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Old Aurora Neighborhood Snapshot

Census 2000 Data Tables: People & Household Characteristics, Housing & Housing Costs, Income & Poverty, Transportation, Employment, Educational Attainment, Immigration & Language, Disabilities, Neighborhood Characteristics

With an average household income around $56,000, Old Aurora is a prosperous West bank community (Census 2000). The neighborhood has organized several civic groups, and residents love the abundant park space – particularly the extensive levee access along Patterson Drive.

Sampling of community organizations, health care and educational institutions

Old Aurora’s subdivisions, such as Walnut Bend and Huntlee Village, are the site of several active civic associations and a neighborhood watch program.

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	Aurora Riverside subdivision sign

Civic associations on the West Bank
www.algiers.org/civic-orgs.htm

Walnut Bend Civic Association’s web site
algiers.org/walnutbend/

The Jo Ellen Smith Medical Center provides services to residents on the West bank. The hyperbaric unit at this full-service facility is a world leader in HBO saturation treatments. Offshore divers are regularly treated here and scuba divers from around the world take advantage of the care provided at the Jo Ellen Smith Medical Center.

Diver Down - a True Adventure Article: Mike Wade
www.deeperblue.net/article.php/77/19

The Little Sisters of the Poor run the Mary Joseph Residence for the Elderly in Old Aurora – a nonprofit organization serving retired religious and lay Catholics. Old Aurora is home to these two outstanding educational institutions: The Edna Karr Magnet School – ranked among the top public schools in Louisiana based on students’ performance in math and reading; and Our Lady of Holy Cross College, the only four year college on the West Bank of New Orleans.


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Holy Cross College

The Marianites of Holy Cross, a group of French women religious, founded Our Lady of Holy Cross College in 1916 (then called the Holy Cross Normal College) to train teachers for the several schools they had established around Louisiana. In 1960, the college was relocated to the West bank and given its current name. In 1967, the school opened admissions to male students for the first time. In 1983 it initiated a four-year degree program in nursing and in 1984 began offering a Master of Education program. In recent years, the college has increased its fundraising, improved its physical facility and doubled its enrollment.

The Village Aurora Shopping Center offers products and services to the community including a News N' Brews coffee shop and several other national chain stores and an Entergy Customer Care Center. And in Woodland Park, the Parkway Partners’ plant and maintain trees in memory of the community’s loved ones.

For more information:

Edna Karr Magnet School’s ranking
www.digitalcity.com/neworleans/public_schools/?page=high&state=la

Our Lady of Holy Cross College
www.olhcc.edu

Entergy's Customer Care Center
209.130.119.229/howdoi.htm

Parkway Partners’ website
www.parkwaypartners.com

Little Sisters of the Poor
www.oldstpatricks.org/x_littlesister.htm

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Last modified: October 8, 2002