In 1980 the New Orleans City Planning Commission divided the city into 13 planning districts and 72 distinct neighborhoods. See Orleans Parish neighborhood map
Contents
- Map of New Orleans LA USA
- French Quarter CBD District 1a 1b
- Central City Garden District Area District 2
- Uptown Carrollton Area District 3
- Mid City Area District 4
- Lakeview Area District 5
- Gentilly Area District 6
- Bywater Area District 7
- Lower Ninth Ward Area District 8
- Eastern New Orleans Area District 9
- Village de LEst District 10
- Venetian Isles Lake Catherine District 11
- Algiers Area District 12
- English Turn Area District 13
- Other divisions and designations
- References
Map of New Orleans, LA, USA
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.
French Quarter / CBD (District 1a & 1b)
Central City / Garden District Area (District 2)
Uptown / Carrollton Area (District 3)
Mid-City Area (District 4)
Lakeview Area (District 5)
Gentilly Area (District 6)
Bywater Area (District 7)
Lower Ninth Ward Area (District 8)
Eastern New Orleans Area (District 9)
Village de L'Est (District 10)
Venetian Isles / Lake Catherine (District 11)
Algiers Area (District 12)
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).