 James Russell, and architectural journalist for Bloomberg News said, “In New Orleans, public housing doesn’t mean bleak high-rise towers.The city has thousands of units with Georgian brickwork and lacy ironwork porches that came through Hurricane Katrina barely scathed.”

As of the census of 2000, there were 2,540 people, 830 households, and 689 families residing in the neighborhood.The population density was 42,333 /mi² (12,700 /km²).