New Orleans, Louisiana

RENTER HOUSEHOLDS: 79,579

Eviction filings in Orleans Parish, LA (city of 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.

More detail on eviction protections in Louisiana can be found on the COVID-19 Housing Policy Scorecard.

Eviction Filings By Week

Weekly Filings

Filings Trend

Local Moratorium

CDC Order

* Filings in the last week may be undercounted as a result of processing delays. These counts will be revised in the following week.

Changes in eviction filings

Eviction filings in New Orleans were near typical levels in January and February of 2020. Filings began to fall in March and were at zero in April and May 2020, but have since increased.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.

The geography of changes in 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 four weeks.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

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.
Tract-level breakdown of renter race/ethnicity determined using American Community Survey (ACS) estimates for 2015–2019.

Eviction filings by neighborhood demographics

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 six months and average filings in 2019.¹

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.