Update on New Orleans: Are Good Times Rolling Again?
One of the biggest parties in the world is happening right now, Mardi Gras, in one of our very favorite cities in the U.S.: New Orleans. We decided to check how the city is doing almost 10 years after Katrina and 5 years after the worst oil spill in U.S. history. We talked to the Convention and Visitors Bureau, ISES NOLA and Event Pros Take Action and their local partner, St. Bernard Project. We contacted The Data Center, an organization that tracks economic and population statistics in Louisiana and publishes The New Orleans Index. New Orleans Population decrease. The population of New Orleans fell from 484,674 before Katrina (April 2000) to an estimated 230,172 after Katrina (July 2006) — a decrease of 254,502 people and a loss of over half of the city’s population. By July of 2012, the population was back up to 369,250 — 76% of what it was in 2000. Source: The Data Center, August 28, 2014 The Data Center examined economic factors, population inclusion aspects acro...