What Your Louisville Neighborhood Says About You (Part 1)

By LEO Weekly Staff on Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 8:59 pm

Whether you are repping your hood or trying to forget your old stomping grounds, in Louisville, after folks ask, “What high school did you attend?” they are going to ask where you live, and they want to know your neighborhood. If you’re from the East End, you must have a trust fund and a silver spoon. If you’re from anywhere past Ninth Street, everyone very wrongly assumes that you live in a crime-ridden warzone. If you’re from Germantown, you’re either a hipster or stealing hubcaps.

Since we all have opinions about our city’s neighborhoods, we made our own assumptions based on your neighborhoods. If you don’t see your neighborhood on this list… just wait. We’ll get to you in Part II.

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Old Louisville

Full of students, cheap and expensive housing with some of the best bars, and the city's most popular street folks. Does the Mag Bar Witch still come around? If you live in Old Louisville, you have night vision and amazing defense reflexes.

Beechmont

All of our friends moved here because it's affordable. You used to hang out in the Highlands.

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Bon Air

You understand the benefits of the side street and can navigate like a lab rat looking for cheese.

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Bonnycastle

You’re the Highlands with coffee and a hookah bar. You're probably a student and have roommates or your family has lived in the area since the '60s.

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Buechel

You don’t want to be Newburg or Bashford or J-town. You’re all three. If you lived there, your identity is equally confused.

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Butchertown

Your sense of smell is bad, but your homes are fabulous and it’s a great neighborhood to play in. (See what we did there?)

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California

You are battle-tested and know how to survive. This is a neighborhood that’s lived on the edge for a long time.

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Camp Taylor

You Army brats. OK, maybe you aren’t brats, but you get to live in old barracks or GI homes and pay $3 in rent. We’re jealous.

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Cherokee Triangle

You’re the Highlands with an attitude, mansions, and so many dogs. You really don't like folks in your business but you're in everyone else's.

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Clifton

You’re bougie Highlands with more pork places and Dirty Kroger. You like the vibe of a funky neighborhood without the traffic.

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Crescent Hill

Bougie Clifton, Actual Clifton, and the longest trains in the city. You really like walking and swimming.

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Douglass Loop

You still keep Twig And Leaf in business and get your hot yoga and coffee on the same street.

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Downtown

I guess this means the Business District, because we know that Louisville can’t see past 9th Street. You’re hotels, the Yum! Center, courthouses, and street festivals. You live elsewhere.

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Germantown

You’re new to the neighborhood. Your house was really expensive, and your shit is still getting stolen.

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Hallmark

You’re not a holiday movie, but we thought you were fictional. You’re small and adorable. If you live there, chances are you're hobbit-sized too.

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Highlands

The stomping ground of artists, hippies, stoners, and the folks who want them out of the neighborhood. You’re in a transition and can’t figure out your new identity.

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Hikes Point

You are a nexus of city parts, a neighborhood amidst sprawl with good food joints and the best Big Lots in the city. If you live there, you're probably wearing itchy tights to an office you hate every day.

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Lake Forest

You’re leftover yuppies, but in a Stepford Village kind of way. You probably have made at least one Jell-o mold.

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Norton Commons

The Hollywood movie set of neighborhoods. You may or may not actually be an android. “The Truman Show” in real life. You're looking for temporary home or you use your home just to sleep.

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NuLu

You are the baby brainchild of development and gentrification, and locals think you’re cool. They missed the good years of Velvet Rose Derby parades, though. If you live in Nulu, you are new to Louisville and want folks to know that you're cool.

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