Hurricane Katrina caused severe flooding in 2005 had a major change of the demographic landscape of New Orleans. New Orleans city has been a shrinking city for the last half or the century but the growing suburbs balanced the population loss until 2005. Hurricane Katrina has caused the city to shrink at a faster rate. After five years of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has showed the ability to recover from the storm even though the hurricane Katrina has raised the decline of the population. A thorough examination of the data would give us information that Katrina has caused a major change in the city’s landscape.
