The population of Orleans Parish is estimated at 393,021. In 2017 there were 4,938 births and 3,437 deaths in Orleans Parish . Orleans Parish has 41,369 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 26,634 that are owned free and clear and 74,155 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Orleans Parish filed 160,470 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 8.2% of all Louisiana filings and 0.108% of the entire nation. Orleans Parish had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,993,700,000 on earned income of $9,928,348,000. Other notable statistics from Orleans Parish were 3,700 unemployment claims which collected a total of $11,782,000 and 33,280 charitable contributions valued at $270,921,000. 29,460 filings from Orleans Parish paid a combined total of $135,965,000 in property taxes and 25,830 filings paid $227,071,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Orleans Parish had 331 religious congregations with an estimated 191,588 members.
36.5% of the Orleans Parish population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 14.1% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 42% of Orleans Parish voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 8,386 votes.
At $37,407 the median income is 80.8% of the Louisiana average. An estimated 9,201 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Orleans Parish, the equivalant of around 5.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Orleans Parish .
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
35,510	Accommodation and food services
24,153	Food services and drinking places
21,761	Health care and social assistance
17,699	Restaurants and other eating places
13,212	Professional, scientific, and technical services
12,371	Retail trade
11,816	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
11,782	Full-service restaurants
11,545	Administrative and support services
11,357	Accommodation
11,333	Traveler accommodation
9,703	Hospitals
7,452	General medical and surgical hospitals
6,576	Finance and insurance
6,218	Transportation and warehousing

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