New Orleans, LA
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None of the households in New Orleans, LA reported speaking a non-English language at home as their primary shared language. This does not consider the potential multi-lingual nature of households, but only the primary self-reported language spoken by all members of the household.
Most people in New Orleans, LA drove alone to work, and the average commute time was 22.7 minutes. The average car ownership in New Orleans, LA was 2 cars per household.
The economy of New Orleans, LA employs N/A people. The largest industries in New Orleans, LA are Health Care & Social Assistance (25,647 people), Educational Services (24,939 people), and Accommodation & Food Services (18,936 people), and the highest paying industries are Mining, Quarrying, & Oil & Gas Extraction ($133,071), Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting, & Mining ($113,083), and Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services ($77,238).
The most common job groups, by number of people living in New Orleans, LA, are Management Occupations (21,453 people), Office & Administrative Support Occupations (16,564 people), and Sales & Related Occupations (14,780 people). This chart illustrates the share breakdown of the primary jobs held by residents of New Orleans, LA.
This chart shows weekly unemployment insurance claims in Louisiana (not-seasonally adjusted) compared with the four states with the most similar impact.
The most recent data point uses Advance State Claims data, which can be revised in subsequent weeks.
The most common employment sectors for those who live in New Orleans, LA, are Health Care & Social Assistance (25,647 people), Educational Services (24,939 people), and Accommodation & Food Services (18,936 people). This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of New Orleans, LA, though some of these residents may live in New Orleans, LA and work somewhere else. Census data is tagged to a residential address, not a work address.
As of N/A N/A, there are N/A people employed in N/A. This represents a N/A% N/A in employment when compared to N/A N/A.
Right after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, during N/A, a general dip can be seen across industry sectors, resulting in an overall N/A in employment by N/A%.
The following chart shows monthly employment numbers for each industry sector in N/A.
Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy are the senators currently representing the state of Louisiana. In the United States, senators are elected to 6-year terms with the terms for individual senators staggered.
Louisiana is currently represented by 6 members in the U.S. house, and members of the House of Representives are elected to 2-year terms.
Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy are the senators currently representing Louisiana.
In the United States, senators are elected to 6-year terms with the terms for individual senators staggered.
The following chart shows elected senators in Louisiana over time, excluding special elections, colored by their political party.
Louisiana is currently represented by 6 members in the U.S. house.
Members of the House of Representives are elected to 2-year terms, and the following chart shows the how the members for Louisiana have changed over time starting in 2008.
In 2022, universities in New Orleans, LA awarded 13,714 degrees. The student population of New Orleans, LA in 2022 is skewed towards women, with 19,327 male students and 32,994 female students.
The graph shows the evolution of awarded degrees by degrees. Under the paragraphs, the average number of awarded degrees by university in each degree is shown.
In N/A, N/A% of men over 25 years of age had not completed any academic degree (no schooling), while N/A% of women were in the same situation.
This visualization shows the gender distribution of the population according to the academic level reached.
The most common educational levels obtained by the working population in false were N/A.
This visualization illustrates the percentage distribution of the population according to the highest educational level reached. You can filter the data by race by using the selector above.
People in New Orleans, LA have an average commute time of 22.7 minutes, and they drove alone to work. Car ownership in New Orleans, LA is approximately the same as the national average, with an average of 2 cars per household.
The following map shows all of the places in New Orleans, LA colored by their Median Household Income (N/A).
The following chart displays the households in New Orleans, LA distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the N/A range.
In N/A, the income inequality in N/A was N/A according to the GINI calculation of the wage distribution. Income inequality had a N/A N/A from N/A to N/A, which means that wage distribution grew somewhat N/A even. The GINI for N/A was N/A than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed N/A evenly in N/A in comparison to the national average.
This chart shows the number of workers in New Orleans, LA across various wage buckets compared to the national average.
In 2023, 63.2% of workers in New Orleans, LA drove alone to work, followed by those who worked at home (13.7%) and those who carpooled to work (8.73%).
The following chart shows the number of households using each mode of transportation over time, using a logarithmic scale on the y-axis to help better show variations in the smaller means of commuting.
Using averages, employees in New Orleans, LA have a shorter commute time (22.7 minutes) than the normal US worker (26.6 minutes). Additionally, 1.73% of the workforce in New Orleans, LA have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes.
The chart below shows how the median household income in New Orleans, LA compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
The following chart displays the households in New Orleans, LA distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in New Orleans, LA have 2 cars.
N/A% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in New Orleans, LA (N/A out of N/A people) live below the poverty line, a number that is approximately the same as the national average of 12.4%. The largest demographic living in poverty are N/A N/A, followed by N/A N/A and then N/A N/A.
The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in New Orleans, LA is Black, followed by White and Hispanic.
The Census Bureau uses a set of money income thresholds that vary by family size and composition to determine who classifies as impoverished. If a family's total income is less than the family's threshold than that family and every individual in it is considered to be living in poverty.
N/A% of the population of New Orleans, LA has health coverage, with N/A% on employee plans, N/A% on Medicaid, N/A% on Medicare, N/A% on non-group plans, and N/A% on military or VA plans.
In N/A, insured persons according to age ranges were distributed in .
By gender, of the total number of insured persons, N/A were men and N/A were women.
The following chart shows the number of people with health coverage by gender.
The following chart shows how the percent of uninsured individuals in New Orleans, LA changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance.
