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This information is pre-Katrina. Although the information linked from this page is out-of-date, we are continuing to make it available, as it provides insight about this neighborhood pre-Katrina. For current data about New Orleans and its neighborhoods, visit our homepage.

Florida Area Neighborhood

“The Florida neighborhood has great significance in civil rights history because it was here in 1960 that Ruby Bridges, a 6-year-old African American child attended a “whites only” elementary school escorted by federal marshals in order to enforce the country’s new integration laws. Today approximately 98% of the residents in the Florida neighborhood are African American. Primarily working class, almost 60% of the residents own the homes in which they live (Census 2000). ” [Read more in the Neighborhood Snapshot]

Street map with links to nearby neighborhoods:

[ Census tract and zip code boundary maps ]

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

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