How much does it cost to get a car out of impound in French Quarter?

Impound costs inside Orleans Parish follow the City of New Orleans' own fee schedule, raised July 27, 2026. A Light Duty tow and impound runs a $228.75 minimum for the first 90 minutes, then $76.25 per additional half hour. Confirm current storage and boot amounts with the Parking Division. We do not publish those two figures while City sources conflict. Release happens at the Claiborne Avenue Auto Pound, 400 N. Claiborne Ave, open 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week; call (504) 658-8100 to confirm a vehicle was towed or (504) 658-8284 to check a fee balance.

City enforcement in the French Quarter is unusually aggressive, and tow trucks work these streets even overnight, so the first move on a missing car is the number posted on any private-lot sign, not a phone call. Bourbon, Decatur, and Royal sit inside Orleans Parish, so a city tow still falls under the same $228.75-minimum Light Duty rate charged parishwide. Constant tourist rental-car overflow on residential blocks, bachelor and bachelorette weekend traffic, and French Quarter Fest or Jazz Fest crowds spilling block by block keep private lots enforcing residents-only zones hard. Most jobs here run on a flatbed working narrow side streets, not Bourbon itself, especially after 2 a.m. bar close. If a city tow, call (504) 658-8100 to confirm where the car went, then head to the Claiborne Avenue Auto Pound at 400 N. Claiborne Ave, open 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. If it was booted rather than towed, the city's Boot Release line is 1-855-437-9340, or pay at the Administrative Hearing Center on Poydras St. The Quarter's roughly 3,900 residents, a 2010 count and the most recent one found, are vastly outnumbered nightly by tourists and the Honduran-heavy service workforce commuting in daily.