Neighborhoods of Atlanta

The City of Atlanta is divided into 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".

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 the I-75 / I-85 downtown connector is part of the "Buckhead Community".

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

The city of Atlanta lies in three counties in Georgia: primarily in Fulton, and partly in DeKalb to the east, and part Clayton south of the county
- 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)

The term "intown" is more commonly used to refer to any neighborhoods within the central part of the city.

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