Lincoln Theater · Photo: Tjean314 · CC BY-SA 3.0Baker reports more crime per resident than 74% of U.S. towns
On crimes reported to the FBI by Baker’s police in 2023–2025, it grades C for safety: #14 of 46 graded towns in Louisiana.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of LA” is every other Louisiana city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Baker
Among Louisiana towns, closer to the middle
Louisiana’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Baker’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 70% of the 46 Louisiana towns we grade, against 26% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Baker’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its property rate (15.4) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
For every 1,000 residents, about 11 property crimes reported
And about 4 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Baker’s police reported 143 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 4.0 per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.9 in the rest of Louisiana and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Baker | Rest of Louisiana | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.4 | 10.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 3.9 | 9.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 4.0 | 8.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 4.0 | 8.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Reported crime is steady
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Louisiana.
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| Year | Baker property | Rest of Louisiana property | Baker violent | Rest of Louisiana violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 22.4 | 42.8 | 5.4 | 10.1 |
| 2023 | 17.9 | 43.4 | 3.9 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 17.4 | 34.7 | 4.0 | 8.9 |
| 2025 | 11.0 | 29.8 | 4.0 | 8.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
181 crimes reported in 2025
48 violent and 133 property, as reported to the FBI by Baker’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
Seven people died in crashes on Baker’s roads in 2019–2023
Baker had 7 fatal crashes in five years, in which seven people died; 2 were pedestrians.
That is about what is typical for Louisiana towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (10.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Baker’s size would see about 7 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Baker’s own rate (11.4) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Baker and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baker | C | 4.0 | 15.4 |
| Brownfields | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Brownfields is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
Louisiana towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baker | C | 4.0 | 15.4 |
| Mandeville | B− | 1.3 | 13.3 |
| Covington | B− | 2.5 | 9.8 |
| Morgan City | D | 6.1 | 28.0 |
| Gonzales | D | 5.2 | 40.3 |
| West Monroe | D− | 11.9 | 57.1 |
The five graded Louisiana towns closest to Baker’s population (12,136), by grade.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Baker. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Baker’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (12,074 in 2025); our figure for Baker is 12,136 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Baker
Is Baker, LA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Baker reports more crime per resident than 74% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #14 of 46 in Louisiana. Its police reported 4.0 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.9 in the rest of Louisiana and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Baker?
4.0 violent and 15.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Louisiana reports 8.9 and 37.0; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Baker?
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings.
Who polices Baker?
Baker’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Baker”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.