Ashford, Dunwoody: homes, schools, parks and commute

Last checked Oct. 5, 2026. Sources: the City of Dunwoody’s 2025-2045 Comprehensive Plan (PDF) and open GIS data, the DeKalb County School District school locator map data, the state’s 2025 School Grades data, Zillow Research, MARTA and OpenStreetMap.

Ashford is the short stretch of Ashford Dunwoody Road between Perimeter Center and Dunwoody Village, with City Hall, office buildings, condominiums and garden apartments. It is the newest area on the city’s map: the 2025-2045 Comprehensive Plan split it off from Perimeter.

What this means for you

• Zoned high school: Dunwoody High, for every address. Check yours with the district’s school locator.
• Home value: $710,439 in ZIP 30338 in August 2026, according to the Zillow Home Value Index.
• Nearest I-285 exit: exit 29, Ashford Dunwoody Road.

Part of our Dunwoody neighborhoods guide.

Where it is

The 2025-2045 Comprehensive Plan, passed by the City Council on Oct. 14, 2025, describes Ashford this way:

• It is “centered on the upper reaches of Ashford Dunwoody Road and Ashford Center Parkway” and “acts as a transitional area between Perimeter and Dunwoody Village.”
• Its land uses are “medium-intensity public-institutional uses (including City Hall),” office buildings and garden-style apartments.
• It was part of the Perimeter character area until this plan. “By carving it off, it signals a shift in thinking about this community as a place in its own right,” the plan says.
• The plan wants better walking routes to the MARTA station and to Dunwoody Village, and allows buildings of 2 to 4 stories, up to 5 for commercial buildings.

City Hall is at 4800 Ashford Dunwoody Road. The city’s address data has 626 addresses in the area, most of them condo and apartment units, and every one is in ZIP code 30338.

Homes

The city’s map of subdivisions and multifamily buildings lists The Ashford Condominiums, Jefferson at Perimeter apartments and an assisted living community in this area. The plan lists townhouses, cottage courts and small plexes among the housing types that fit here.

Schools

Of the addresses in this area, this is how they split in the DeKalb County School District’s attendance zone map for 2026-27. Scores are 2025 College and Career Ready Performance Index (CCRPI) figures from the state’s School Grades report.

The state averages were 76.9 for high schools, 78.4 for middle schools and 78.6 for elementary schools. More in our Dunwoody schools guide.

Home values

The typical home value in ZIP 30338 was $710,439 in August 2026, up 2.95% from $690,074 in August 2025, according to the Zillow Home Value Index. The index is a modeled typical value for the middle third of homes, not a sale price. ZIP 30338 covers most of Dunwoody’s single-family neighborhoods as well, so the figure says more about the ZIP code than about the condos and apartments here. The citywide Dunwoody figure was $672,389, up 2.6% on the year. More in our home prices guide.

Parks and trails

The city’s park data lists no park inside the area. The nearest, each about 0.7 miles from its edge, are Two Bridges Park, 50 Perimeter Center East, to the south, and the Dunwoody Park and Nature Center, 5343 Roberts Drive, to the north. The plan calls for extending the Ashford Dunwoody Road path from Perimeter Center West to Mount Vernon Road, which would run through Ashford. More in our parks and trails guide.

Getting around

• I-285: exit 29, Ashford Dunwoody Road, about 1.8 miles by road, by the exit numbers in OpenStreetMap. Exit 30, Chamblee Dunwoody Road, is about 2.4 miles.
• Dunwoody Village: about 0.6 miles by road to Chamblee Dunwoody and Mount Vernon roads.
• Airport: about 25.4 miles to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Both are distances measured on the OpenStreetMap road network with the OSRM routing engine, not drive times.
• MARTA: Route 88, Dunwoody Village/Georgetown, stops along Ashford Dunwoody Road between Mount Vernon Road and Ashford Center Parkway and runs to Dunwoody Station, according to MARTA’s schedule data.

More in our getting around guide.

Groceries and everyday stores

From OpenStreetMap, the nearest are just outside the area:

• CVS Pharmacy, 1610 Mount Vernon Road, in Dunwoody Village
• Publix, 5550 Chamblee Dunwoody Road, in Dunwoody Village
• Publix, 500 Ashwood Parkway, in Perimeter Center

How we drew this area

Ashford is a character area in the city’s 2025 comprehensive plan. The city’s GIS layer still shows the older map, so we drew Ashford as the northern part of the old Perimeter area, matched against the 2025 plan’s map. School shares come from every address point inside those edges in the city’s GIS data, matched to the district’s attendance zones on Oct. 5, 2026. Store locations are © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Frequently asked questions

Is the Ashford area of Dunwoody a good place to live?

Here are the facts. Ashford is the stretch of upper Ashford Dunwoody Road between Perimeter Center and Dunwoody Village, with City Hall, offices, condos and apartments. Every address is zoned for Dunwoody High, which scored 76.7 on the state’s 2025 CCRPI, and Zillow put the typical home value in ZIP 30338 at $710,439 in August 2026.

Where is Dunwoody City Hall?

At 4800 Ashford Dunwoody Road, in the area the city’s 2025-2045 Comprehensive Plan calls Ashford.

What elementary school is the Ashford area zoned for?

Vanderlyn Elementary for 88% of addresses and Dunwoody Elementary for 12%, in the DeKalb County School District’s 2026-27 zone map.

Why is Ashford a separate area from Perimeter?

The 2025-2045 Comprehensive Plan carved Ashford out of the Perimeter character area. The plan says this ‘signals a shift in thinking about this community as a place in its own right.’