St. Anthony is a
neighborhood
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of the city of
. A subdistrict of the Gentilly District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: New York Street to the north,
Elysian Fields Avenue
Elysian Fields Avenue is a broad, straight avenue in New Orleans named after the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. It courses south to north from the Lower Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, a distance of approximately . The avenue i ...
to the east, Mirabeau Avenue to the south and the
London Avenue Canal The London Avenue Canal is a drainage canal in New Orleans, Louisiana, used for pumping rain water into Lake Pontchartrain. The canal runs through the 7th Ward of New Orleans from the Gentilly area to the Lakefront. It is one of the three main drai ...
to the west.
The neighborhood is part of the
Gentilly section of the city as well as the city's
7th Ward.
The area experienced
disastrous flooding at the end of August 2005 from a levee failure on the London Avenue Canal during Hurricane Katrina.
Geography
St. Anthony 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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Lake Terrace/Lake Oaks (north)
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Milneburg
Milneburg was a town on the southern shore of Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana that was absorbed into the city of New Orleans. A neighborhood to the south of this area is still sometimes known by this name; the former location of Milneburg is now i ...
(east)
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Gentilly Terrace (east)
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Dillard (south)
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Filmore (west)
Boundaries
The City Planning Commission defines the boundaries of St. Anthony as these streets: New York Street, Elysian Fields Avenue, Mirabeau Avenue and the London Avenue Canal.
Demographics
As of the
census
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of 2000, there were 5,318 people, 2,233 households, and 1,360 families residing in the neighborhood.
The
population density
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was 8,441 /mi
2 (3,324 /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 3,510 people, 1,430 households, and 868 families residing 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 ...
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Gentilly, New Orleans
Gentilly is a broad, predominantly middle-class and racially diverse section of New Orleans, Louisiana. The Gentilly neighborhood is bounded by Lake Pontchartrain to the north, France Road to the east, Bayou St. John to the west, and CSX Transpo ...
References
Neighborhoods in New Orleans
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