Neighborhoods in New Orleans

Neighborhoods In New Orleans

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.