Posted on 09/02/2005 4:14:33 PM PDT by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888
With so many reports and stories over race and demographics in New Orleans, a demographic snapshot is in order to inject some facts into the discussions.
Ineach of the three data points below, the first figure is New Orleans, the second figure is Louisiana, the third figure is the USA average.
GENDER
Pct New Orleans ... Pct Louisanna ... Pct USA
Male 46.9 48.4 49.1
Female 53.1 51.6 50.9
The female to male ratio is higher in NO than both the Louisiana Average and the USA average. (Notice all the single moms in the photos).
AGE 15 or younger
Pct N.O. ... Pct LA ... Pct USA
22.2 22.4 21.4
Age 16-24
15.9 15.5 13.9
Contrary to what many may think after watching the images, NO is actually younger as a city than the national average age.
Age 65 +
Pct N.O.... Pct LA ... Pct USA
11.7 11.6 12.4
Again, fewer old people than national average.
RACE AND ETHNICITY
Pct N.O... Pct LA ... Pct USA
Whites 28.1 63.9 75.1
Black or African American
67.3 32.5 12.3
American Indian and Alaska native
0.2 0.6 0.9
Asian 2.3 1.2 3.6
The 2.3% of Asians in N.O. is roughly 11,000 people in the city proper.
Hispanic or Latino
3.1 2.4 12.5
There are roughly 15,000 Hispanic/Latins in N.O.
Some other race
0.9 0.7 5.5
Education:
Boy, what a surprise here. Check this out:
Bachelor's Degree
Pct N.O ... Pct LA ... Pct USA
15.0 12.2 15.5
Masters, Professional or Doctorate Degree
10.7 6.5 8.9
That's right! N.O has a HIGHER percentage than the national average. Considerign the images shown, this will surprise many.
Median Household Income
Pct N.O. ... Pct LA ... Pct USA
$27,133 $32,566 $41,994
New Orleans is a VERY poor city compared to USA average.
However, .......
Per capita Income Whites
Pct N.O Pct LA Pct USA
$31,971 $20,488 $23,918
The whites in New Orleans have a higher per capita income than the USA average for whites.
Per capita income blacks:
$11,332 $10,166 $14,437
The blacks have a LOWER percapita income than the blacks' average across the USA.
The percapita income for Asians is substantially lower ($13,826) than for the average Asian in the USA ($21,823).
Marital Status:
Wow! The percentage of males who never married in N.O is 43.7 % versus the USA percentage of 30.3%.
Females it is 38.6% versus USA average of 24.1%--they just don't get married much in New Orleans. A high percentage of people on welfare correlates with this fact.
Transportation to Work by Public Transportation:
13.7% for New Orleans versus the USA average of 4.7%.
There are other demographics you can search at this link:
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/incomeCommute.php?locIndex=3502
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Are the missing males presently incarcerated ?
How does this compare with other predominately black communities ?
Funny cause there have only been .000000001 of the nation's blacks on TV.
It sure does. Let's see if these statistics are published in Tyme or Newsweak.
You know, I am waiting for the breakdown of the percentage of people who consider themselves Saints fans or Texan fans or Cowboy fans......
but I do want to know the Truth in matters, and i make up my own mind, and I ask a lot of questions.
No. With the strong front of not seeming racist/PCism, a good many here have been slamming folks for too strong of "chat" if you will. Thought maybe you did'nt like parts of mine... Can't really understand any other reason for your 3 word response...
"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"
My assumption here is that most blacks' bachelors and graduate degrees are on the soft scienes, such as African Studies, Sociology, Psychology, Women's Studies and other assorted liberal arts curricula. You can't make a good living with a degree such as Philosophy.
the financial numbers are shocking to me...
even before all of this... those folks down there weren't doing too well.
Here in Kansas we tend to think of ourselves as poor.
But those numbers are very, very poor.
I hope the reconstruction looks long term to creating decent conditions/jobs in this community. I know that's the least of folks problems right now, they need food and water and shelter...but maybe we could plan ahead to start taking care of our own.
So, sit-rep, are you still afraid about your daughter seeing interracial ads on television?
yawn....
i think that happens when you have numerous colleges in a city.
but trust me, as a grad student in history, some advanced degress are less economically useful to a community....hehe
I think you both will find post #54 and Congressman BillyBob's post # 34 very interesting.
Can you put this on the black ping list?
Also, what are you thoughts on these two posts?
No my man... I do not have to worry about that anymore. She was shocked what she has seen and heard watching segments of TV with us. My wife and I needed not say a word... The culture explained it to her better than I ever could.
Well, you can rewind a few years, go to Iraq, get raped and get your head cut off by a rusty knife.
Just because some in New Orleans are sometimes verticle (when they're not sleeping in the streets). How about the snipers shooting at human beings with their efforts to help other human beings?
If I were there, I would take out any "human being" trying to rape my wife!
Then again, I'm old fashioned.
Yea, there may be more colleges than normal but man, we are talking percentages of the entire city here.
No matter how many colleges there are, that still could not impact the percentages for such a large city. That table is saying that 10% + of the entire city has Masters, Professional or Doctors degrees which is higher than the national average. My opinion is that a larger than normal number of university professors in town or whatever still could not cause that to be 2 % higher than the average.
LOL. Okay, I get your point. I am grateful for the people who are mining this information for us...when arguing with Libs, it is good to have hard facts, because it reduces them in a most entertaining way to sputtering, name calling rage.
They HATE it when you have facts! It reminds me of "Team America" when "Areck Bahlwin" is on stage at the end, stammering: "...but...but...Global Warming...Corporate America...." then we get to see his head explode!
Now, how good is that? Libs are a mile wide and a nanometer deep when it comes to their beliefs. Scratch through the veneer, and there is nothing to hold it up.
CNN, et al just don't get it, do they? (Rhetorical question :)
There is political correctness, which is nothing more than cultural marxism. Then again, there's using the "anti-PC" shield to mask the questionable tactic of attributing negative comments towards an entirety of a group which is really based on a subset of that group.
Both of these stink.
"Hispanic ethnicity is a separate data category from race"
Simple - That is because hispanic is NOT a race. Only Jimmy (da commie bastard) Carter thought it made for another good "minority" to split up America to make it easier for communism to take over.
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