The city planning commission for New Orleans divided the city into 13 planning districts and 73[1] distinct neighborhoods in 1980. Although initially in the study 68 neighborhoods were designated, and later increased by the City Planning Commission to 76 in October 2001 based in census data,[2] most planners, neighborhood associations, researchers, and journalists have since widely adopted the 73 as the number and can even trace the number back to the early 1900s.[1] 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 United States 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 the planning commission's usage.

East Bank

French Quarter / CBD, Warehouse (Districts 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)

Marigny, Bywater, St. Claude, St. Roch, Desire (District 7)

Lower Ninth Ward Area/Holy Cross (District 8)

Eastern New Orleans

New Orleans East (District 9)

Village de L'Est (District 10)

Venetian Isles / Lake Catherine (District 11)

West Bank

Algiers Area (District 12)

English Turn Area (District 13)

Latitude and longitude of neighborhoods

Neighborhood Longitude Latitude
U.S. NAVAL BASE -90.02609253 29.94608469
ALGIERS POINT -90.0516057 29.95246187
WHITNEY -90.04235744 29.94720026
AUDUBON -90.12145042 29.93299437
OLD AURORA -89.9953° W[14] 29.92444011
B. W. COOPER -90.09175301 29.95177397
BAYOU ST. JOHN -90.08651733 29.97607064
BEHRMAN -90.02643585 29.9348167
BLACK PEARL -90.13488293 29.93589521
BROADMOOR -90.10381222 29.9465681
MARLYVILLE - FONTAINEBLEAU -90.11346817 29.95300103
GERT TOWN -90.10582924 29.96028871
MID-CITY -90.09939194 29.97040133
ST. CLAUDE -90.03926754 29.97181404
CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT -90.07445812 29.95002632
FRENCH QUARTER -90.06437302 29.95883865
CENTRAL CITY -90.086689 29.93946537
LAKE CATHERINE -89.76104736 30.08810775
VILLAGE DE LEST -89.90112305 30.07325354
VIAVANT - VENETIAN ISLES -89.945755 30.00311157
NEW AURORA - ENGLISH TURN -89.94197845 29.90732938
TALL TIMBERS - BRECHTEL -90.01338959 29.91030537
FISCHER DEV -90.04154205 29.93239931
McDONOGH -90.05141258 29.94340726
LOWER GARDEN DISTRICT -90.06814957 29.93485389
ST. THOMAS DEV -90.07098198 29.92436572
EAST RIVERSIDE -90.09432793 29.91960476
IRISH CHANNEL -90.08565903 29.91633148
TOURO -90.09544373 29.923845
MILAN -90.09836197 29.93254808
UPTOWN -90.10788918 29.92644857
WEST RIVERSIDE -90.11672974 29.91618269
EAST CARROLLTON -90.12694359 29.94474598
FRERET -90.1071167 29.93715966
GARDEN DISTRICT -90.08505821 29.92793629
LEONIDAS -90.13097763 29.95359597
HOLLYGROVE -90.12299538 29.96727842
TULANE - GRAVIER -90.08522987 29.95961945
TREME - LAFITTE -90.07441521 29.96727842
SEVENTH WARD -90.06651878 29.97642379
MARIGNY -90.05587578 29.96504771
ST. ROCH -90.05209923 29.98214852
DIXON -90.11321068 29.97151663
LAKEWOOD -90.1199913 29.98549398
NAVARRE -90.11037827 29.98846764
CITY PARK -90.09372711 29.99917205
LAKEVIEW -90.10831833 30.00660499
WEST END -90.11861801 30.01366576
LAKESHORE - LAKE VISTA -90.09784698 30.02325275
FILMORE -90.07707596 30.01054422
ST. BERNARD AREA -90.08016586 29.99523236
DILLARD -90.06591797 29.99865172
ST. ANTHONY -90.06574631 30.01515218
LAKE TERRACE & OAKS -90.06420135 30.02867753
MILNEBURG -90.054245 30.01916539
PONTCHARTRAIN PARK -90.03931046 30.0219894
GENTILLY WOODS -90.03707886 30.00994963
GENTILLY TERRACE -90.05235672 30.00370621
DESIRE AREA -90.03330231 29.99389432
FLORIDA AREA -90.03742218 29.98021553
FLORIDA DEV -90.03252983 29.98170245
LOWER NINTH WARD -90.01304626 29.96891424
BYWATER -90.0302124 29.96534514
HOLY CROSS -90.01785278 29.95508328
PINES VILLAGE -90.02214432 30.01916539
PLUM ORCHARD -90.00188828 30.01604402
READ BLVD WEST -89.97922897 30.02005719
READ BLVD EAST -89.95519638 30.03551382
WEST LAKE FOREST -89.99210358 30.0270427
LITTLE WOODS -89.98386383 30.04190384
FAIRGROUNDS -90.0794363 29.98621882
IBERVILLE -90.07368565 29.95949861

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 New Orleans 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).

Another example is the use of the Wards as means of neighborhood identification for the city's residents. Originally created in 1805 with only 7 wards designated, there now are 17 in total.[15] Socially among locals the wards are divided by the ones located "uptown" and the ones located "downtown". Later in the 1980's there was a rise in the use of them as cultural identifiers with the emergence of bounce music and the recognition of the different dialects within them.[16]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Campanella, Richard (June 1, 2011). "City neighborhoods: a matter of evolving perception". The Lens. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  2. ^ "Neighborhood Definition". www.datacenterresearch.org. 2013. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  3. ^ Planning District 1a (Map). March 6, 2015. Archived from the original on March 6, 2015. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
  4. ^ Planning District 1b (Map). March 6, 2015. Archived from the original on March 6, 2015. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d "Planning districts and neighborhoods" (PDF).
  6. ^ Planning District 2 (Map). March 6, 2015. Archived from the original on March 6, 2015. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
  7. ^ Planning District 3 (Map). October 16, 2014. Archived from the original on October 16, 2014. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
  8. ^ Planning District 5 (Map). February 22, 2015. Archived from the original on February 22, 2015. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
  9. ^ Planning District 6 (Map). July 27, 2015. Archived from the original on July 27, 2015. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
  10. ^ Planning District 7 (Map). March 22, 2015. Archived from the original on March 22, 2015. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
  11. ^ Planning District 8 (Map). September 14, 2014. Archived from the original on September 14, 2014. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
  12. ^ Planning District 9 (Map). December 28, 2014. Archived from the original on December 28, 2014. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
  13. ^ Planning District 12 (Map). March 6, 2015. Archived from the original on March 6, 2015. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
  14. ^ "old aurora latitude longitude - Google Search". www.google.com. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
  15. ^ "New Orleans Ward Boundaries". nutrias.org. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
  16. ^ "The Wards of New Orleans |". Retrieved July 24, 2022.

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