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

French Quarter also called Vieux Carré Central Business District

Central City / Garden District Area (District 2) Source: Central City East Riverside Garden District Irish Channel Lower Garden District Milan St. Thomas Touro Faubourg Lafayette Faubourg Livaudais

Uptown / Carrollton Area (District 3) Source: 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) Source: Bayou St. John B.W. Cooper, formerly Calliope Projects Fairgrounds Gert Town Zion City, New Orleans 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) Source: City Park Lakeshore/Lake Vista Lakeview Lakewood Country Club Gardens Navarre West End

Gentilly Area (District 6) Source: Dillard Filmore Gentilly Terrace Gentilly Woods Lake Terrace/Lake Oaks Milneburg Pontchartrain Park St. Anthony

Marigny, Bywater, St. Claude, St. Roch, Desire (District 7) Sources: Bywater Desire Area New Desire Projects: Abundance Square Faubourg Marigny Florida Area Florida Projects St. Claude Musicians' Village St. Roch

Lower Ninth Ward Area/Holy Cross (District 8) Sources: Holy Cross Lower Ninth Ward

Eastern New Orleans New Orleans East (District 9) Source: 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) Village de L'Est Michoud

Venetian Isles / Lake Catherine (District 11) Viavant/Venetian Isles Lake Catherine

West Bank Algiers Area (District 12) Source: 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 Algiers) Christopher Homes Housing Development

English Turn Area (District 13) English Turn

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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 a means of neighborhood identification for the city's residents. Originally created in 1805 with only 7 wards designated, there now are 17 in total. 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.

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

External links City of NOLA Data Portal Neighborhood boundary data for these neighborhoods 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