Metairie, Louisiana. City and Business guide.

Welcome to Metairie, Louisiana.

Metairie is an unincorporated, census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. The 17th Street Canal forms the border between Metairie and New Orleans to the east. The population was 146,136 at the 2000 census. Metairie is the largest unincorporated community in the Greater New Orleans Metropolitan area.

The name comes from a French language term for a tenant farm which paid the landlord with a share of the produce (sharecropping), as this was the main activity of the area in the early 19th century.

Veterans Boulevard, Metairie, Louisiana. View towards the lake from roof of Lowe's. Photo by Infrogmation.
Metairie is a large unincorporated area which surrounds Harahan on three sides. Though once mostly residential, the area has built up a healthy business center in recent years. One of it's claims to fame is the longest bridge over water in the world, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway.

The Causeway connects Metairie with St. Tammany Parish on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Technically, Lake Pontchartrain is not a lake at all, but an estuary with a large salt-water content. It has 610 square miles and is joined with the Mississippi Sound. It is the largest inland estuary in the United States.

The Lake is a popular birdwatching area with places set aside for the fans to watch the birds. The Purple Martins fly in huge formations during the summer months, peaking during July.

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Metairie's public schools are operated by the Jefferson Parish Public School System. There are two public high schools that are in Metairie: East Jefferson High School Alfred T. Bonnabal High School and Grace King High School.

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