South Metro, Arapahoe County
Greenwood Village
Large lots, the High Line Canal, and the Cherry Creek High School attendance area.
Photo: Jared Winkler, CC BY-SA 4.0
Greenwood Village is a small city with a big daytime population: about 15,700 residents, and several times that many commuters into the Denver Tech Center along I-25. Away from the office towers, it is deliberately low-density. Larger parcels, deep setbacks, and zoning that protects the look of established neighborhoods.
Varvara lives and works in this part of the south metro. The 80111 zip code also includes Englewood-addressed neighborhoods such as Cherry Creek Vista, where she represented the buyers of a $900,000 ranch in 2026, and much of the area sits inside the Cherry Creek High School attendance boundary.
- Location
- South of Denver along I-25, between Belleview and Arapahoe Road
- Population
- About 15,700 (2020 census)
- Housing
- Custom estates on ½ to 1+ acres, 1960s–80s ranches and two-stories, condos near the DTC
- Trails
- High Line Canal Trail (71 miles), Greenwood Gulch Trail
- Transit
- RTD E/F/R lines: Orchard, Arapahoe at Village Center, Belleview
Three kinds of housing
Greenwood Village housing falls into three distinct tiers. Custom estates on half-acre to acre-plus lots in sections like The Preserve, Greenwood Acres and Green Oaks, many of them backing to the High Line Canal. Established mid-century and 1970s subdivisions of ranch and two-story homes, which is where most of the resale volume happens. And attached condominiums and townhomes clustered near the Tech Center for buyers who want the address without the acreage.
Lot size, more than square footage, drives price here. Two homes of similar size can be a million dollars apart depending on whether they sit on a quarter acre or a full one.
The High Line Canal and the outdoors
The High Line Canal Trail is the spine of the area. Seventy-one miles long end to end, it passes through Greenwood Village as a soft-surface path under mature cottonwoods, with Front Range views opening up between the trees. Marjorie Park and the Curtis Center for the Arts, in a restored 1914 schoolhouse, sit near Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, and Cherry Creek State Park is a short drive east.
Cherry Creek Vista and 80111
Postal addresses can mislead here. Cherry Creek Vista and several neighboring subdivisions carry Englewood addresses and an 80111 zip code, but they sit east of I-25 between Greenwood Village and Centennial, in the Cherry Creek School District. The homes are mostly 1970s ranches and two-stories on 10,000-plus square-foot lots, with a community pool and tennis courts, and Sunset Park within walking distance.
Neighborhoods and subdivisions
- The Preserve
- Greenwood Acres
- Green Oaks
- Sundance Hills
- Cherry Creek Vista (Englewood 80111)
- Orchard Hills
- Belleview Station
A note from Varvara
This is home. My daughters go to school in the Cherry Creek district, I walk the High Line Canal with our dog, and I maintain a weekly-updated Compass collection of homes zoned for Cherry Creek High School. If the school boundary matters to your search, start there.
— Varvara Lytkina, Broker Associate, Compass
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