Demographic Breakdown of New Orleans

ePodunk.com ^ | 9/2/05

[geopyg]

Transportation to Work by Public Transportation:

13.7% for New Orleans versus the USA average of 4.7%.

well - there's an interesting one. Especially when their evacuation plan calls to "find a ride with a friend". I would imagine that at many places close in to the city they don't need cars (especially lower-income areas).

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

It is amazing what FACTS do for a discussion when there is so much opinion floating around.

[sit-rep]

Well, I seen 99.9% black NO criminals on TV....I seen 99.5% Blacks in NO refugee camps. I see 99.5% of vocal Blacks on NO bashing bush. I see .05% of the nations black condeming the behavior...

Sum of the equation? ...another 100 years of racism....

[ncpatriot]

May be, but I want to know.

[countess]

FACT: 100% of New Orleans residents are human beings.

[minus_273]

NEW ORLEANS				LA		US
MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME BY AGE ($ IN 1999)
		Number		Number		Number
Median household income		27,133		32,566		41,994
Householder under 25		11,730		16,905		22,679
Householder 25-34		26,452		33,155		41,414
Householder 35-44		31,401		40,067		50,654
Householder 45-54		36,269		44,885		56,300
Householder 55-64		30,647		35,724		47,447
Householder 65-74		22,450		24,566		31,368
Householder 75 and older		20,028		17,681		22,259
PER CAPITA INCOME BY RACE OR ETHNICITY ($)
		Number		Number		Number
Per capita income		17,258		16,912		21,587
White		31,971		20,488		23,918
Black or African American		11,332		10,166		14,437
Native American		13,528		12,908		12,893
Asian		13,826		16,304		21,823
Native Hawaiian and Pacific islander		18,153		14,975		15,054
Some other race		13,543		13,759		10,813
Two or more races		14,321		12,741		13,405
Hispanic or Latino		16,151		15,105		12,111
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 Census; ePodunk

[buwaya]

The stated demographic statistics don't tell the whole story, far from it. The portion of the population that fled (3/4ths seem to have fled pre-hurricane) was most likely disproportionately white and wealthier than those who remained, so the remnant population in NO when it flooded was much more black and poor than the census figures.

The weird breakdown of rich whites/high rate of college degrees vs poor blacks is a characteristic of many cities, like New York or even San Francisco for instance. These urban areas often have a pretty intense class split, compared to the suburbs, which tend to be more even.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

True, but if you uhad a good mayor, of which Mayor Nagin is not in that category, when President Bush ordered the evacuation of New Orleans BEFORE the storm hit, Nagin should have ordered all public transportation busses to evacuate the city.

Looking at all this data and hearing the BS from Nagin, it seems to me that with such a high percentage of people using public transportation, those busses could have evacuated most of those people.

I think Nagin exploded with that outburst becaus he knows he could have done far more to prevent this catastrophe and he shifted into "cover my ass" mode.

[minus_273]

take a look at the income stats i posted, look at whites asians and latinos and then look at blacks. i have no explanation for that, but it is startling. you can't blame somthign like that on racism

[Rightly Biased]

Then do some research

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

Did you see my post #17?

[rdb3]

What percentage are Democrats vs Republicans?

Why do you ask?

[Rightly Biased]

I get so tired of this stuff.....................

not you rdb3

BTW hows the leg.

[Congressman Billybob]

Thank you for posting this. From the number of "residents under the age of 16" one can derive an idea of how many school children there are. And THAT data allows a conclusion that the NO school buses that sat there and got flooded were enough to evacuate all the people left in NO.

I reached that conclusion from two facts: about 100,000 children depended on the buses, and school buses carry everyone at one time, not multiple trips. Second, there are about 100,000 people left in New Orleans. Therefore, the buses would have been sufficient for everyone.

But that only could have happened if the Mayor had gotten his head out of his *ss and used the 24 hours after he belatedly ordered an evacuation, to order drivers to bring the buses to high ground, and all residents to meet the buses there.

The New Orleans press would have reported the gathering of the buses would have sent an inescapable message, which would have been, "Hump yourself and your family to the Dome, and GET ON THE BUS if you want to live."

The Mayor is at worst an incompetent buffoon, at best a criminal. Yet given the behavior of some of his Looter/Voters, he does properly represent his constituents.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Tide of Lies Swamps NY Times: Employees Riot and Steal Office Supplies"

[Tall_Texan]

What New Orleans really needs is a big dyke. So where's Rosie O'Donnell??

[Diva Betsy Ross]

How is it so relevant?

[minus_273]

lets compare these income demographics to a Boston,MA

BOSTON				MA		US
MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME BY AGE ($ IN 1999)
		Number		Number		Number
Median household income		39,629		50,502		41,994
Householder under 25		22,945		27,364		22,679
Householder 25-34		48,399		51,855		41,414
Householder 35-44		45,499		61,304		50,654
Householder 45-54		49,132		67,287		56,300
Householder 55-64		40,595		56,699		47,447
Householder 65-74		24,396		33,589		31,368
Householder 75 and older		17,823		21,522		22,259
PER CAPITA INCOME BY RACE OR ETHNICITY ($)
		Number		Number		Number
Per capita income		23,353		25,952		21,587
White		30,992		27,808		23,918
Black or African American		14,926		16,011		14,437
Native American		12,886		15,889		12,893
Asian		15,513		21,452		21,823
Native Hawaiian and Pacific islander		9,850		16,948		15,054
Some other race		10,956		10,675		10,813
Two or more races		14,137		14,661		13,405
Hispanic or Latino		11,931		11,963		12,111
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 Census; ePodunk

[SE Mom]

Another question is why did so many whites (over 135,000) evacuate and so many blacks did not evacuate.

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I'd like to hear your answer to this? Care to speculate?

[Cacique]

A lot of worthless information except for the income statistics. Rioting is a function of class more than it is a finction of ethnicity. People mired in the culture of poverty are more apt to riot than others. Riots exist in all countries and cultures when the social order breaks down. If you look at rioting in countries that are homogenpous you will find that it is the poor that riot or the lowest class. These are usually the people with less education and economic resources at their disposal. Middle class whites in America don't understand such factors because they have no clue. If you were living in a favella in rio de janeiro or a villa Miseria in Buenos Aires, you would riot too, if given the chance. Disasters and the breakdown of authority are too often an opportunity for the lowest class to vent their frustration at the world. Read a bit of history and you will see that race an rioting have nothing to do with each other, but class and education (the lack of it) is a common denominator.