Buckhead is an affluent district of
Atlanta,
Fulton County,
Georgia, comprising approximately the northern fifth of the city. Buckhead is a major commercial and financial center of the
Southeast, and it is the third-largest business district in Atlanta, behind
Downtown and
Midtown. The district's
highrise office buildings, hotels, and condominiums form a highly urbanized core along
Peachtree Road. Surrounding this dense core are Buckhead's suburban neighborhoods, which feature large single-family homes situated among dense forests and rolling hills.