As of January 2007 New Orleans Online
Population. .
Parishes Pre-Katrina 1-Jul-06 1-Jan-07
Orleans 484,674 235,000 255,000
Jefferson 455,466 450,000 500,000
Plaquemines 26,757 22,000 25,000
St. Bernard 67,229 19,000 20,000
St. Charles 48,072 55,000 60,000
St. John the
Baptist 43,044 49,000 55,000
St.
Tammany 191,268 235,000 240,000
Tangipahoa 100,588 112,000 115,000
Metro Area 1,417,098 1,177,000 1,270,000
Hospitals. Pre-Katrina there were 17 general acute care hospitals in operation in the metro area. Currently there are 11.
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There were 22 homicides in July 2006, the same as the monthly average for the city from 2002 until Hurricane Katrina, when the population was much higher.[30] There were 161 homicides in 2006.
As of February 12, there were at least 21 homicides in 2007. [7] On Thursday, January 11, 2007, several thousand New Orleans residents marched through city streets and gathered at City Hall for a rally demanding police and city leaders tackle the crime problem. Mayor Ray Nagin said he was "totally and solely focused" on attacking the problem. The city of New Orleans implemented checkpoints starting in early January 2007 from the hours of 2 a.m and 6 a.m. in high crime areas and to date, January 20, 2007, they have netted over 60 arrest and issued more than 100 citations
New Orleans Public Schools, the city's school district, was one of the area's largest school districts before Hurricane Katrina. It was widely recognized as the lowest performing school district in Louisiana. According to researchers Carl L. Bankston and Stephen J. Caldas, only 12 of the 103 school districts in New Orleans showed reasonably good performance at the beginning of the twenty-first century.[32] Following Hurricane Katrina, the state of Louisiana took over most of the schools within the system (all schools that fell into a nominal "worst-performing" metric); about 20 new charter schools have also been started since the storm, educating about 15,000 students. The total number of student enrollment in New Orleans is estimated to be between 28,000 to 30,000. The Recovery School District has come under fire recently for not having enough schools ready for returning students as 300 students had to be put on waiting list because they couldn't keep up with the high demand. Most Recovery District officials claim that the rate of evacuees returning are much higher than orginally thought so the supply couldn't keep up with the demand. Recovery District officials announced that by the fall semester of 2007 and the spring semester of 2008 enough schools should be open to handle 48,000 students, a gradual increase of the returning displaced population.
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Think Progress as of August 28, 2006
– Sixty-six percent of public schools have reopened.
– A 40 percent hike in rental rates, disproportionately affecting black and low-income families.
– A 300 percent increase in the suicide rate.
Eighty-four percent of New Orleans residents rate the government’s recovery efforts negatively, while 66 percent believe the recovery money has been “mostly wasted.”
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