Terrytown
Terrytown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Terrytown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is on the "Westbank" of the Mississippi River. It is a suburb within the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner metropolitan statistical area. The population was 23,319 at the 2010 census, and 25,278 in 2020.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Terrytown
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Brechtel Park
Park in Louisiana, United States of America, United States of America
1.7 km · Wikipedia - 02
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Terrytown
- Airports
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans (MSY), 25 km · Pensacola (PNS), 280 km
- Pensacola → Terrytown277 km · quickest by road, 4h 49m · $27–37
- Houston → Terrytown514 km · quickest by air, 5h 15m · $210–310
- Birmingham → Terrytown7297 km · quickest by air, 16h 43m · £960–1,470
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Terrytown
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Terrytown. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom the French Quarter or Central Business District, take the Ferry across the river from the foot of Canal Street.
- Get inBear in mind that the ferry does not run all night (hours at nolaferry.com) departing from the CBD side on the :15 and :45, and departing from the Algiers side on the hour and half hour.
- Go nextThe ferry at Algiers Point connects to the foot of Canal Street, the boundary of the French Quarter and the Central Business District.
From Wikivoyage: New Orleans/Algiers, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Terrytown
Terrytown is 7 km from New Orleans, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Gretnasecond-largest city in, and parish seat of, Jefferson Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana2.9 km
- Timberlanehuman settlement in Louisiana, United States of America2.4 km
- Algierscommunity within the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States4 km
- Jefferson Parish Public Schoolsschool district in Louisiana, United States3.8 km
- 12th Ward of New Orleansward of New Orleans3 km
- 16th Ward of New Orleansward of New Orleans2.7 km