 residents live in any association's area, and 4,597 in a neighborhood association's, which is why it has the fewest guides. Old Bainbridge was left off because 1,581 of its 1,687 city residents are also in the Hartsfield Plantation homeowners association's area. None of the three guides has a resident in a FEMA flood zone by block on the County's layer, but FEMA's map is not the whole of the risk, so ask for a flood quote whatever the zone. Forest Heights and Holly Hills and Huntington Woods are zoned for Godby High on the district's layer, which shows an I for 2026 on the state's list, with no scores, and Parkside and Park Terrace for Leon High. Huntington Woods is also a Development of Regional Impact on the County's layer.
3 communities, guide by guide
Forest Heights and Holly Hills
The Forest Heights-Holly Hills Area Neighborhood Association's 336 acres north of West Tharpe Street and west of Old Bainbridge Road, around Sharon Road and Raa Avenue, 1,466 residents in 2020.
- 1,466
- Residents of the 28 census blocks inside the association's line and the City limits, in 585 housing units, 2.51 people to a home, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 1964
- Year the City's annexation history layer gives for the whole of the 336 acres, Tallahassee-Leon County GIS, read 2026
Huntington Woods
The Huntington Woods Neighborhood Association's 145 acres east of Mission Road along Huntington Woods Boulevard in the city's northwest, 669 residents in 2020, built from 1974 and annexed by the City in 1985; the County's larger Huntington Woods Development of Regional Impact lies to the north and northwest, outside the city.
- 669
- Residents of the 6 census blocks inside the association's line, in 259 housing units, 2.58 residents to a unit, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 1985
- Year the City annexed all 145 acres; 195 of the 366 houses now standing had already been built in unincorporated Leon County, TLCGIS annexation history and Leon County Property Appraiser, read October 2026
Parkside and Park Terrace
The Parkside/Park Terrace Neighborhood Association's 170 acres, nearly all north of West Tharpe Street between Old Bainbridge Road and North Monroe Street: a 1950s plat and three 1980s units, 550 residents in 2020 on 241 housing units.
- 550
- Residents of the 11 census blocks inside the association's line and the City limits, in 241 housing units, 2.28 residents to a unit, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 1964
- Median year built of the 357 single-family houses: 150 date from the 1950s, almost all in the Parkside plat, and 76 from 1981 to 1985 in Park Terrace, Leon County Property Appraiser parcel data, read October 2026
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