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

Neighborhoods [link]

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

• traditional neighborhoods
• subdivisions or groups of subdivisions
• core areas such as Downtown and Midtown

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 [link]

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 [link]

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:

• Downtown, Midtown, and most of the central, east-central, west-central neighborhoods are referred to by their names, as these are well known throughout the Atlanta metro area, and most contain regional "destinations", such as the Zoo in Grant Park, or the shops and restaurants in Virginia Highland (other examples include East Lake, East Atlanta, Ormewood, Bankhead, and Kirkwood, though they are not limited to these).
• Buckhead neighborhoods are referred to collectively as Buckhead – this covers the entire northern fifth of the city (north of I-75 and I-85)
• Other areas are generally referred to as part of either "Northwest", "Southwest", or "Southeast Atlanta". However, "East Atlanta" refers to a small neighborhood with is part of the 'W' group NPU and does not have the same connotation as the other directional descriptors.

Neighborhoods (by area) [link]

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 [link]

Intown Atlanta includes Downtown, Midtown, as well as other older eastside neighborhoods

Neighborhoods of Intown Atlanta

The Little Five Points district is located where Inman Park and Candler Park meet.

Southeastern Atlanta [link]

Amal Heights Benteen Park Betmar LaVilla Blair Villa/Poole Creek Boulevard Heights Browns Mill Park Chosewood Park Custer/McDonough/Guice Englewood Manor (AHA property demolished 2008) Glenrose Heights High Point Joyland Lakewood Lakewood Heights

Leila Valley (AHA property demolished 2008) Norwood Manor Orchard Knob Polar Rock Rebel Valley Forest Rosedale Heights South Atlanta South River Gardens State Facility Swallow Circle/Baywood The Villages at Carver Thomasville Heights (AHA property demolished 2010-11) Woodland Hills

Neighborhoods of Southeast Atlanta

Southwestern Atlanta [link]

Southwest Atlanta was as of the 2010 census, 92% African American. It is an area with many nicknames — one is Cascade.^[4] In street or hip-hop contexts, Southwest Atlanta is frequently referred to as the S.W.A.T.S., which is often understood to extend to adjacent cities College Park and East Point.^[5] "S.W.A.T.S." is said to stand for "Southwest Atlanta, too strong".^[6] Also in hip-hop culture, S.W.A.T.S is said to be the "King Shit", for example in the lyrics of the Outkast song "Peaches (Intro)": "For…the SWATS…Cause it ain't nuttin but King Shit, all day, err'day", which means "For…the SWATS…because it's nothing but 'King Shit', all day, everyday".^[7]

Southwest Atlanta

Northwestern Atlanta [link]

Northwest Atlanta

Buckhead [link]

Buckhead

References [link]

1. ^ "Neighborhood Planning Units", City of Atlanta Online, retrieved June 20, 2010
2. ^ https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/
3. ^ ^{a b} Midtown Alliance
4. ^ [cascade.patch.com Cascade Patch]
5. ^ Mickey Hess, Hip Hop in America: East Coast and West Coast
6. ^ "Revolution Rock: Atlanta's Goodie MOb fight for truth, justice, but not necessarily the American Way", Vibe, June-July 1998
7. ^ Lyircs to "Peaches (Intro)" by Outkast, lyricsmania.com
8. ^ https://www.atlantaga.gov/government/planning/npu_system.aspx

External links [link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Neighborhoods of Atlanta, Georgia

• City of Atlanta list of neighborhoods and NPUs
• List of Atlanta Neighborhood Associations

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