Perimeter, 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.

Perimeter is Dunwoody’s high-rise corner: office towers, Perimeter Mall, MARTA’s Dunwoody Station and the largest cluster of apartments and condominiums in the city. The city’s comprehensive plan calls it “the most intensively developed” part of Dunwoody and says it has “the highest redevelopment potential in all of Dunwoody.”

What this means for you

• Zoned high school: Dunwoody High, for every address. Check yours with the district’s school locator.
• Home value: $447,120 in ZIP 30346 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. For shopping, dining and things to do here, see our Perimeter Center guide.

Where it is

The 2025-2045 Comprehensive Plan, which the City Council passed Oct. 14, 2025, according to Rough Draft Atlanta, makes Perimeter one of its 11 character areas. It says:

• The area covers “the southwestern corner of the city, just north of I-285 and east of GA400.”
• Its core stretches north to Meadow Lane Road and east to the properties fronting Ashford Dunwoody Road, with high-rise offices and apartments, mid-rise mixed use and low-rise shopping centers.
• A “transition” area on the north and east sides has townhouses, apartments, offices and shopping centers at a smaller scale, and is meant to step down toward the neighborhoods.
• Recent and planned projects include High Street and the State Farm headquarters, and the plan names Perimeter Mall as “a major opportunity for mixed-use redevelopment.”

The plan, using Esri Business Analyst and CoStar figures for 2024, counts 10,296 residents, 5,276 housing units and 21,779 jobs in Perimeter. The city’s address data has 6,276 addresses in the area, most of them apartment and condo units. Of those, 72% are in ZIP code 30346 and 28% in 30338. The area is inside city limits, so the Dunwoody Police Department patrols it.

Homes

The city’s map of subdivisions and multifamily buildings lists 14 apartment communities here, among them Post Crossing, The Point at Perimeter, Walton Ashwood and Heights at Perimeter Center. It lists four condominium buildings, including The Manhattan and Prescott at Park Place, and two townhome communities, The Gramercy and Townsend at Perimeter. It lists no single-family subdivisions inside the area.

The plan allows buildings of 3 to 16 stories in the core, and up to 36 with a special land use permit, and 2 to 6 stories in the transition area.

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. Every school, with its calendar: our Dunwoody schools guide.

Home values

The typical home value in ZIP 30346 was $447,120 in August 2026, up 0.49% from $444,949 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. In a ZIP code made up mostly of apartments and condos, it mainly reflects condo values. The citywide Dunwoody figure was $672,389, up 2.6% on the year. More in our home prices guide.

Parks and trails

From the city’s park data:

• Two Bridges Park, 50 Perimeter Center East: the city’s splash pad, a playground, pavilions and trails, with a footbridge over the North Fork of Nancy Creek that ties into the Dunwoody Trailway toward Georgetown.
• PCP Flyover Park is listed by the city as a future park, under construction.

The plan calls for extending the Ashford Dunwoody Road path from Perimeter Center West to Mount Vernon Road and for a multi-use path on Perimeter Center East. More in our parks and trails guide.

Getting around

• I-285: exit 29, Ashford Dunwoody Road, about 1.3 miles from the middle of the area by road, by the exit numbers in OpenStreetMap. Exit 30, Chamblee Dunwoody Road, is about 2.9 miles. Georgia 400 runs just west of the area in Sandy Springs.
• Dunwoody Village: about 1.6 miles by road to Chamblee Dunwoody and Mount Vernon roads.
• Airport: about 24.6 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 rail: the Red Line stops at Dunwoody Station, with a direct train to the airport.
• MARTA buses: routes 5, 48, 87 and 88 stop at the station, and Route 88 runs along Ashford Dunwoody Road, according to MARTA’s schedule data.

More in our getting around guide.

Groceries and everyday stores

From OpenStreetMap:

• Publix, 500 Ashwood Parkway
• Bharath Groceries, in Perimeter Center
• Publix and Publix Pharmacy, 1100 Hammond Drive, just west of the city line

Perimeter Mall is the area’s main retail center.

How we drew this area

Perimeter is a character area in the city’s comprehensive plan. Its edges here follow the city’s own character area map layer, less the Ashford area the 2025 plan split off to the north. 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 Perimeter in Dunwoody a good place to live?

Here are the facts. Perimeter is the city’s southwest corner, north of I-285 and east of Georgia 400, with Dunwoody’s MARTA rail station and most of its 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 30346 at $447,120 in August 2026.

What ZIP code is Perimeter Center in Dunwoody?

Mostly 30346. In the city’s address data, 72% of Perimeter addresses are in 30346 and 28% in 30338.

What schools are Perimeter Center apartments zoned for?

Dunwoody High and Peachtree Middle for every address. For elementary school, 85% of addresses are zoned for Dunwoody Elementary and 15% for Austin Elementary, the DeKalb County School District’s zone map shows.

What I-285 exit is Perimeter Center?

Exit 29, Ashford Dunwoody Road. Georgia 400 runs along the area’s west side in Sandy Springs.