LATEST REPORT


Since Hurricane Katrina struck the New Orleans region in August 2005, GCR has played an active role in quantifying and analyzing the storm’s impact as well as the region’s recovery. One of our most important endeavors is tracking the recovery of Orleans Parish through a variety of indicators and determining the degree to which the city’s population has returned. Periodically, we publish population estimates to help the public better understand the pace at which residents have returned to various neighborhoods.

GCR is eager to support the recovery by providing unique, accurate, and meaningful data to our leaders as well as our clients.

We have a full suite of demographic and GIS services to support the strategic needs of public, non-profit, and private clients. For more information, please contact Greg Rigamer.

GCR’s latest population estimate for New Orleans is 288,000, or approximately 63% of its pre-Katrina population. The city continues to repopulate steadily; in fact, the months between July and October, during which New Orleans grew by 14,500 residents, saw a slight increase in the pace of resettlement. Analysis of this latest estimate, an overview of repopulation patterns throughout the city, and an updated on the population of the metropolitan area are available for review in the PowerPoint presentation below.

Above is a map of New Orleans.
Blocks shaded red have less than 20% of their pre-storm population.
Blocks shaded green have greater than 80% of their pre-storm population.
The boundaries of New Orleans City Council Districts are also included.

To see a detailed report of the latest population estimates
published by GCR:

Powerpoint slideshow
Acrobat (PDF) version