Metairie, LA (Louisiana) Houses and Residents

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(Urban population: 145,852, Rural population: 0)

Metairie, Louisiana Age and Sex of Residents

Houses: 67,081 (63,609 occupied: 39,277 owner occupied, 24,332 renter occupied)

% of renters here:	38%
State:	32%

Housing density: 2890 houses/condos per square mile

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Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses and condos in 2007 in this state: $151,800.

Median contract rent in 2007: $702 (lower quartile is $576, upper quartile is $857)

Housing units in Metairie with a mortgage: 20,958 (2,459 second mortgage, 1,859 home equity loan, 90 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 14,981

Metairie,LA index of house prices

Estimated median house or condo value in 2007: $221,300 (it was $137,200 in 2000)

Metairie:	$221,300
Louisiana:	$126,800

Lower value quartile - upper value quartile: $171,600 - $305,200

Mean price in 2007:

Detached houses: $268,653
Here: $268,653
State: $177,270

Townhouses or other attached units: $352,843
Here: $352,843
State: $167,971

In 2-unit structures: $251,079
Here: $251,079
State: $218,101

In 3-to-4-unit structures: $332,262
Here: $332,262
State: $189,844

In 5-or-more-unit structures: $188,184
Here: $188,184
State: $179,688

Mobile homes: $59,273
Here: $59,273
State: $34,481

Median year house/condo built: 1967

Median year apartment built: 1972

Household type by relationship

Households: 145,248

In family households: 116,582 (29,315 male householders, 9,944 female householders)
30,099 spouses, 38,743 children (35,991 natural, 896 adopted, 1,856 stepchildren), 2,460 grandchildren, 1,253 brothers or sisters, 1,149 parents, 1,829 other relatives, 1,790 non-relatives
In nonfamily households: 28,666 (10,610 male householders (8,587 living alone)), 13,924 female householders (12,447 living alone)), 4,132 nonrelatives
In group quarters: 604 (371 institutionalized population)

Size of family households: 18,123 2-persons, 9,626 3-persons, 7,322 4-persons, 2,997 5-persons, 891 6-persons, 300 7-or-more-persons.

Size of nonfamily households: 21,034 1-person, 3,017 2-persons, 404 3-persons, 60 4-persons, 8 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons.

20,521 married couples with children.
6,729 single-parent households (1,502 men, 5,227 women).

86.6% of residents of Metairie speak English at home.
7.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
3.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
2.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (47% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (63% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).

Foreign born population: 12,148 (8.3%)
(51.7% of them are naturalized citizens)

Median number of rooms in houses and condos:

Here:	6.2
State:	5.8

Median number of rooms in apartments:

Here:	3.7
State:	4.1

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Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Metairie, Louisiana:
	1 room: 64 2 rooms: 346 3 rooms: 1,091 4 rooms: 2,642 5 rooms: 7,398 6 rooms: 11,534 7 rooms: 7,239 8 rooms: 4,818 9 or more rooms: 4,145

Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Metairie, Louisiana:
	1 room: 1,468 2 rooms: 3,187 3 rooms: 5,822 4 rooms: 7,008 5 rooms: 4,048 6 rooms: 1,945 7 rooms: 563 8 rooms: 181 9 or more rooms: 110

Year house built:

1999 to March 2000: 305
1995 to 1998: 1,016
1990 to 1994: 1,647
1980 to 1989: 7,618
1970 to 1979: 19,725
1960 to 1969: 19,362
1950 to 1959: 11,196
1940 to 1949: 4,240
1939 or earlier: 1,972

Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses and condos in Metairie:
	no bedroom: 104 1 bedroom: 1,288 2 bedrooms: 5,493 3 bedrooms: 22,278 4 bedrooms: 8,470 5 or more bedrooms: 1,644

Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Metairie:
	no bedroom: 1,657 1 bedroom: 8,663 2 bedrooms: 9,576 3 bedrooms: 4,091 4 bedrooms: 290 5 or more bedrooms: 55

Owners and renters by unit type in %

Breakdown of mean house values by ages of householders

Cars and other vehicles available in Metairie in owner-occupied houses/condos:
	no vehicle: 1,700 1 vehicle: 13,046 2 vehicles: 18,231 3 vehicles: 4,856 4 vehicles: 1,156 5 or more vehicles: 288

Cars and other vehicles available in Metairie in n renter-occupied apartments
	no vehicle: 2,870 1 vehicle: 14,280 2 vehicles: 6,224 3 vehicles: 783 4 vehicles: 99 5 or more vehicles: 76

Estimate of home value of owner-occupied houses in 2007 in Metairie, LA:

Less than $10,000: 36
$10,000 to $14,999: 18
$15,000 to $19,999: 25
$20,000 to $24,999: 29
$25,000 to $29,999: 38
$30,000 to $34,999: 60
$35,000 to $39,999: 77
$40,000 to $49,999: 99
$50,000 to $59,999: 240
$60,000 to $69,999: 235
$70,000 to $79,999: 278
$80,000 to $89,999: 331
$90,000 to $99,999: 381
$100,000 to $124,999: 1836
$125,000 to $149,999: 3023
$150,000 to $174,999: 3624
$175,000 to $199,999: 3364
$200,000 to $249,999: 7348
$250,000 to $299,999: 4813
$300,000 to $399,999: 3627
$400,000 to $499,999: 1752
$500,000 to $749,999: 1485
$750,000 to $999,999: 451
$1,000,000 or more: 678

Metairie rent paid by renters for apartments graph

Rent paid by renters in 2007 in Metairie:

Less than $100: 66 people
$100 to $149: 39
$150 to $199: 97
$200 to $249: 78
$250 to $299: 72
$300 to $349: 97
$350 to $399: 180
$400 to $449: 354
$450 to $499: 756
$500 to $549: 1,493
$550 to $599: 1,867
$600 to $649: 2,234
$650 to $699: 2,056
$700 to $749: 1,790
$750 to $799: 1,473
$800 to $899: 2,048
$900 to $999: 1,518
$1,000 to $1,249: 1,651
$1,250 to $1,499: 624
$1,500 to $1,999: 324
$2,000 or more: 116
No cash rent: 809

Year of entry for the foreign-born population
	1995 to March 2000: 2,485 1990 to 1994: 1,832 1985 to 1989: 1,441 1980 to 1984: 1,585 1975 to 1979: 1,041 1970 to 1974: 746 1970 to 1974: 811 1965 to 1969: 2,207

Metairie, LA Time Leaving Home for Work

Percentage of workers working in this county: 61.7%
Number of people working at home: 1,830 (2.5% of all workers)

Travel time to work

Less than 5 minutes: 1402
5 to 9 minutes: 6328
10 to 14 minutes: 11639
15 to 19 minutes: 14203
20 to 24 minutes: 13691
25 to 29 minutes: 4704
30 to 34 minutes: 10051
35 to 39 minutes: 1443
40 to 44 minutes: 1796
45 to 59 minutes: 3458
60 to 89 minutes: 1592
90 or more minutes: 1043

Metairie mode of transportation to work chart

Means of transportation to work

Drove a car alone: 60,258 (82%)
Carpooled: 7,957 (11%)
Bus or trolley bus: 1,020 (1%)
Taxi: 253 (0%)
Motorcycle: 84 (0%)
Bicycle: 196 (0%)
Walked: 1,210 (2%)
Other means: 372 (1%)
Worked at home: 1,830 (3%)

Household income:

Less than $10,000: 5263
$10,000 to $14,999: 4111
$15,000 to $19,999: 4447
$20,000 to $24,999: 4610
$25,000 to $29,999: 4491
$30,000 to $34,999: 4339
$35,000 to $39,999: 3601
$40,000 to $44,999: 3787
$45,000 to $49,999: 3460
$50,000 to $59,999: 5342
$60,000 to $74,999: 6724
$75,000 to $99,999: 6220
$100,000 to $124,999: 3123
$125,000 to $149,999: 1328
$150,000 to $199,999: 1314
$200,000 or more: 1633

First ancestries reported:

Other groups: 25587

French (except Basque): 22766

Italian: 18229

German: 15728

Irish: 12220

United States or American: 7533

English: 6320

French Canadian: 2358

Scotch-Irish: 1577

Arab:: 1188

European: 1105

Scottish: 1046

Polish: 879

Greek: 706

Russian: 646

Norwegian: 554

Subsaharan African:: 542

Dutch: 481

British: 425

Acadian/Cajun: 423

African: 420

Swedish: 416

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 241

Lebanese: 238

Arab/Arabic: 238

Yugoslavian: 230

Danish: 227

Austrian: 212

Welsh: 208

Ukrainian: 192

Jordanian: 169

Hungarian: 160

Other Arab: 153

Palestinian: 146

Egyptian: 127

Croatian: 110

Portuguese: 105

Nigerian: 104

Swiss: 101

Iranian: 98

Czech: 87

Jamaican: 86

Eastern European: 84

Belgian: 81

Canadian: 73

Syrian: 72

Scandinavian: 72

Lithuanian: 71

Czechoslovakian: 64

Northern European: 61

Romanian: 58

Brazilian: 56

Finnish: 46

Basque: 45

Belizean: 44

Haitian: 44

Slovak: 40

Serbian: 38

West Indian: 35

Slavic: 32

Bulgarian: 30

Iraqi: 26

Turkish: 23

Moroccan: 19

Alsatian: 19

Trinidadian and Tobagonian: 19

Ethiopian: 18

Latvian: 13

British West Indian: 13

Celtic: 10

Cypriot: 6

Israeli: 6

Icelander: 6

Australian: 6

Pennsylvania German: 6

Slovene: 4

Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents (%):

Honduras (15%)
Nicaragua (8%)
Cuba (7%)
China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
India (5%)
Guatemala (5%)
Vietnam (4%)

Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:

This state: 108592
Northeast: 3693
Midwest: 4889
South: 12998
West: 2548

63% of Metairie residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in Louisiana.

Education attainment for males 25 years and older:

No schooling: 323
Nursery to 4th grade: 143
5th and 6th grade: 457
7th and 8th grade: 1,229
9th grade: 839
10th grade: 1,011
11th grade: 1,056
12th grade, no diploma: 1,563
High school graduate (or equivalency): 10,914
Less than 1 year of college: 3,191
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 9,065
Associate degree: 2,182
Bachelor's degree: 10,411
Master's degree: 2,615
Professional school degree: 2,646
Doctorate degree: 719

Educational Attainment for Males

Education attainment for females 25 years and older:

No schooling: 251
Nursery to 4th grade: 171
5th and 6th grade: 672
7th and 8th grade: 1,585
9th grade: 1,094
10th grade: 979
11th grade: 1,146
12th grade, no diploma: 1,771
High school graduate (or equivalency): 17,043
Less than 1 year of college: 3,837
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 9,546
Associate degree: 2,767
Bachelor's degree: 10,098
Master's degree: 2,872
Professional school degree: 1,248
Doctorate degree: 330

Educational Attainment for Females

Class of Workers

Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic males: 3.3%
Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic females: 3.5%

Unemployment rate for Black males: 7.7%
Unemployment rate for Black females: 9.9%

Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native males: 8.8%
Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native females: 14.0%

Unemployment rate for Asian males: 6.7%
Unemployment rate for Asian females: 6.0%

Unemployment rate for other race males: 5.1%
Unemployment rate for other race females: 3.5%

Unemployment rate for two or more race males: 3.8%
Unemployment rate for two or more race females: 5.5%

Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino males: 4.3%
Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino females: 4.2%

Median household income in 2007 for:

White non-Hispanic householders: $58,974
Black householders: $37,100
American Indian and Alaska Native householders: $51,167
Asian householders: $61,157
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander householders: $83,297
Some other race householders: $55,487
Two or more races householders: $38,661
Hispanic or Latino race householders: $39,662

Metairie household income for White non-Hispanic householders

Metairie household income for Black householders

Metairie household income for American Indian and Alaska Native householders

Metairie household income for Asian householders

Metairie household income for Some other race householders

Metairie household income for Two or more races householders

Metairie household income for Hispanic or Latino race householders

Metairie marital status for males

Metairie marital status for females

Median 2007 house value for:

White Non-Hispanic householders: $226,945
Black or African American householders: $93,713
American Indian or Alaska Native householders: $219,203
Asian householders: $247,268
Some other race householders: $181,136
Two or more races householders: $202,105
Hispanic or Latino householders: $208,234

Housing units in structures:

One, detached: 40,348
One, attached: 2,622
Two: 3,304
3 or 4: 4,347
5 to 9: 2,464
10 to 19: 2,910
20 to 49: 3,625
50 or more: 7,184
Mobile homes: 268
Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9

Median worth of mobile homes: $167,051

Housing units lacking complete plumbing facilities: 0%

Housing units lacking complete kitchen facilities: 0%

Year Householders Moved Into Unit in Metairie:

Most commonly used house heating fuel in houses and condos:
	Utility gas (76%) Electricity (24%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)

Most commonly used house heating fuel in apartments:
	Electricity (75%) Utility gas (24%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)

Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7,184

Here:	53.5%
Louisiana:	17.2%

Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3,943

Here:	55.9%
Louisiana:	15.5%

Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2,278

Here:	29.4%
Louisiana:	16.8%

School Enrollment by Level of School for Male Students

School Enrollment by Level of School for Female Students

Age and Sex of Sensory-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Physically-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Mentally-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Self-Care Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Go-Outside-Home Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Residents with Employment Disability (Noninst.)

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