Hurricane Katrina changed the face of New Orleans when it struck the U.S. Gulf coast on Aug. 29, 2005.

Here are some facts and figures about Katrina's impact on the famed U.S. birthplace of jazz music.

• Katrina killed about 1,500 people across the Gulf coast, the majority in greater New Orleans, according an estimate from the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
• U.S. authorities said 32,000 people were rescued from the city, many from rooftops or highway overpasses.
• Although Katrina was a Category 3 hurricane when it hit the Gulf coast, with winds of around 204 kilometres per hour, New Orleans only felt Category 1 or 2 hurricane winds; between 119 kilometres per hour and 177 kilometres per hour.
• Water spilling through breached levees flooded about 75 per cent of the city. In some places, floodwaters were estimated to be 4.3 metres deep.
• It took 53 days to pump 946.4 billion litres of water out of the city.
• Hurricanes Katrina and Rita created more than 24.6 million tons of debris — enough to fill the Louisiana Superdome sports stadium 13 times — including 350,000 flooded and abandoned cars and 60,000 damaged vessels.
• More than 200,000 people lost their jobs due to Katrina and Rita in Louisiana.

Sources: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. National Hurricane Center, U.S. Postal Service, Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, Louisiana Department of Labor, demographer GCR & Associates. (Additional reporting by Peter Henderson in New Orleans)