[3] It is a largely suburban area that blends into the north side of the city of Spokane and the neighboring CDPs of Town and Country and Fairwood.

[5] The first permanent European presence in the area near Country Homes came in 1810 with the construction of Spokane House by the North West Company of fur traders.

[6] Whitworth University was established in 1890 on the west side of the state and moved to its current location in Country Homes in 1914.

[8] Further integration with the expanding city of Spokane to the south occurred in 1965 with the construction of Country Homes Boulevard which cuts diagonally across the CDP in a southwest–northeast direction.

[11] Roughly triangular in shape, the Census Bureau defines the CDP's bounds as from Five Mile Road in the northwest, along the northern edge of the Whitworth Campus and to U.S. Highway 2 in the northeast.

The western boundary is more irregular, largely following a steep bluff[11] which rises up to the Five Mile Prairie neighborhood of Spokane.

[14] There is a steep bluff immediately to the west of Country Homes which rises to over 2,400 feet on what is known as the Five Mile Prairie.

[11] Another shorter bluff runs along much of the northern boundary, falling off into the valley of the Little Spokane River, which flows just over one mile north of the CDP.

A small, ephemeral has cut a valley through the western side of the Whitworth University campus along Waikiki Road down to the Little Spokane.

[15] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.7 square miles (4.4 km2), all of it land.

Whitworth Drive and Hawthorne Road west of Division Street are classified as urban minor arterials.