Chalmette
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unincorporated suburban community and census-designated place in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Louisiana
- Parish
- St. Bernard
- Total
- 7.97 sq mi (20.63 km )
- Land
- 7.17 sq mi (18.58 km )
- Water
- 0.79 sq mi (2.04 km )
- Elevation
- 3 ft (0.91 m)
- Density
- 3,005.4/sq mi (1,160.38/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Zip codes
- 70043, 70044
- Fips code
- 22-14135
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Chalmette
- Population
- 21562
- Area
- 20.372708
- Elevation
- 1
- Image
- Chalmette, LA.jpg
- Households
- 7668
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- Commons category
- Chalmette, Louisiana
- water as percent of area
- 9.065
- per capita income
- 23420
- postal code
- 70044
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Chalmette (/ʃælˈmɛt/ shal-MET) is a census-designated place (CDP) in, and the parish seat of, St. Bernard Parish in southeastern Louisiana, United States. The 2010 census reported that Chalmette had 16,751 people; 2011 population was listed as 17,119; however, the pre-Katrina population was 32,069 at the 2000 census. At the 2020 U.S. census, its population rebounded to 21,562. Chalmette is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner metropolitan statistical area. Chalmette is located east of downtown New Orleans and south of Arabi, towards Lake Borgne.
The community was named for plantation owner Louis-Xavier Martin de Lino de Chalmette. Chalmette was appended to the family name after acquiring their Louisiana plantation, in honour of Louis-Xavier Martin de Lino's paternal great-grandmother, Antoinette Chalmette (died 1711) Chalmette, in French, means "pasture", or "fallow land", (and traces to the Proto-Celtic word *kalm).