Downtown Raleigh Neighborhoods

Boylan Heights

From its apex at Montfort Hall, the Boylan Heights neighborhood slopes steadily downward toward the east, south, and west.

Cameron Village

The late 1940’s and early 1950’s saw the development of a revolutionary idea: a center for living, with the coincidental founding of both the Cameron Village neighborhood and Cameron Village Shopping Center.

Dorothea Dix

Currently, the Dorothea Dix area has yet to be established as a neighborhood, however the land will be developed in some manner upon the closing of the Dorothea Dix hospital in late 2007 or early 2008

Downtown

Downtown Raleigh exists at the heart of the Triangle, the mostly rapidly expanding metropolitan region in the Carolinas. The urban center of the region, downtown is undoubtedly an amazing place to live, work, and play for businesses, residents and visitors alike.

Five Points

As residential and commercial development began to resume after World War I, and as Raleigh’s population continued to increase, the area of the Five Points Neighborhoods was developed

Glenwood South

The revitalization of large city warehouse-wholesale districts is a hallmark of this era, and the city of Raleigh is no exception.

Hayes Barton

In the half-century following World War I, a second wave of suburban development took place surrounding the city of Raleigh. The most distinguished of these new neighborhoods was Hayes Barton.

Historic Oakwood

Historic Oakwood, located near downtown Raleigh, is the single intact nineteenth century neighborhood in the city; and is Raleigh's o

Mordecai

Like Oakwood, Raleigh’s oldest surviving neighborhood, and Brooklyn, off Glenwood Avenue, the neighborhood of Mordecai is on the outskirts of the downtown area.