Neighborhoods in Atlanta

Note: many unincorporated communities in DeKalb County adjacent to Atlanta, including Brookhaven, Druid Hills CDP, and North Druid Hills, use "Atlanta" in their postal address but are not part of the City of Atlanta. See DeKalb County

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Neighborhoods

The City of Atlanta is divided into of 242 neighborhoods officially defined by the city. These "neighborhoods" are a mix of

The neighborhoods are divisions of 25 neighborhood planning units or NPUs, which are "citizen advisory councils that make recommendations to the Mayor and City Council on zoning, land use, and other planning issues".[1]

Districts

The term "district" in Atlanta is generally used for small areas within the official neighborhoods. Downtown and Midtown Atlanta each contain a number of districts. Another example is Little Five Points, which sits on the border of 3 official neighborhoods.

In addition, Atlanta has various other divisions such as business improvement districts, police patrol zones, and in the unique case of Buckhead, a "community". Most of Atlanta north of I-75 and I-85 is part of the "Buckhead Community".

Areas

Although all of Atlanta is officially divided into Neighborhood Planning Units, it is more common in the news media[2] to refer to the larger areas of the city in one of three ways:

Neighborhoods (by area)

The city lies in two counties in Georgia: primarily in Fulton, and partly in DeKalb to the east.
- Numbers to the right of the neighborhood indicate its position on the map above
- "n" is a link to the corresponding neighborhood association
- "h" indicates a link to the homepage of the corresponding historic district (if the neighborhood is one)

Intown Atlanta

Intown Atlanta includes Downtown, Midtown, as well as other older east-central neighborhoods

Downtown

Downtown Atlanta n is a neighborhood that contains the following sub-districts:

Midtown

Midtown, as defined by the Midtown Alliance,[3] consists of these neighborhoods:

West Midtown (also known as Westside)

West Midtown is an unofficial area whose definition varies, and includes:

Sometimes Bolton and Hills Park are also included (see below: Northwestern Atlanta)

East Side

Southeastern Atlanta

Southwestern Atlanta

Also informally known as Cascade or SWATs

  • Campbellton Road
  • Capitol View
  • Capitol View Manor
  • Carroll Heights
  • Cascade Avenue/Road
  • Cascade Green
  • Cascade Heights
  • Chalet Woods
  • Collier Heights
  • Deerwood
  • East Ardley Road
  • Elmco Estates
  • Fairburn
  • Fairburn Heights
  • Fairburn Road/Wisteria Lane
  • Fairburn Tell
  • Fairburn Mays
  • Fairway Acres
  • Florida Heights
  • Fort McPherson
  • Fort Valley
  • Green Acres Valley
  • Green Forest Acres
  • Greenbriar
  • Greenbriar Village
  • Hammond Park
  • Harland Terrace
  • Harris Chiles
  • Heritage Valley
  • Horseshoe Community
  • Huntington
  • Ivan Hill
  • Just Us
  • Kings Forest
  • Lake Estates
  • Laurens Valley
  • Magnum Manor
  • Mays
  • Meadowbrook Forest
  • Mechanicsville
  • Mellwood
  • Midwest Cascade
  • Mt. Gilead Woods
  • Niskey Cove
  • Niskey Lake
  • Oakcliff
  • Oakland City
  • Old Fairburn Village
  • Old Gordon
  • Pamond Park
  • Peoplestown
  • Perkerson
  • Peyton Forest
  • Pittsburgh
  • Princeton Lakes
  • Regency Trace
  • Ridgecrest Forest
  • Rue Royal
  • Sandlewood Estates
  • Southwest
  • Sylvan Hills
  • Tampa Park
  • Underwood Hills
  • Venetian Hills
  • West End h
  • West Manor
  • Westhaven
  • Westview
  • Westwood Terrace
  • Wildwood
  • Wildwood Forest
  • Wilson Mill Meadows
  • Wisteria Gardens

Northwestern Atlanta

Buckhead

References

  1. ^ "Neighborhood Planning Units", City of Atlanta Online, retrieved June 20, 2010
  2. ^ http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/
  3. ^ a b Midtown Alliance
  4. ^ http://www.atlantaga.gov/government/planning/npu_system.aspx

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