Jun 28, 2012
This brief examines 2008–2010 ACS data for Southeast Louisiana, including the New Orleans metro and Houma–Thibodaux metro. Included is a data visualization with detailed poverty rates for 13 parishes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Resilience and Opportunity, published by Brookings Institution Press, builds on the author essays from The New Orleans Index at Five collection, which reported about important post–Katrina reform efforts, with additional reforms from Mississippi.
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