Barataria ( ) is a

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(CDP) in

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, United States. The population was 1,057 in 2020. It is part of the

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– Metairie–

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metropolitan statistical area.

Etymology

The name comes from Bayou Barataria, a tributary of

Barataria Bay Barataria Bay (), also Barrataria Bay, is a bay of the Gulf of Mexico, about 15 miles (24 km) long and 12 miles (19 km) wide, in southeastern Louisiana, in Jefferson Parish and Plaquemines Parish, United States. It is separated from ...

which in turn took its name from the fictional island awarded to

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to govern in Part II of the Spanish classic novel ''

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'' by

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Geography

Barataria is located in south-central Jefferson Parish at (29.715121, -90.116024), on the west side of Bayou Barataria and just east of

Lake Salvador Lake Salvador () is a lake about southwest of New Orleans, Louisiana, in Jefferson, Lafourche, and St. Charles parishes. The lake has had multiple names. On the d'Anville map of 1732, the lake was Lac des Ounchas. The Darby map of 1816 lists ...

. It is bordered to the east, across Bayou Barataria, by the town of

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and the unincorporated community of Lafitte. Barataria is south of New Orleans. According to the

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, the Barataria CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 10.75%, are water.

Demographics

Barataria first appeared in the 1850 U.S. census with a total recorded population of 1,176.

2020 census

According to the 2020 United States census,there were 1,057 people, 428 households, and 350 families residing in the CDP, down from the 2019

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estimate of 1,200 people living in the CDP, and from 1,109 at the 2010 U.S. census. In 2019, the racial and ethnic makeup was 80.7%

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, 7.8% Black or African American, 0.3%

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, and 11.3%

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. In 2020, its composition was 84.3% non-Hispanic white, 4.07% Black or African American, 0.76% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.09% Asian, 6.91% multiracial or of some other race, and 3.88% Hispanic and Latino American of any race. The median household income was $49,931, and 3.3% of the population lived at or below the poverty line in 2019.

Education

Residents are zoned to Jefferson Parish Public Schools. Residents from K-6 are zoned to Leo E. Kerner Elementary School (formerly Lafitte Elementary School). Those from 7-12 are zoned to Fisher Middle-High School.

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