Neighborhoods in Providence, Rhode Island

The city of Providence, Rhode Island has 25 official neighborhoods.

Map of Providence neighborhoods

• Blackstone
• Charles
• College Hill
• Downtown
• Elmhurst
• Elmwood
• Federal Hill
• Fox Point
• Hartford
• Hope (Summit)
• Lower South Providence
• Manton
• Mount Hope
• Mount Pleasant
• Olneyville
• Reservoir
• Silver Lake
• Smith Hill
• South Elmwood
• Upper South Providence
• Valley
• Wanskuck
• Washington Park
• Wayland
• West End

Regions

Many of these neighborhoods are often grouped together referred to collectively:

• East Side – Blackstone, Hope, Mount Hope, College Hill, Wayland, and Fox Point.
• North End – Charles, Wanskuck, Smith Hill, Elmhurst, and Mount Pleasant.
• South Side or South Providence – Elmwood, Lower South Providence, Upper South Providence, West End, and Washington Park.

The Alpert Medical School is based in a former Jewelry factory in the Jewelry District

The Jewelry District occupies the southern portion of Downtown Providence. Since the area was re-united with Downtown following the relocation of Interstate 195, the city has been working to attract high-tech and research companies to this area under the rebranded name of "Knowledge District." This area is not recognized as one of Providence's 25 official neighborhoods. The Hospital District, a non-residential area within Upper South Providence is similarly unrecognized.

The oldest, highest density neighborhoods are either those close to Downtown or proximate to the Woonasquatucket River, which provided a power source for early industrialization in Manton, Hartford, and Olneyville. More distant neighborhoods developed later, mostly as transportation as public horse car and streetcar lines were added.

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  College Hill, on Providence's East Side overlooks Downtown
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  Smith Hill forms one of the neighborhoods on Providence's North End
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  Elmwood is part of Providence's South Side

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