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Table of Atlanta neighborhoods with over 500 population ... Georgia Tech: 6,607: E ... Table of Atlanta neighborhoods by population.
Although the foreign-born population in the city itself is low among large US cities and even compared to Atlanta's own metro area, it is high compared to other nearby Southern cities. For example, in Macon, Georgia , 7.1% were US-born outside the South and 3.0% foreign-born, and in Birmingham, Alabama only 7.7% were US-born outside the South ...
The city of Atlanta, Georgia is made up of 243 neighborhoods officially defined by the city. [1] These neighborhoods are a mix of traditional neighborhoods, subdivisions, or groups of subdivisions. The neighborhoods are grouped by the city planning department into 25 neighborhood planning units (NPUs).
It was Atlanta's largest African American suburb in the mid 20th century. [4] By the 1990s and 2000s, the neighborhood experienced a major decline due to blight, high crime, and low performing area public schools. Many middle-class Black families left for homes in southwest Atlanta or outside the city. However, since the 2010s, investments in ...
The town of Marietta is also home to the Walker School, a private pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade school. Walker competes in the Georgia High School Association Class A (Region 6) athletic division while Marietta and Wheeler compete in Class AAAAAA (Regions 4 and 5, respectively). The school system employs 1,200 people.
The area comprises several high school attendance districts: Pope, Sprayberry, Wheeler, Kell, Walton, and Lassiter. The western half of the Kell district lies outside of East Cobb. The extreme western portion of the Sprayberry district (the Town Center Mall area) also lies outside of East Cobb. The extreme southwestern and southern portions of ...
"History of the Negro upper class in Atlanta, Georgia, 1890-1958." Journal of Negro Education 28.2 (1959): 128–139. online; Merritt, Carole. "African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City," Southern Spaces, March 2004. Plank, David N., and Marcia Turner. "Changing patterns in Black school politics: Atlanta, 1872-1973."
Metro Atlanta, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Roswell metropolitan statistical area, is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Georgia and the sixth-largest in the United States, based on the July 1, 2023 metropolitan area population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.