393,000 Black New Orleans Residents Displaced; 100,000 Never Return

Census analysis by demographer William Frey showed approximately 393,000 Black residents left the New Orleans metropolitan area after Katrina. By 2010 New Orleans's Black population had fallen from 67% to 59% of the city. Neighborhoods such as Broadmoor, Gentilly, and the Lower Ninth Ward — historically Black — redeveloped as whiter and wealthier, a process activists called 'ethnic cleansing by disaster.'