1. Start with the geography your firm actually serves
New Orleans city is a municipality in Louisiana, and the recorded county relationship is Orleans Parish. The 2020–2024 ACS five-year population estimate for the city is 371,853; the source does not provide a margin of error. That figure is eligibility context, not proof that people are searching for a particular practice area or that a channel will produce cases. Attribution should therefore preserve the geography attached to each inquiry rather than turn population into a demand claim. In a consultation, review whether your records distinguish New Orleans city from other places in Orleans Parish and from areas outside your intended service territory. The useful decision is not how large the population sounds. It is whether your reporting can show which geographic pages, referrals or campaigns generated inquiries that your firm could actually accept.
Recommended approach
Define the service-area fields and geographic labels you want to review before judging performance. Keep New Orleans city and Orleans Parish distinct where that distinction affects intake, eligibility or budget decisions.
