How New Orleans is built — and why it changes the price
At roughly 2,140 people per square mile, New Orleans gives a truck room to work — 363,000 residents across 170 square miles, most of them behind a driveway rather than a lobby.
46% of the 194,758 housing units in New Orleans are detached houses, with 21% in buildings of five or more. Most loads start at a driveway or a garage; the rest need a plan for the stairs.
Owners occupy 51% of homes in New Orleans. That tilts the work toward the unhurried kind: a garage, an attic, a basement, or the appliance that finally quit. The median home here dates to 1959 — mid-century stock, usually with an attached garage, which is where the load tends to be.
Measured from the city centre, our closest other coverage is Birmingham (303 miles), Houston (327 miles) and Memphis (349 miles). Pros work across those lines all day, so the bids on a New Orleans job often come from trucks that started the morning somewhere else entirely.