Uptown is a primarily residential neighborhood of the city of New Orleans.

A subdistrict of the Uptown/Carrollton Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: LaSalle Street to the north, Napoleon Avenue to the east, Magazine Street to the south and Jefferson Avenue to the west.

[2] According to the United States Census Bureau, the district has a total area of 0.64 square miles (1.7 km2).

[3] Uptown New Orleans is colloquially used to describe a number of neighborhoods between the French Quarter and Jefferson Parish line.

As of the census of 2000, there were 6,681 people, 3,233 households, and 1,446 families living in the neighborhood.