Published: Oct 28, 2011
This map book goes along with Housing Development and Abandonment in New Orleans since 1960, which provides a historical perspective of the city’s development and an analysis of recent demographic trends crucial to informing city housing policy and blight reduction strategies. The first six maps illustrate the growth of households in exurban and suburban parishes in the New Orleans metro over the last fifty years. The last four maps reveal that New Orleans’ household population has declined as well as spread out toward suburban areas within city limits, causing a “hollowing out” of neighborhoods in New Orleans’ historic core.
This brief examines 2010 census data for New Orleans’ neighborhoods and the metro area, and identifies changes from past decades. Included are data on households with elderly and children, single person households by age, vacant units by type of vacancy, renter–occupied and owner–occupied units, and households by race and ethnicity.
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