All Reports & Analysis

The Loss of Children from New Orleans Neighborhoods

Feb 10, 2011

This brief examines 2010 census data for New Orleans neighborhoods and identifies changes from past decades. Included are total population counts, child population counts, percent of total population that are children and child population density.

Population Loss and Vacant Housing in New Orleans Neighborhoods

Feb 05, 2011

This brief examines 2010 census data for New Orleans’ neighborhoods. Included are data on total population, housing units and vacant housing units.

Optimizing Blight Strategies: Deploying limited resources in different neighborhood housing markets

Nov 30, 2010

How strong is your neighborhood's housing market? And how can limited resources be used to maximize blight reduction across New Orleans?

Economic Timeline: Selected Historical Events that Shaped the New Orleans Economy, 1700–2010

Aug 04, 2010

Historical events that shaped the New Orleans Economy from 1700–2010.

Coastal Employment before the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster: Employment Maps and Data from 2008

Jul 20, 2010

This brief describes employment in coastal Louisiana two years prior to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. The jobs data within this brief serves as a baseline against which future impacts of the oil disaster may be compared.

Job Sprawl in Metro New Orleans

Jul 13, 2010

2008 data on the location and density of jobs and workers by income level and industry with implications for the location of workforce housing.

Post–Katrina Commuter Patterns: Based on 2008 Local Employment Dynamics data from the U.S. Census Bureau

Jan 15, 2010

2008 data on where workers live compared to where they work by low, moderate and high–wage levels.

Housing Production Needs: Three Scenarios for New Orleans

Nov 12, 2009

How much more housing and of what type does New Orleans need? And what do you do when market rate vacancies are rising but many people still cannot afford housing?

Prevalent wages and affordable rents

This one-page fact sheet shows the number of workers in the New Orleans area by income range and affordable rent for various occupations making less than $35,000 a year.

Post–Katrina housing affordability challenges continue in 2008, worsening among Orleans Parish very low income renters: Based on 2004, 2007 and 2008 American Community Survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau