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Desire Area Neighborhood: Transportation

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Vehicles available (2000)
 Desire Area
 Orleans Parish
Louisiana
United
States
Total occupied housing units
1,398
188,251
1,656,053
105,480,101
  No vehicle available
40.8%
27.3%
11.9%
10.3%
  1 vehicle available
40.2%
42.3%
37.0%
34.2%
  2 vehicles available
13.9%
24.2%
38.0%
38.4%
  3 or more vehicles available
5.1%
6.2%
13.1%
17.1%

Source Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Census 2000 Sample Characteristics (SF3). From a compilation by the GNO Community Data Center. <http://www.gnocdc.org>

Travel to work

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Type of transportation (2000)
 Desire Area
 Orleans Parish
Louisiana
United
States
Total workers 16 years and over
  1,148
  188,703
  1,831,057
  128,279,228
  Public bus
24.2%
12.4%
2.1%
2.5%
  Streetcar
0.0%
0.6%
0.1%
0.1%
  Taxicab
0.3%
0.5%
0.2%
0.2%
  Ferryboat
0.0%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
  Other Public transportation
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2.0%
  Car, truck or van
65.9%
76.3%
91.7%
87.8%
  Bicycle
0.0%
1.2%
0.4%
0.4%
  Walked
4.9%
5.2%
2.2%
2.9%
  Other, incl motorcyle
2.4%
0.9%
1.2%
0.8%
Transportation time to work (2000)
 Desire Area
 Orleans Parish
Louisiana
United
States
Total workers 16 years and over who used public transportation to travel to work
282
25,803
43,277
6,067,703
  Less than 30 minutes
9.9%
28.2%
32.7%
23.0%
  30 to 44 minutes
23.4%
31.0%
26.7%
26.0%
  45 to 59 minutes
40.1%
17.3%
15.6%
17.3%
  60 or more minutes
26.6%
23.5%
25.0%
33.7%
Total workers 16 years and over who used private transportation to travel to work
840
157,872
1,748,451
118,027,302
  Less than 30 minutes
68.0%
72.7%
68.5%
67.7%
  30 to 44 minutes
20.6%
18.5%
17.8%
18.7%
  45 to 59 minutes
5.2%
4.3%
6.5%
6.9%
  60 or more minutes
6.2%
4.5%
7.2%
6.7%
Source Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Census 2000 Sample Characteristics (SF3). From a compilation by the GNO Community Data Center. <http://www.gnocdc.org>

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