Atlanta has hundreds of neighborhoods, each with its own character and charm. We've identified some of the more popular neighborhoods across metro Atlanta.
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Neighboring the West End, Adair Park was established in 1892 as a settling place for Atlanta’s growing middle class. Adair Park is located southwest of downtown Atlanta and adjacent to the Norfolk...
Located in affluent north Fulton just above Roswell, this rapidly growing community provides rural and urban lifestyles. It is home to many corporate headquarters, particularly high-tech companies....
Ansley Park's wide roads and lawns make it feel like a park. In fact, several parks dot the area. In addition to its large historic homes, Ansley Park features apartment buildings constructed early...
Atlantic Station is a 138-acre development at the intersection of I-75 and I-85 in Midtown. The site of the former Atlantic Steel Mill includes 15 million square feet of retail, office and hotel sp...
The area now known as Ben Hill grew up in the early 1820s around several churches. Atlanta was not a thriving city, and the closest churches were in Decatur. One of the city's oldest, now Mt. Gilea...
This in-town neighborhood, lush with foliage and history, is filled with 80-year old-houses and 100-year-old trees. Once considered a suburban outpost, Brookwood is now a very desirable place to l...
The spine of ultra-elite Buckhead, north of Atlanta's midtown district, is Peachtree Street. Its epicenter is the intersection of Peachtree and Roswell roads. In the 19th century, after a patron sh...
The Cabbagetown Revitalization and Future Trust is credited with the neighborhood's revitalization. In the late 1980s, it began encouraging home renovation and the building of new infill homes. The...
The opening of Camp Creek Marketplace, easy access to interstates, the airport and downtown Atlanta, affordable land and the revitalization of nearby East Point have helped make the Camp Creek Park...
The Cascades corridor, in southwest Atlanta, is close to downtown, the airport and I-285. From downtown Atlanta, take I-20 west to I-285 south to Cascade Road. In the late 1980s, builders began to ...
Chastain Park, named for former Fulton County Commissioner Troy G. Chastain, is located northwest of Buckhead. It borders Sandy Springs. The area’s home prices run from $500,000 to $2 million. The ...
College Park was an early planned community. Styles in the neighborhood include English Tudor, Craftsman, Dutch Colonial, Spanish Colonial, Queen Anne, Folk Victorian, High Victorian Eclectic, Gree...
Convenient to I-285, I-20, and downtown, Collier Heights is located in the western corner of Atlanta. Collier Heights is an older neighborhood that’s vibrant and active. Residents have formed the F...
The Collier Hills area, anchored by Piedmont Hospital at Collier and Peachtree roads, turned 100 in 2005. The area is an active one, with Peachtree Street and Midtown/Buckhead on one side and North...
Horse farms and silos now share their quiet corner of north Fulton with subdivisions and mixed-use developments. The Five Corners intersection is the center of a community that has a small-town fee...
A new burst of energy is moving through downtown Atlanta. During the week, office and service workers, Georgia State University students and faculty and many convention visitors, stream into the ar...
East Atlanta, east of I-20, is the metro area's latest example of an older and somewhat rundown neighborhood reinventing itself as a trendy destination. A mostly younger crowd of residents and deve...
The construction of the MARTA line through downtown East Point displaced many businesses in the late 1970s. Now, however, being on a MARTA rail line is a great selling (and buying) point for civic ...
Located between Union City and Palmetto, and just off I-85, Fairburn offers both country and city living to its residents. It’s hard to believe downtown Atlanta is just 30 minutes away. Fairburn’s ...
Garden Hills is an historic planned residential neighborhood located five miles north of downtown Atlanta. It is located between Peachtree and Piedmont Roads, bordered on the north by Pharr Road an...
Georgia Railroad civil engineer Lemuel P. Grant, dubbed by historians the father of Atlanta, contributed the 131.5 acres in 1881 for the public Grant Park. From the 1890s to the 1920s, a neighborho...
Grove Park is an inner-city neighborhood in northwest Atlanta. It is set just inside I-285. Grove Park is a creative well, as it claims the bragging rights to be the original home of hip-hop sensat...
An urban vibe with a small-town atmosphere continues to draw newcomers to Hapeville. Surrounded by I-285, I-75 and I-85 and in the shadow of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Hapeville is ...
Inman Park is one of the city's most beautiful communities, with elegant Victorian homes, classic Craftsman bungalows, wide shady streets and the convenience of intown living. It is listed on the N...
Johns Creek, officially incorporated in December 2006, is named for the stream that runs through the area. Located in an affluent section of north Fulton County, it incorporated in part because res...
Kirkwood has seen a huge increase in property values in recent years as renovators and developers are again coming in, salvaging old homes and building new ones. The Kirkwood business district on H...
One of Atlanta’s older neighborhoods on the south side, Lakewood Heights was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. The neighborhood took its name from a recreation and resort a...
Bounded by LaVista Road on the south, Briarcliff Road on the east, Cheshire Bridge Road on the west, and Chantilly Drive on the north, Lavista Park is a leafy enclave of mostly ranch homes. It’s al...
Its funky urban vibe and cluster of shops, entertainment venues and restaurants characterize Little Five Points today. But its history is legendary: the Battle of Atlanta was fought in the area on ...
Previously known as a first-house neighborhood for working couples or employees of the Atlantic Steel plant, this intown neighborhood draws residents who are renovating to stay put when they have c...
Located one mile south of downtown Atlanta, Mechanicsville couldn’t be any more convenient. The name of this small community comes from the rail yard mechanics who lived and worked here. The locat...
The movement of residents back into the city in the past decade has fueled Midtown's residential market. Intown boosters talk of the Midtown Mile, where at least 10 high-rise condos are either open...
Milton, home to horse farms, golf courses and two-lane roads, has a lot of undeveloped land. So, more subdivisions and, potentially, more park land are in its future. The newly formed city became o...
Visitors and residents alike may be unsure where nearby Virginia-Highland ends and Morningside begins, despite Morningside's wide streets and pocket parks. The giveaway: the markers that went up in...
Tucked just behind Roswell off Woodstock Road, Mountain Park has only 300 homes, but the town has its own mayor, judge and all-volunteer fire department. Many municipal chores are also handled by r...
The eclectic Old Fourth Ward community, named for the Atlanta City Council district it once encompassed, is far from the frontier neighborhood it once was. With the old Sears, Roebuck building bei...
Located just east of downtown Atlanta, Ormewood Park is filled with Craftsman bungalows and frame cottages. Several examples of more ornate Victorian houses can also be found. A new generation of b...
Small, quaint and easy to miss, this south Fulton County city is tucked away in the countryside off I-85. With its picturesque city hall in the old train depot, several antique shops and restored t...
Peachtree Hills, annexed into the city of Atlanta in 1954, is within walking distance of the restaurants, shops and grocery store at Peachtree Battle Shopping Center, as well as E. Rivers Elementar...
An influx of residents looking for intown housing has begun to give Reynoldstown some respect. The neighborhood already had a place in history as a home for freed slaves after the Civil War. By the...
Roswell has grown from a sleepy town on the outskirts of Atlanta to a bustling city of 84,000 in the past 15 years. Its historic area, with beautiful antebellum homes, trendy shops, antique stores,...
Sandy Springs is a bustling urban area that includes some of the most expensive housing in Atlanta, as well as condos, town homes, apartments and shopping. Several areas are being redeveloped into ...
For folks who want to be in on the next new thing, Sylvan Hills is the ideal neighborhood. It’s full of brick bungalows, waiting to be restored. Priced in the upper $100,000s, those bungalows appea...
Peach orchards and pastures once dominated this southeast Atlanta community. In the 1960s, in an effort to attract middle-class families, a federal urban-renewal project provided affordable housin...
Conveniently located near the airport between College Park and Fairburn, Union City is an area that has benefited from the boom in south Fulton County. Affordable neighborhoods and access to shoppi...
Though it begins across the street from the Georgia Dome, Vine City hasn’t completely shared in its economic success. The neighborhood is ripe for adventurous urban dwellers. With its proximity to ...
Virginia-Highland is known for shopping and restaurants, tree-lined streets and parks and homes with character. Its charming mix of renovated 1920s bungalows, cottages and four-square houses, neigh...
West End includes turn-of-the-century bungalows and cottages as well as infill housing constructed in the last decade. New town homes with a 1930s look sit next to smaller historic ones built in th...