Eviction Tracking
New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

Eviction filings in New Orleans fell sharply in late-March 2020 and have remained below historical averages. The state of Louisiana instituted an eviction moratorium in March 2020, but those statewide protections expired in mid-June 2020. In August and September 2021, Hurricane Ida caused local courts to close and led Governor Edwards to halt court proceedings until September 24.

  1. Data on renter population and median rent drawn from the American Community Survey (ACS). Details of the eviction process from the LSC Eviction Laws Database.

Filing Counts

Filing Rates Over the Past Year

Trends in eviction filings

This plot shows monthly eviction filings in New Orleans over the last year. Filings are displayed relative to the pre-pandemic average for the same set of months. You can toggle the plot to display filing counts and to extend the time frame back to January 2020.1

  1. Eviction filing data were collected by Professor Davida Finger (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law). Professor Finger works in partnership with Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative. Historical averages are taken from 2019 data.

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Eviction filings by defendant race/ethnicity and gender

There are often large racial/ethnic and gender disparities in eviction risk. Here, we estimate the demographic characteristics of those filed against for eviction over the last year. We compare to data from the ACS that show the share of renters in the same categories.1

Share of eviction filings

Share of renters

FILINGS OVER THE LAST YEAR BY DEFENDANT RACE/ETHNICITY AND GENDER

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  • Statistics rely on imputation of race/ethnicity and gender based on defendant names and addresses. We refer to “gender” throughout while acknowledging necessarily limitations of the imputation process and its inability to capture important subtleties in individuals’ gender identification. A complete description of this process can be found in the ETS methods page. ACS data are from 2015-2019 five-year estimates.

Changes in claim amounts

When a landlord files an eviction claim in New Orleans, we observe the amount they claim the tenant owes in back rent, late fees, and damages. In this figure, we plot the typical (median) amount claimed in eviction filings for each month over the last year. We exclude cases in which the landlord doesn’t make a monetary claim, and we drop months if there were fewer than 10 eviction cases filed. The dashed horizontal line on the plot marks the typical claim on an eviction case filed before the pandemic.

Median Claim Amount by Month

Over the past year, of all eviction claims,

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The geography of eviction filings

New Orleans is divided into 177 census tracts. In most of those tracts, we map the number of eviction filings over the last year.1 If you toggle below you can see these numbers as eviction filing rates—the number of eviction filings divided by the number of renter households in the area—or compared to the typical number of filings in the average year.2

  1. We do not have tract-level data for areas covered by the Second City Court, on the West Bank of Orleans Parish (south of the Mississippi River). Eviction filing data were collected by Professor Davida Finger (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law). Professor Finger works in partnership with Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative. Historical averages are taken from 2019 data.
  2. Tract-level breakdown of renter race/ethnicity determined using American Community Survey (ACS) estimates for 2015–2019.

On map, we also plot the location of the top 100 eviction hotspots in the county (see above). Hover over the circles to see more information about filings from these locations.3

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The demographics of eviction filings

Eviction filings by neighborhood race/ethnicity

American Community Survey (ACS) data allow us to categorize neighborhoods by their racial/ethnic majority: White, Black, or Other/None.

When you toggle the figure to see data relative to average, comparisons are being drawn—within the same set of neighborhoods defined by racial/ethnic majority—between filings over the last year and average filings in 2019.1

  1. We do not have tract-level data for areas covered by the Second City Court, on the West Bank of Orleans Parish (south of the Mississippi River). Eviction filing data were collected by Professor Davida Finger (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law). Professor Finger works in partnership with Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative. Historical averages are taken from 2019 data.

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Eviction filings by defendant race/ethnicity and gender

There are often large racial/ethnic and gender disparities in eviction risk. Here, we estimate the demographic characteristics of those filed against for eviction over the last year. We compare to data from the ACS that show the share of renters in the same categories.1

Share of eviction filings

Share of renters

FILINGS OVER THE LAST YEAR BY DEFENDANT RACE/ETHNICITY AND GENDER

Get the data for these figures
  • Statistics rely on imputation of race/ethnicity and gender based on defendant names and addresses. We refer to “gender” throughout while acknowledging necessarily limitations of the imputation process and its inability to capture important subtleties in individuals’ gender identification. A complete description of this process can be found in the ETS methods page. ACS data are from 2015-2019 five-year estimates.

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