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In 1980 the New Orleans City Planning Commission divided the city into 13 planning districts and 72 distinct neighborhoods.

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.

[edit] East Bank

[edit] French Quarter / CBD (District 1)

Vieux Carré, also called the French Quarter
Central Business District

[edit] Central City / Garden District Area (District 2)

[edit] 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

[edit] Mid-City Area (District 4)

Bayou St. John
B.W. Cooper, formerly Calliope Projects
Fairgrounds
Gert Town, also called Zion City
Iberville Development (Note: This area was built on the site of the infamous Storyville neighborhood.)
Mid-City
St. Bernard Projects
Seventh Ward
Treme/Lafitte
Tulane/Gravier

[edit] Lakeview Area (District 5)

[edit] Gentilly Area (District 6)

[edit] Bywater Area (District 7)

[edit] Lower Ninth Ward Area (District 8)

[edit] New Orleans East

[edit] New Orleans East Area (District 9)

[edit] Village de L'Est (District 10)

Village de L'Est

[edit] Venetian Isles / Lake Catherine (District 11)

[edit] West Bank

[edit] Algiers Area (District 12)

Algiers Point
Algiers Naval Station
Aurora, also called Old Aurora; includes Walnut Bend and Huntlee Village
Behrman, New Orleans
Fischer Development
McDonogh, formerly called McDonoghville
Tall Timbers / Brechtel

[edit] English Turn Area (District 13)

English Turn
New Aurora (Includes River Park, Cut Off, and Lower Coast)

[edit] Other divisions and designations

There have been a number of traditional and historic divisions of New Orleans, some of which are still used in common local 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 or cities in the 19th century, such as Algiers and Carrollton continue to be spoken of as neighborhoods. The large area of the city to 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 designated as Eastern New Orleans (or sometimes "New Orleans East", although that term sometimes is confined to a smaller subset of that area).

[edit] References

Data Analysis Unit, Economic Development Division, City of New Orleans (1985). An overview of New Orleans.

[edit] See also

New Orleans portal

[edit] External links

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

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