Economic Ties across Southeast Louisiana

How many workers commute between the New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Houma-Thibodaux metro? What is a super region? This report uses 2010 Local Employment Dynamics data from the Census Bureau to examine where workers live and work across Southeast Louisiana.

Building an Inclusive, High–Skilled Workforce

How does the New Orleans regional workforce stack up in the New Economy? And how can we leverage our diverse workforce to take advantage of new economic opportunities? This report examines 2010 census data, ACS data, and other data sets to answer these questions. Included are population projections by race/ethnicity and age through 2030.

Regional “Export” Industries

This brief examines employment in the region and the “export” industries that drive economic growth. Featuring a podcast interview with Dr. Allison Plyer and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

Economic Timeline

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

Coastal Employment

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.

How will the aging of the baby boomers affect housing demand? And how can we leverage this demographic shift to increase our population and reduce blight? This report examines 2010 census data, ACS data, and other data sets to answer these questions.

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.

Average Household Size and Group Quarters

This brief examines 2010 census data for New Orleans’ neighborhoods and the metro area, and identifies changes from past decades. Included are data on average household size and populations in nursing homes, adult correctional facilities, juvenile facilities, military barracks, college housing, and other group quarters.

Want less blight? Create more jobs.

How has job growth impacted population and vacant housing in the New Orleans metro? This brief, entitled Fewer jobs mean fewer people and more vacant housing, examines what New Orleans can do to attract population and reduce blight.

Population Loss and Vacant Housing in New Orleans Neighborhoods

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

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

Benchmarks for Blight

Over the last year, New Orleans has dramatically reduced the level of blight in the city. This is in contrast to many cities around the country where blight is growing or has declined only slightly.

Job Sprawl in Metro New Orleans

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

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

Housing Production Needs

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.

Housing Affordability in the New Orleans Metro

In 2008, homeowners in New Orleans were more likely to face unaffordable housing costs than homeowners nationwide. And renters across the entire metro area faced a housing affordability crisis more severe than the nation.

ZIP Code Population Indicators

Data on households actively receiving mail by ZIP code provides insight into the rate of population change in the 7–parish area. Plus, information about various sources of postal data.

Who Lives in New Orleans and the Metro Area Now?

This brief examines 2010 ACS data for Orleans, Jefferson, St. Tammany, and the metro area, and identifies significant changes since 2000. Included are data on poverty, income, educational attainment, access to vehicles, the foreign born population, and homeowners without a mortgage.

Homeownership, Household Makeup, and Latino and Vietnamese Population Growth in the New Orleans Metro

This brief examines 2010 census data for all parishes in the New Orleans metro and identifies changes from past decades. Included are data on homeownership rate, household makeup, and the Latino and Vietnamese populations.

Shifts in Population and Loss of Children across the New Orleans Metro Area

This brief examines 2010 census data for all of the cities, towns and parishes in the New Orleans Metro Area and identifies changes from past decades. Included are total population counts and child population counts.

The Loss of Children from New Orleans Neighborhoods

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.

What Census 2010 Reveals about Population and Housing in New Orleans and the Metro Area

This brief examines 2010 census data for New Orleans and the metro area, and identifies changes from past decades. Included are data on total population, age, race/ethnicity, number of housing units and occupancy status.

Total Population by Parish

Census population counts (1980–2010) and latest estimates (2011) for each of the 7 parishes in the New Orleans metro area.

Pre-Katrina Data Center Web Site

Pre-storm data and background info on all 73 New Orleans neighborhoods, plus our articles, demographic maps, and data for the 10-parish area.