neighborhood vs community

neighborhood and community both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
neighborhood	Yes	No	No	No
community	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, community is a hypernym of neighborhood; that is, community is a word with a broader meaning than neighborhood:

neighborhood (noun)	community (noun)
people living near one another	a group of people living in a particular local area
a surrounding or nearby region	(ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)	a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common
the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')	a group of nations having common interests
	a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
	common ownership
	agreement as to goals