Without more information it's difficult to be sure. It sounds like a nominal data item. As an example, in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, residential area could be coded with the names that include:
Westdale
West Hamilton
Durand
Buchanan
Kirkendall South
Balfour
and so on. Unless a series of residential areas are ordered along a lakefront or seafront or some other two-dimensional feature they cannot form an ordinal scale. If they are spread over a two-dimensional area they cannot be put in what is called a mathematical linear ordering which is what is required for an ordinal scale.
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Ordinal. Though more likely interval or even ratio scale.
They are nominal.
No, it is nominal.
It is ordinal.
interval