The Market Value Analysis (MVA) is a tool designed to assist the private market and government officials to identify and comprehend the various elements of local real estate markets. It is based fundamentally on local administrative data sources. By using an MVA, public sector officials and private market actors can more precisely craft intervention strategies in weak markets and support sustainable growth in stronger market segments.

In 2006, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) began acquiring quarterly extracts of U.S. Postal Service (USPS) data and publishing this data as a possible indicator of blight and vacancy for cities nationwide. In this report, addresses coded as “no–stat” in the HUD data are used as proxies for blighted housing units in New Orleans because a parcel–by–parcel census of all properties in New Orleans is not available. (HUD data description available at: http://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/usps.html)

Sales taxes received by the City include: General Sales Use Tax, Motor Vehicle Tax, and Hotel/Motel Tax. This data includes all three types for the City of New Orleans on an annual basis. This data comes from the City's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR).

This data includes city streetlights that have been retrofitted with LED technology.

New Orleans City Council District D - Effective May 5, 2014 Voters will be placed in the districts displayed by January 1, 2014 for all future elections. Council districts are based upon the 2010 census and redistricting. Precincts are drawn according to the New Orleans Home Rule Charter. Precinct boundaries were updated September 25, 2015, in order to satisfy population changes discovered by the Orleans Registrar of Voters Office. The changes have been made by the City of New Orleans and verified by the Louisiana Secretary of State's Office.

This dataset includes Building, Electrical, and Sign permits filed from December 1995 to January 2005.

Showing details of Interstate 10 traffic closure and exclusion zone.

1990 City of New Orleans/Orleans Parish Census data. ESRI shapefile format, GIS software required for viewing geometry (http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcreader/). Tabular data (DBF), included as part of the shapefile, are viewable in Excel.

Post-Katrina damage assessment conducted by City inspectors, published by address with breakdown by category. These data formerly supported the "Damage Assessment Wizard" web tool. Also see attachment 'DA_Categories' for insight as to how damage was assessed.