As of the census of 2000, there were 2,540 people, 830 households, and 689 families residing in the neighborhood. The population density was 42,333 /mi² (12,700 /km²). When the projects in New Orleans were racially integrated in the 1960s, low-income whites had options available to move to the suburbs, but their African American counterparts did not. As with all of the New Orleans projects, Iberville became home to thousands of the city's poorest African Americans. In 2000, 76 percent of the households in the Iberville made less than $10,000 per year.