Neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky

This is a list of official neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky. Like many older American cities, Louisville has well-defined neighborhoods, many with well over a century of history as a neighborhood.

"Louisville metro" redirects here. For the unified county-level government formerly known as Jefferson County, see Louisville Metro.
The fountain at St. James Court in Old Louisville

The oldest neighborhoods are the riverside areas of Downtown and Portland (initially a separate settlement), representing the early role of the river as the most important form of commerce and transportation. As the city expanded, peripheral neighborhoods like Butchertown, Phoenix Hill, Russell, Shelby Park, Smoketown and others were developed to house and employ the growing population.

The arrival of the streetcar allowed suburbs to be built further out, such as Beechmont, Belknap, Old Louisville, Shawnee and the Highlands. An interurban rail line in the early 1900s led to communities east of Louisville such as Anchorage and Glenview becoming year-round homes for the rich. Some of Louisville's very rich also moved to mansions along Alta Vista road, in today's Cherokee-Seneca neighborhood.

Pre-merger
Percentage of housing units built before 1940. Dark green represents a 53% to 83% concentration, and is seen in the Old Louisville, Highlands, Crescent Hill, Portland and Butchertown neighborhoods. A 30% to 52% concentration (pea green) can be found throughout many other areas inside I-264.
  1. Algonquin
  2. Auburndale
  3. Audubon
  4. Avondale-Melbourne Heights
  5. Bashford Manor
  6. Beechmont
  7. Belknap
  8. Belmar
  9. Bon Air
  10. Bonnycastle
  11. Bradley
  12. Brownsboro-Zorn
  13. Butchertown
  14. California
  15. Camp Taylor
  16. Cherokee Gardens
  17. Cherokee-Seneca
  18. Cherokee Triangle
  19. Chickasaw
  20. Clifton
  21. Clifton Heights
  22. Cloverleaf
  23. Crescent Hill
  24. Deer Park
  25. Douglass Loop
  26. Downtown
  27. Edgewood
  28. Gardiner Lane
  29. Germantown
  30. Hallmark
  31. Hawthorne
  32. Hayfield Dundee
  33. Hazelwood
  34. Highland Park - Defunct
  35. Highlands
  36. Hikes Point
  37. Irish Hill
  38. Iroquois (Bryn Mawr)
  39. Iroquois (Kenwood)
  40. Iroquois Park
  41. Jacobs
  42. Kenwood Hill
  43. Klondike
  44. Limerick
  45. Lucky Horseshoe
  46. Meriwether
  47. NuLu
  48. Old Louisville
  49. Original Highlands
  50. Paristown Pointe
  51. Park DuValle
  52. Park Hill
  53. Parkland
  54. Phoenix Hill
  55. Poplar Level
  56. Portland
  57. Prestonia
  58. Rockcreek-Lexington Road
  59. Russell
  60. Saint Joseph
  61. Schnitzelburg
  62. Shawnee
  63. Shelby Park
  64. Smoketown
  65. SoBro
  66. South Louisville
  67. Southern Heights
  68. Southland Park
  69. Southside
  70. Standiford - Defunct
  71. Taylor-Berry
  72. Tyler Park
  73. Wilder Park
  74. Wyandotte (also called Oakdale)

Unincorporated places

After merger, unincorporated census designated places in Jefferson County were considered by many (local media for example) to have become neighborhoods of Louisville.

Select unincorporated places, most of which were previously considered CDPs (census-designated places), are:

Other unincorporated places include:

Incorporated places

After merger, incorporated places in Jefferson County became a part of Louisville while retaining their respective small city governments. Most of these small cities are considered neighborhoods of Louisville although the neighborhood boundaries are not necessarily contiguous with the boundaries of the small cities. Listed under St. Matthews are former cities it annexed and thus are now included as its neighborhoods.

Designated as neighborhoods

Some attractions and areas in Louisville are officially designated as neighborhoods.

See also

Further reading
  • A place in time: The story of Louisville's neighborhoods. Louisville, Kentucky: The Courier-Journal. 1989.
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