Touro is a
neighborhood
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of the city of
. A subdistrict of the Central City/Garden District Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are:
St. Charles Avenue
St. Charles Avenue (french: avenue Saint-Charles) is a thoroughfare in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. and the route of the St. Charles Streetcar Line. It is also famous for the dozens of mansions that adorn the tree-lined boulevard for much of the ...
to the north, Toledano Street to the east,
Magazine Street
Magazine Street is a major thoroughfare in New Orleans, Louisiana. Like Tchoupitoulas Street, St. Charles Avenue, and Claiborne Avenue, it follows the curving course of the Mississippi River. The street took its name from an ammunition magazine ...
to the south and Napoleon Avenue to the west.
Geography
Touro is located at
and has an elevation of .
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the district has a total area of . of which is land and (0.0%) of which is water.
Adjacent Neighborhoods
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Milan
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(north)
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Garden District (east)
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East Riverside (south)
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Uptown (west)
Boundaries
The New Orleans City Planning Commission defines the boundaries of Touro as these streets: St. Charles Avenue, Toledano Street, Magazine Street and Napoleon Avenue.
Demographics
As of the
census
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of 2000, there were 3,242 people, 1,672 households, and 482 families living in the neighborhood.
The
population density
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was 10,807 /mi
2 (4,053 /km
2).
As of the
census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...
of 2010, there were 2,998 people, 1,572 households, and 429 families living in the neighborhood.
See also
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New Orleans neighborhoods
The city planning commission for New Orleans divided the city into 13 planning districts and 73 distinct neighborhoods in 1980. Although initially in the study 68 neighborhoods were designated, and later increased by the City Planning Commission to ...
References
Neighborhoods in New Orleans
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