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Number of people in prison in 2022 from each New Orleans neighborhood

New Orleans neighborhoods Number of people in state prison from each New Orleans neighborhood, 2022 Census population, 2020 Total population, 2020 Imprisonment rate per 100,000
Algiers Naval Station 16 2,070 2,086 767
Algiers Point 6 2,289 2,295 261
Algiers Whitney 20 2,149 2,169 922
Audubon-University 5 17,054 17,059 29
Aurora-Walnut Bend-Huntlee 53 15,480 15,533 341
B.W. Cooper / Marreo Commons 35 1,399 1,434 2,441
Bayou St. John 24 3,583 3,607 665
Behrman 99 7,928 8,027 1,233
Black Pearl 4 1,866 1,870 214
Broadmoor 33 6,039 6,072 543
Bywater 23 3,563 3,586 641
Central Business District 33 4,351 4,384 753
Central City-Magnolia 182 14,077 14,259 1,276
City Park 4 2,719 2,723 147
Desire Area 34 2,989 3,023 1,125
Dillard 27 5,413 5,440 496
Dixon 17 1,397 1,414 1,202
East Carrollton 6 4,041 4,047 148
East Riverside 15 2,601 2,616 573
Edgelake-Little Woods 253 36,449 36,702 689
Fairgrounds-Broad 36 5,343 5,379 669
Filmore 17 5,961 5,978 284
Fischer Housing Dev 23 1,045 1,068 2,154
Florida Area 25 1,689 1,714 1,459
Florida Housing Dev 9 160 169 5,325
Freret 6 1,643 1,649 364
Garden District 2 1,877 1,879 106
Gentilly Terrace 55 8,727 8,782 626
Gentilly Woods 17 3,206 3,223 527
Gert Town-Zion City 39 4,247 4,286 910
Hollygrove 63 5,188 5,251 1,200
Holy Cross 33 3,612 3,645 905
Iberville Housing Development 19 1,122 1,141 1,665
Irish Channel 20 3,104 3,124 640
Lake Catherine 3 887 890 337
Lake Terrace-Lake Oaks 3 3,609 3,612 83
Lakeshore-Lake Vista 2 3,730 3,732 54
Lakeview 5 9,751 9,756 51
Lakewood 2 1,894 1,896 105
Lakewood-West End 5 4,635 4,640 108
Leonidas-West Carrollton 62 7,442 7,504 826
Lower Ninth Ward 74 4,982 5,056 1,464
Marigny 4 2,469 2,473 162
Marlyville-Fontainebleau 13 6,133 6,146 212
McDonogh 35 2,410 2,445 1,431
Mid-City 74 14,358 14,386 514
Milan 68 5,551 5,619 1,210
Milneburg 35 4,233 4,268 820
Navarre 2 2,846 2,848 70
Pines Village 49 4,258 4,307 1,138
Plum Orchard 37 5,390 5,427 682
Pontchartrain Park 6 2,103 2,109 285
Read Blvd East 33 7,683 7,716 428
Read Blvd West 38 4,694 4,732 803
River Park-Cut Off-Algiers Lower Coast 29 5,295 5,324 545
Seventh Ward 131 10,909 11,040 1,187
Sixth Ward-Treme-Lafitte 54 5,748 5,802 931
St. Anthony 22 4,642 4,664 472
St. Bernard Area Housing Development 24 2,732 2,756 871
St. Claude 85 7,491 7,576 1,122
St. Roch 95 7,485 7,580 1,253
St. Thomas Area-Lower Garden District 14 6,202 6,216 225
St. Thomas Housing Development 26 2,295 2,321 1,120
Tall Timbers-Brechtel 65 12,669 12,734 510
Touro 4 2,859 2,863 140
Tulane-Gravier 50 3,606 3,655 1,368
Uptown 8 5,861 5,869 136
Viavant-Venetian Isles 13 1,111 1,124 1,157
Vieux Carre 12 3,523 3,535 339
Village De Lest 42 9,808 9,850 426
West Lake Forest 41 5,010 5,051 812
West Riverside 11 4,742 4,753 231

Sources and methodology

New Orleans neighborhoods
This is the City of New Orleans’ neighborhood statistical areas as drawn by the city and last updated in 2021.
Number of people in state prison from each New Orleans neighborhood, 2022
This is the number of people from each New Orleans neighborhood in state prison as of 2022. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020
This is the population of the New Orleans neighborhood as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020
This is the total population of the New Orleans neighborhood as reflected in the 2020 Census plus the imprisoned population.
Imprisonment rate per 100,000
This is the number of imprisoned people divided by the total population and then multiplied by 100,000. It allows ready comparison of the frequency of imprisonment between each New Orleans neighborhood of different population sizes.


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