Crime in Louisiana (2024)
Louisiana agencies reported 97,163 offenses to the FBI in 2024: 18,324 violent crimes, 78,575 property crimes and 264 arsons, across 136 reporting agencies.
Per 100,000 residents
Against a 2024 population of 4,614,878 (Census estimates). A floor: Louisiana agencies that did not report contribute nothing.
Offenses by category
| Offense | Offenses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Murder & nonnegligent manslaughter | 362 | 0.4% |
| Rape | 1,193 | 1.2% |
| Robbery | 1,292 | 1.3% |
| Aggravated assault | 15,477 | 15.9% |
| Burglary | 14,014 | 14.4% |
| Larceny-theft | 56,239 | 57.9% |
| Motor vehicle theft | 8,322 | 8.6% |
| Arson | 264 | 0.3% |
By county
Counties with sufficient reporting coverage (54 of Louisiana's counties).
- Acadia Parish
- Ascension Parish
- Beauregard Parish
- Bienville Parish
- Bossier Parish
- Caddo Parish
- Calcasieu Parish
- Caldwell Parish
- Cameron Parish
- Catahoula Parish
- Claiborne Parish
- Concordia Parish
- De Soto Parish
- East Baton Rouge Parish
- East Carroll Parish
- Evangeline Parish
- Franklin Parish
- Grant Parish
- Iberia Parish
- Iberville Parish
- Jackson Parish
- Jefferson Davis Parish
- Jefferson Parish
- Lafayette Parish
- Lafourche Parish
- LaSalle Parish
- Lincoln Parish
- Livingston Parish
- Madison Parish
- Morehouse Parish
- Natchitoches Parish
- Ouachita Parish
- Plaquemines Parish
- Pointe Coupee Parish
- Rapides Parish
- St. Bernard Parish
- St. Charles Parish
- St. Helena Parish
- St. James Parish
- St. John the Baptist Parish
- St. Landry Parish
- St. Martin Parish
- St. Mary Parish
- St. Tammany Parish
- Tangipahoa Parish
- Tensas Parish
- Terrebonne Parish
- Vermilion Parish
- Washington Parish
- Webster Parish
- West Baton Rouge Parish
- West Carroll Parish
- West Feliciana Parish
- Winn Parish
Largest reporting agencies
| Agency | Violent | Property | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shreveport Police Department | 2,151 | 6,987 | 9,163 |
| Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office | 1,007 | 7,139 | 8,184 |
| Lafayette Police Department | 1,295 | 5,281 | 6,578 |
| East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office | 433 | 5,063 | 5,502 |
| Baton Rouge Police Department | 663 | 3,812 | 4,481 |
| Alexandria Police Department | 1,165 | 2,832 | 4,004 |
| Monroe Police Department | 876 | 2,654 | 3,531 |
| Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office | 627 | 2,627 | 3,256 |
| Bossier City Police Department | 573 | 2,309 | 2,890 |
| Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office | 478 | 2,157 | 2,639 |
| Lake Charles Police Department | 478 | 1,926 | 2,404 |
| Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office | 484 | 1,858 | 2,348 |
| Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office | 655 | 1,402 | 2,071 |
| Kenner Police Department | 215 | 1,767 | 1,985 |
| Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office | 227 | 1,726 | 1,962 |
How to read these numbers
Counts are offenses reported by law-enforcement agencies to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program for 2024(Return A master file, which incorporates the FBI's own NIBRS-to-SRS conversion for agencies that report incident-based data). Nothing here is estimated: an agency that did not report contributes nothing, so totals are floors, not universes.
County figures use headquarters-county assignment: an agency's offenses count in the county where it is headquartered. Sheriff and state-police activity can span county lines; a county's figure is best read as "offenses reported by agencies based here." Counties where reporting agencies cover less than half of the policed population get no page; between 50% and 80% the page carries a visible partial-coverage notice.
Rates per 100,000 residentsuse Census Population Estimates (PEP) for the same year as the crime data. They appear only where the population served by agencies headquartered in a county is within 10% of the population that lives there. Where a police force covers several counties — the NYPD polices five boroughs from its Manhattan headquarters — the two geographies disagree, and a rate would be wrong by several times over in both directions. Those counties show counts without a rate rather than a number that looks authoritative and isn't.
Because non-reporting agencies contribute nothing, every rate here is a floor: the true rate is at least this high. Rates are most comparable between places with similar reporting coverage, which each page states.
Violent crime = murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault. Property crime = burglary + larceny-theft + motor vehicle theft. Arson is tracked separately (from the FBI's de-duplicated SRS/NIBRS arson data) and is excluded from the property composite, following FBI practice. Aggravated assault excludes simple assault.
These figures will not match the FBI's published national estimates(which impute for non-reporting agencies) or the 12-month quarterly trend windows elsewhere on this site — different universes, both documented.