Louisiana Crime Rates & City Safety Scores
Population-adjusted FBI reporting rates; see the city profiles below.
Key facts
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Louisiana displays a 33.51-point adjusted-score range in its 2025 source-year cohort: Kenner, Louisiana at 51.69 points out of 100 versus Shreveport, Louisiana at 18.18.
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Louisiana displays 6 jurisdiction profiles from a scoring run containing 100 reportable jurisdictions in its 2025 source-year directory; 6 displayed profiles have scores.
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Louisiana has 3 displayed jurisdictions with decreasing reported trajectories versus 1 increasing and 2 stable, comparing weighted 2024 reporting with 2025.
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New Orleans, Louisiana has a reporting population of 376,035 residents versus 65,113 in Kenner, Louisiana, in the 2025 source-year displayed cohort.
Quick answer
In the Safety Atlas 2026 public safety index, the highest-scoring city in Louisiana is Kenner with an adjusted safety score of 51.69 out of 100, ranked across 6 tracked jurisdictions using 2025 FBI reporting.
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Louisiana city safety rankings
Ranked by adjusted Safety Atlas score. The table lists the 6 most populous jurisdictions in this directory; each rank is calculated within this displayed 6-jurisdiction cohort.
| City / Jurisdiction | Cohort Rank | Population | Safety Score | Overall Trend | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenner | #1 of 6 | 65,113 | 51.69 | ↓ Decreasing | View Report → |
| Baton Rouge | #2 of 6 | 223,699 | 47.83 | ↓ Decreasing | View Report → |
| New Orleans | #3 of 6 | 376,035 | 42.0 | → Stable | View Report → |
| Lafayette | #4 of 6 | 121,537 | 34.13 | ↑ Increasing | View Report → |
| Lake Charles | #5 of 6 | 81,679 | 33.68 | → Stable | View Report → |
| Shreveport | #6 of 6 | 183,483 | 18.18 | ↓ Decreasing | View Report → |
* Trajectory trends compare weighted year-over-year reporting from 2024 to 2025. Scores describe relative reported rates, not personal risk. Cohort rank covers only the 6 jurisdictions listed above.
Louisiana in 7 numbers
- Every major offense fell in 2025. Motor vehicle theft -31% (15,060 to 10,428), robbery -25%, burglary -25%, homicide -20%, larceny-theft -15%, aggravated assault -11%.
- Almost half of all reports are property crime. 130,022 of 302,545 reports (43.0%); larceny-theft alone is 86,610 (28.6%).
- Clearances skew toward violent crime. 57% of homicides cleared vs 18% of motor vehicle thefts and 19% of burglaries (2025, reports cleared divided by reports received, reporting agencies only).
- Homicides fell by nearly a fifth. 577 reports in 2025 vs 717 in 2024 (-20%) across reporting agencies.
- The biggest volume is not violent. Simple assault (54,557) alone outweighs the entire personal-safety total (30,404, 10.0% of reports).
- Watch the monthly shape. Larceny-theft peaked in Jul (7,870) and troughed in Feb (6,562), a 1.2× swing inside a single year.
- These are reporting-agency sums. 79 of 208 agencies reported motor vehicle theft in December 2025 (vs 83 in January); totals reflect who reported, not a census of crime.
Takeaways are computed from summed FBI CDE reported counts (source year 2025, 208 agencies in file). They describe reported data, not forecasts; check the methodology and coverage notes before reuse.
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Louisiana monthly trend: reporting-agency sums through December 2025
Annual totals hide timing. The bars below show 2025 reported counts per month summed across reporting agencies for three indicator offenses. Counts only; there is no honest monthly denominator at this grain, so no rates are shown.
Larceny-theft, month by month
↓ Decreasing, 86610 reports vs 102001 in 2024 (down 15% in reported data).
| Month | Count | Agencies | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2025 | 7,064 | 85 | Full |
| Feb 2025 | 6,562 | 86 | Full |
| Mar 2025 | 7,232 | 86 | Full |
| Apr 2025 | 7,406 | 85 | Full |
| May 2025 | 7,402 | 84 | Full |
| Jun 2025 | 7,299 | 84 | Full |
| Jul 2025 | 7,870 | 83 | Full |
| Aug 2025 | 7,220 | 82 | Full |
| Sep 2025 | 7,190 | 82 | Full |
| Oct 2025 | 7,399 | 82 | Full |
| Nov 2025 | 6,972 | 82 | Full |
| Dec 2025 | 6,994 | 82 | Full |
Simple assault, month by month
→ Stable, 54557 reports vs 59165 in 2024 (about level in reported data).
| Month | Count | Agencies | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2025 | 4,113 | 68 | Full |
| Feb 2025 | 4,221 | 67 | Full |
| Mar 2025 | 4,716 | 67 | Full |
| Apr 2025 | 4,595 | 66 | Full |
| May 2025 | 4,872 | 66 | Full |
| Jun 2025 | 4,219 | 66 | Full |
| Jul 2025 | 4,535 | 66 | Full |
| Aug 2025 | 4,720 | 66 | Full |
| Sep 2025 | 4,838 | 65 | Full |
| Oct 2025 | 4,851 | 65 | Full |
| Nov 2025 | 4,514 | 65 | Full |
| Dec 2025 | 4,363 | 65 | Full |
Drug/Narcotic Violations, month by month
→ Stable, 33810 reports vs 36704 in 2024 (about level in reported data).
| Month | Count | Agencies | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2025 | 2,731 | 74 | Full |
| Feb 2025 | 2,745 | 74 | Full |
| Mar 2025 | 3,155 | 74 | Full |
| Apr 2025 | 2,869 | 73 | Full |
| May 2025 | 2,939 | 73 | Full |
| Jun 2025 | 2,700 | 73 | Full |
| Jul 2025 | 3,066 | 73 | Full |
| Aug 2025 | 2,838 | 72 | Full |
| Sep 2025 | 2,934 | 72 | Full |
| Oct 2025 | 2,918 | 72 | Full |
| Nov 2025 | 2,628 | 72 | Full |
| Dec 2025 | 2,287 | 72 | Full |
Clearances: what got cleared in 2025
57% of homicides cleared vs 18% of motor vehicle thefts, clearance follows violent crime, not volume.
| Offense | Reported | Cleared | Clearance rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 577 | 328 | 56.8% |
| Aggravated Assault | 24,909 | 12,046 | 48.4% |
| Robbery | 1,834 | 608 | 33.2% |
| Burglary | 18,959 | 3,614 | 19.1% |
| Larceny-theft | 86,610 | 20,377 | 23.5% |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 10,428 | 1,849 | 17.7% |
Clearances ÷ reports received; clearances may concern earlier reports, so this is not a solve rate.
Monthly counts summed over reporting agencies, FBI CDE source year 2025. A hyphen (-) means not reported, not zero. Totals reflect who reported, not a census of crime.
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Louisiana city reports
- Kenner safety report: #1 of 6, population 65,113, score 51.69, and the displayed trajectory is ↓ Decreasing.
- Baton Rouge safety report: #2 of 6, population 223,699, score 47.83, and the displayed trajectory is ↓ Decreasing.
- New Orleans safety report: #3 of 6, population 376,035, score 42.0, and the displayed trajectory is → Stable.
- Lafayette safety report: #4 of 6, population 121,537, score 34.13, and the displayed trajectory is ↑ Increasing.
- Lake Charles safety report: #5 of 6, population 81,679, score 33.68, and the displayed trajectory is → Stable.
- Shreveport safety report: #6 of 6, population 183,483, score 18.18, and the displayed trajectory is ↓ Decreasing.
Reading the comparison
Scores compare reported rates; they do not predict personal risk. Methodology · Coverage
Monthly count comparisons
Louisiana reporting agencies recorded 7,870 larceny-theft offenses in Jul 2025 versus 6,562 in Feb 2025, a difference of 1,308 reports; 83 agencies reported in the peak-count month compared with 86 in the minimum-count month, within 12 displayed months totaling 86,610 reports (FBI CDE reporting-agency sums, not statewide population rates).
Louisiana reporting agencies recorded 4,872 simple assault offenses in May 2025 versus 4,113 in Jan 2025, a difference of 759 reports; 66 agencies reported in the peak-count month compared with 68 in the minimum-count month, within 12 displayed months totaling 54,557 reports (FBI CDE reporting-agency sums, not statewide population rates).
Louisiana reporting agencies recorded 3,155 drug/narcotic violations offenses in Mar 2025 versus 2,287 in Dec 2025, a difference of 868 reports; 74 agencies reported in the peak-count month compared with 72 in the minimum-count month, within 12 displayed months totaling 33,810 reports (FBI CDE reporting-agency sums, not statewide population rates).
Louisiana reporting agencies recorded 328 cleared homicide offenses against 577 reports received in 2025 (56.8%), compared with 1,849 cleared motor vehicle theft offenses against 10,428 reports (17.7%), a 39.1-percentage-point difference between the displayed clearance ratios; clearances can concern earlier reports.
Shreveport, Louisiana records 18.18 adjusted score points out of 100 in the 2025 source-year directory, 19.74 points below the displayed scored-cohort mean of 37.92; its reporting population of 183,483 residents accounts for 17.4% of the 1,051,546 residents summed across the 6 displayed jurisdiction populations.
Kenner, Louisiana records 51.69 adjusted score points out of 100 in the 2025 source-year directory, 13.77 points above the displayed scored-cohort mean of 37.92; its reporting population of 65,113 residents accounts for 6.2% of the 1,051,546 residents summed across the 6 displayed jurisdiction populations.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana records 47.83 adjusted score points out of 100 in the 2025 source-year directory, 9.91 points above the displayed scored-cohort mean of 37.92; its reporting population of 223,699 residents accounts for 21.3% of the 1,051,546 residents summed across the 6 displayed jurisdiction populations.
Louisiana reporting-agency sums contain 86,610 larceny-theft reports in 2025 versus 102,001 in 2024, 15,391 reports (15.1%) fewer across the two complete twelve-month source series; monthly reporting participation ranges from 82 to 96 agencies across those years, so the count change includes differences in participation and is not a population-adjusted rate change.
Louisiana reporting-agency sums contain 54,557 simple assault reports in 2025 versus 59,165 in 2024, 4,608 reports (7.8%) fewer across the two complete twelve-month source series; monthly reporting participation ranges from 65 to 77 agencies across those years, so the count change includes differences in participation and is not a population-adjusted rate change.
Louisiana reporting-agency sums contain 27,978 vandalism reports in 2025 versus 34,117 in 2024, 6,139 reports (18.0%) fewer across the two complete twelve-month source series; monthly reporting participation ranges from 74 to 88 agencies across those years, so the count change includes differences in participation and is not a population-adjusted rate change.
How to read the Louisiana directory
The scoring run contains 100 reportable jurisdictions in Louisiana. This public directory displays the 6 most populous jurisdictions in the current scored comparison set, and each displayed city's rank is calculated within this displayed 6-jurisdiction cohort.
Within the displayed cohort, Kenner has the highest adjusted score at 51.69, and Shreveport has the lowest at 18.18. The public-cohort range is 33.51 points; use the offense-rate tables on each city profile to understand that spread.
Current trajectories in the displayed cohort: 3 decreasing, 2 stable, and 1 increasing. Trends compare weighted 2024 and 2025 reporting and do not forecast future incidents.
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