Tainted Drywall

 

Counties with bad drywall in Louisiana

State County Addresses
(737 homes)
Louisiana St. Tammany Parish 281
Louisiana Orleans Parish 143
Louisiana St. Bernard Parish 125
Louisiana Jefferson Parish 51
Louisiana East Baton Rouge Parish 38
Louisiana Ascension Parish 34
Louisiana Tangipahoa Parish 18
Louisiana Livingston Parish 15
Louisiana West Baton Rouge Parish 6
Louisiana Washington Parish 6
Louisiana Iberville Parish 3
Louisiana St. Charles Parish 3
Louisiana Plaquemines Parish 3
Louisiana St. John the Baptist Parish 2
Louisiana Concordia Parish 2
Louisiana Caddo Parish 2
Louisiana Vermilion Parish 1
Louisiana East Feliciana Parish 1
Louisiana Calcasieu Parish 1
Louisiana Ouachita Parish 1
Louisiana St. Mary Parish 1

About this Data

Addresses in this database come from county property appraiser data (which had to be updated to reflect the reassessed value of homes with tainted drywall problems) and from consolidated lawsuits filed in New Orleans federal court. The data in the timeline above the chart came from the CPSC. Important: The timeline does not include data for the month of January in any of the years represented. That’s because some homeowners didn’t know exactly when their drywall problems began, and the CPSC placed all such reports in January of the given year, which would incorrectly skew the January numbers.

Correction (March 25, 2011): This news application originally included lists of contractors, manufacturers, distributors, importers and builders involved in lawsuits over tainted drywall. A software bug caused those lists to overstate the number of addresses associated with each company. The erroneous lists, and references to them, have been removed.