Number of children in New Orleans area has declined 22 percent from 2000 to 2010

News release: The population decline among children in the New Orleans metropolitan area since 2000 has been more acute than the decline in the adult population, according to the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center. Between 2000 and 2010, the number of children under 18 in the metropolitan dropped 22 percent compared with a drop of only 7 percent among adults. In Orleans Parish, child population had plummeted 43 percent during the decade.