U.S.: Census: Post-Katrina New Orleans shrinks by a third
- 484,674 New Orleans’ population as of the 2000 census
- 343,829 the city’s population in 2010, five years after Hurricane Katrina source
- » As a whole, the country grew: In contrast with the decline of New Orleans’ population, the population at large grew by 9.7 percent, to 308.7 million. The data, overall, is expected to show that minorities caused much of the growth.