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Neighborhoods in District 6

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Lake Terrace/ Lake Oaks
St. Anthony
Dillard

Pontchartrain Park
Gentilly Woods
Gentilly Terrace
Milneburg

Although the Bayou Sauvage ridge long provided access into New Orleans from the East, Gentilly is one of the newer areas of the City.
 
The construction of the Pontchartrain Railroad in 1831 connected the Vieux Carré with the Lake and spurred the development of a resort town around its terminus at the Milneburg Port.  The 1927 seawall and fill project added residential property to the district and displaced several buildings that contributed to the closure of Milneburg in 1930. Around this time, the District’s first residential development, Gentilly Terrace, was taking form on the high ground on the Bayou Sauvage ridge. Soon thereafter, residential development spread across the District with some of the more recent developments, Pontchartrain Park and Gentilly Woods, being completed in the mid-1950s.  In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the University of New Orleans, then LSUNO, and Southern University New Orleans joined Dillard University as fully accredited four-year universities within the District.

Today, District 6 is home to these three universities and the Baptist Theological Seminary, but its dominant land use remains residential with housing accounting for 61.4% of all land area. Prior to Katrina, the 60.2% of the population that was African American was fairly consistent with citywide statistics, but the prevalence of owner occupied housing set Gentilly apart from other New Orleans neighborhoods.

With the exception of the higher ground along Gentilly Boulevard (which parallels the Bayou Sauvage Ridge) and the neighborhoods along the Lake that were built upon artificial fill, District 6 experienced some of the worst flooding as a result of Katrina. Many residential structures that were built upon slabs experienced flooding up to their roofs and are uninhabitable for the foreseeable future. (Sources: City of New Orleans 1999 Land Use Plan and GCR & Associates, Inc.)

Housing Characteristics: District 6
Housing Units Vacant Units Occupied Units/ Households Owner Occupied Units Renter Occupied Units
Pre-Katrina Total 18,491 100.00% 1,262 100.00% 17,229 100.00% 12,348 100.00% 4,881 100.00%
Less Than 2' of Flooding 1,076 5.82% 44 3.49% 1,032 5.99% 570 4.62% 462 9.47%
Between 2 - 4' of Flooding 2,281 12.34% 125 9.90% 2,156 12.51% 1,384 11.21% 772 15.82%
4' and Greater Flooding 15,134 81.85% 1,093 86.61% 14,041 81.50% 10,394 84.18% 3,647 74.72%

Population Characteristics: District 6
Total Population African-American Pop. White Population Other Population Pop. 65 and Older
Pre-Katrina Total 44,133 100.00% 30,587 100.00% 11,633 100.00% 1,913 100.00% 7,162 100.00%
Less Than 2' of Flooding 2,267 5.14% 1,239 4.05% 909 7.81% 119 6.22% 568 7.93%
Between 2 - 4' of Flooding 6,083 13.78% 4,252 13.90% 1,621 13.93% 210 10.98% 791 11.04%
4' and Greater Flooding 35,783 81.08% 25,096 82.05% 9,103 78.25% 1,584 82.80% 5,803 81.02%

 

 

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1: French Quarter/CBD
2: Central City/Garden District
3: Uptown/Carrollton
4: Mid-City
5: Lakeview
6: Gentilly
7: Bywater
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