A sub-district of the Mid-City District Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: A.P.

[1] According to the United States Census Bureau, the district has a total area of 1.16 square miles (3.0 km2), all of which is land.

Frenchmen Street, the popular destination for food and live music, is in the front of the ward near the French Quarter.

The "design-build" process, one specially allowed only in parishes affected by Hurricane Katrina under Louisiana law, was used to rebuild this library and four others.

They were designed to have better access to public transportation and have reduced utility usage, including having electricity and water-saving features, in order to be more cost effective.

The London Avenue Canal breached catastrophically on both sides, flooding the majority of the Ward and the surrounding area.

Notable people from the 7th Ward include jazz musicians/composers Lionel Ferbos, Jelly Roll Morton, director, actor Vernel Bagneris, Barney Bigard, and Sidney Bechet, Allen Toussaint, singer Lee Dorsey, singer Lizzie Miles, Jazz singers Germaine Bazzle, Sharon Martin; actor Anthony Mackie, rapper/producer Mannie Fresh, rapper Mia X, author/commentator Melissa Harris-Perry, civil rights leader A. P. Tureaud, playwright Tyler Perry, authors Brenda Marie Osbey, Mona Lisa Saloy, Fatima Shaik, singer John Boutte, singer-songwriter Frank Ocean and fellow schoolmate R&B singer Luke James, football players Tyrann Mathieu Trai Turner and Leonard Fournette, boxer Joseph Dorsey Jr., mayors Ernest Morial, Sidney Barthelemy, and C. Ray Nagin, mathematician Beverly Anderson, rap artists Scott Arceneaux (Scrim) and Aristos Petrou (Ruby da Cherry) of Suicideboys.