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.

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


• # Algonquin

• # Auburndale

• # Audubon

• # Avondale-Melbourne Heights

• # Bashford Manor

• # Beechmont

• # Belknap

• # Belmar

• # Bon Air

• # Bonnycastle

• # Bradley

• # Brownsboro-Zorn

• # Butchertown

• # California

• # Camp Taylor

• # Cherokee Gardens

• # Cherokee-Seneca

• # Cherokee Triangle

• # Chickasaw

• # Clifton

• # Clifton Heights

• # Cloverleaf

• # Crescent Hill

• # Deer Park

• # Douglass Loop

• # Downtown

• # Edgewood

• # Gardiner Lane

• # Germantown

• # Hallmark

• # Hawthorne

• # Hayfield Dundee

• # Hazelwood

• # Highland Park - Defunct

• # Highlands

• # Hikes Point

• # Irish Hill

• # Iroquois (Bryn Mawr)

• # Iroquois (Kenwood)

• # Iroquois Park

• # Jacobs

• # Kenwood Hill

• # Klondike

• # Limerick

• # Lucky Horseshoe

• # Meriwether

• # NuLu

• # Old Louisville

• # Original Highlands

• # Paristown Pointe

• # Park DuValle

• # Park Hill

• # Parkland

• # Phoenix Hill

• # Poplar Level

• # Portland

• # Prestonia

• # Rockcreek-Lexington Road

• # Russell

• # Saint Joseph

• # Schnitzelburg

• # Shawnee

• # Shelby Park

• # Smoketown

• # SoBro

• # South Louisville

• # Southern Heights

• # Southland Park

• # Southside

• # Standiford - Defunct

• # Taylor-Berry

• # Tyler Park

• # Wilder Park

• # 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: • Buechel

• Fairdale

• Fern Creek

• Highview

• Newburg

• Okolona

• Pleasure Ridge Park

• Saint Dennis (often spelled locally as St. Dennis)

• Valley Station

Other unincorporated places include:

• Ashville (Glenmary)

• Avoca

• Beckley (Lake Forest)

• Beechland Beach

• Berrytown

• Bethany

• Boston (not to be confused with the community of the same name in nearby Nelson County)

• Candlelight

• Cardinal Hill

• Clark Station

• Eastwood

• English Station

• Fairmount

• Fisherville

• Freys Hill (Springhurst)

• Goose Creek

• Greenwood (Riverport)

• Griffytown

• Harrods Creek

• Hopewell

• Hunters Trace

• Johnsontown

• Juniper Beach

• Knopp (Knopp-Melton)

• Kosmosdale

• Lake Forest

• Lake Dreamland

• Lake Louisvilla

• Lakeland

• Long Run

• Longview

• Meadowlawn

• Medora

• Norton Commons

• O'Bannon

• Orell

• Parkwood

• Penile

• Petersburg

• Plainview

• Prairie Village

• Riverside Gardens

• Routt

• Rubbertown

• Scottsdale

• Seatonville

• Smyrna

• South Park

• Springdale

• Sylvania

• Thixton

• Transylvania Beach

• Tucker Station

• Valley Downs

• Valley Gardens

• Valley Village

• Waverly Hills

• Whitner

• Wisertown

• Wolf Creek

• Worthington

• Yorktown

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. • Anchorage

• Audubon Park

• Bancroft

• Barbourmeade

• Beechwood Village

• Bellemeade

• Bellewood

• Blue Ridge Manor

• Briarwood

• Broeck Pointe

• Brownsboro Farm

• Brownsboro Village

• Cambridge

• Coldstream

• Creekside

• Crossgate

• Douglass Hills

• Druid Hills

• Fincastle

• Forest Hills

• Glenview

• Glenview Hills

• Glenview Manor

• Goose Creek

• Graymoor-Devondale

• Green Spring

• Heritage Creek (originally Minor Lane Heights)

• Hickory Hill

• Hills and Dales

• Hollow Creek

• Hollyvilla

• Houston Acres

• Hurstbourne

• Hurstbourne Acres

• Indian Hills

• Jeffersontown

• Kingsley

• Langdon Place

• Lincolnshire

• Lyndon

• * Keeneland

• Lynnview

• Manor Creek

• Maryhill Estates

• Meadowbrook Farm

• Meadow Vale

• Meadowview Estates

• Middletown

• Mockingbird Valley

• Moorland

• Murray Hill

• Norbourne Estates

• Northfield

• Norwood

• Old Brownsboro Place

• Parkway Village

• Plantation

• Poplar Hills

• Prospect

• Richlawn

• Riverwood

• Rolling Fields

• Rolling Hills

• St. Matthews

• * Broad Fields

• * Cherrywood Village

• * Fairmeade

• * Plymouth Village

• * Springlee

• * Warwick Village

• St. Regis Park

• Seneca Gardens

• Shively

• Spring Mill

• Spring Valley

• Strathmoor Manor

• Strathmoor Village

• Sycamore

• Ten Broeck

• Thornhill

• Watterson Park

• Wellington

• West Buechel

• Westwood

• Whipps Millgate

• Wildwood

• Windy Hills

• Woodland Hills

• Woodlawn Park

• Worthington Hills

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


 * Bowman Field
 * Fairgrounds
 * University of Louisville (Belknap Campus)

Historic neighborhoods

 * Standiford: Bordered Interstate 65 to the east and the Louisville International Airport to the north, west and south. It was displaced by the expansion of the airport, and it is currently the site for Louisville Air National Guard Base, which was relocated to make room for an expansion of the UPS WorldPort.