List of Harrisburg neighborhoods

Common usage for Harrisburg's neighborhood names does not respect "official" borders used by the city's police, planning commission or other entities.

[1] Historian Jeb Stuart wrote of the overlapping patchwork of neighborhoods, while "potentially confusing, only speaks positively to the ongoing quest of the citizenry in naming and building community cohesiveness in the areas in which they live."

Neighborhoods distinguish themselves through architecture, construction, time period, setting, topography and reasons for development.

The boundary of Harrisburg's Downtown is considered Forster Street to the north, I-83 to the south, the railroad tracks to the east, and the Susquehanna River to the west.

Smaller rowhouse neighborhoods and detached homes in Bellevue Park make up this area, in addition to commercial corridors along South 29th and Derry Streets, an industrial corridor adjacent to the railroad tracks, and larger institutional uses such as John Harris High School, the Marshall Math Science Academy, and the former Bishop McDevitt High School.