Neighborhoods in New Orleans
In 1980 the New Orleans City Planning Commission divided the city into 13 planning districts and 72 distinct neighborhoods. See Orleans Parish neighborhood map
While most of these assigned boundaries match with traditional local designations, some others differ from common traditional use. This is a result of the City Planning Commission's wish to divide the city into sections for governmental planning and zoning purposes without crossing U.S. Census tract boundaries. While most of the listed names have been in common use by New Orleanians for generations, some designated names are rarely heard outside of the Planning Commission usage.
Contents
- 1 East Bank
- 1.1 French Quarter / CBD (District 1a & 1b)
- 1.2 Central City / Garden District Area (District 2)
- 1.3 Uptown / Carrollton Area (District 3)
- 1.4 Mid-City Area (District 4)
- 1.5 Lakeview Area (District 5)
- 1.6 Gentilly Area (District 6)
- 1.7 Bywater Area (District 7)
- 1.8 Lower Ninth Ward Area (District 8)
- 2 Eastern New Orleans
- 3 West Bank
- 4 Other divisions and designations
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 External links
East Bank
French Quarter / CBD (District 1a & 1b)
- Vieux Carré, also called the French Quarter
- Central Business District
Central City / Garden District Area (District 2)
- Central City
- East Riverside
- Garden District
- Irish Channel
- Lower Garden District
- Milan
- St. Thomas
- Touro
- Faubourg Lafayette
- Faubourg Livaudais
Uptown / Carrollton Area (District 3)
- Audubon, also known as University
- Black Pearl
- Broadmoor
- Dixon
- East Carrollton
- Freret
- Hollygrove
- Leonidas, also called West Carrollton
- Fontainebleau, also called Marlyville
- Uptown
- West Riverside
Mid-City Area (District 4)
- Bayou St. John
- B.W. Cooper, formerly Calliope Projects
- Fairgrounds
- Faubourg St. John
- Gert Town, also called Zion City
- Iberville Development (Note: This area was built on the site of the infamous Storyville neighborhood.)
- Mid-City
- Parkview
- Seventh Ward
- St. Bernard Projects
- Tremé/Lafitte
- Tulane/Gravier
Lakeview Area (District 5)
Gentilly Area (District 6)
- Dillard
- Filmore
- Gentilly Terrace
- Gentilly Woods
- Lake Terrace/Lake Oaks
- Milneburg
- Pontchartrain Park
- St. Anthony
Bywater Area (District 7)
- Bywater
- Desire Area
- New Desire Projects: Abundance Square
- Faubourg Marigny
- Florida Area
- Florida Projects
- St. Claude
- St. Roch
Lower Ninth Ward Area (District 8)
Eastern New Orleans
Eastern New Orleans Area (District 9)
- Little Woods, also called Edge Lake
- Pines Village
- Plum Orchard
- Read Boulevard East
- Read Boulevard West
- West Lake Forest
Village de L'Est (District 10)
Venetian Isles / Lake Catherine (District 11)
West Bank
Algiers Area (District 12)
- Algiers Point
- U.S. Naval Support Area
- Aurora, also called Old Aurora; includes Huntlee Village and Walnut Bend
- Behrman, New Orleans
- Fischer Housing Development
- McDonogh, formerly called McDonoghville
- Tall Timbers / Brechtel
- New Aurora (Includes River Park, Cut Off, and Lower Coast)
English Turn Area (District 13)
Other divisions and designations
There are a number of traditional and historic divisions of New Orleans which may still be commonly heard of in conversation, but which do not correspond with City Planning Commission designations.
The 19th-century division of the city along the axis of Canal Street into downtown and uptown is a prime example. Various areas of the modern city which were separate towns in the past, such as Algiers and Carrollton, continue to be spoken of – but now as neighborhoods. The large area to the east of the Industrial Canal and north of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal, little developed until the last third of the 20th century, is often referred to as Eastern New Orleans (or "New Orleans East," although that term usually refers to a smaller subset of the area).
See also
- Buildings and architecture of New Orleans
- Downtown New Orleans
- Uptown New Orleans
- Wards of New Orleans
- Housing Authority of New Orleans
- List of streets of New Orleans
References
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External links
- City of NOLA Data Portal Neighborhood boundary data for these neighborhoods
- NOLAhoods.com This site showcases many of the 85+ distinct neighborhoods within New Orleans, with a comprehensive calendar and current news feeds.
- Greater New Orleans Community Data Center This site produces New Orleans profiles based on the City Planning Commission's New Orleans neighborhood breakdown.
- New Orleans Neighborhood Guide
