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Safety in Farmerville · FBI data, 2023–2025

Crime per resident in Farmerville runs higher than in 95% of U.S. towns

Violent crime here is higher than in 97% of U.S. towns; property crime, higher than in 90%. What’s more, on the record of crimes Farmerville’s police reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes D for safety: #29 of 46 graded towns in Louisiana. Behind the grade sit 9.0 violent crimes and 29.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 8.9 and 36.8 in the rest of Louisiana.

Violent crime
9.0
per 1,000 a year · Close to rest of LA (8.9)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
29.3
per 1,000 a year · Below rest of LA (36.8)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
379
89 violent · 290 property
2023–2025
Trend
→ Steady
2023 to 2025
within ordinary swings

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 · In brief

What stands out about safety in Farmerville

Among Louisiana towns, closer to the middle

Louisiana’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Farmerville’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 37% of the 46 Louisiana towns we grade, against 5% nationally. Safety Grade ↓

Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Farmerville’s grade

Where Farmerville sits
D− Violent 9.0D Property 29.3
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 5%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Louisiana towns we grade (46)Less crime than 37% · #29 of 46
Places of 1,000–5,000 people (2,448)Less crime than 4%
A fairly firm grade. Built on 379 reported crimes over three years. Ordinary swings could put Farmerville anywhere from D− to D.

How TownRatings grades safety →

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.

Violent crime

Violent crime, by year and by type

Farmerville’s police reported 89 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 9.0 per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.9 in the rest of Louisiana and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

1,000 neighbors · one year

Crime in Farmerville per 1,000 residents

Property crime (26.5)Violent crime (7.2)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Farmerville7.2
Rest of LA8.2
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Farmerville26.5
Rest of LA29.6
U.S. (FBI)15.5

Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

And about 7 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

Trend

Reported crime is steady

Show as a table
YearFarmerville propertyRest of Louisiana propertyFarmerville violentRest of Louisiana violent
202337.343.29.29.4
202424.234.510.78.9
202526.529.67.28.2

Crimes per 1,000 residents

Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2023–2025, against the rest of Louisiana.

What gets reported

113 crimes reported in 2025

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft73
Burglary5
Vehicle theft11
Aggravated assault21
Robbery1
Rape1
Homicide1
Arson0
24
violent crimes
89
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

24 violent and 89 property, as reported to the FBI by Farmerville’s police.

On the roads

Two people died in crashes on Farmerville’s roads in 2019–2023

Farmerville had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people died.

That is about what is typical for Louisiana towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (9.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Farmerville’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Farmerville’s own rate (11.7) is context, not a ranking.

2
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
11.7
per 100,000 a year · Louisiana towns of 2,500–5,000: 9.8

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.

Next door

Farmerville and its neighbors

Farmerville
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
FarmervilleD9.029.3

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

Louisiana towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
FarmervilleD9.029.3
BlanchardB+1.84.2
VidaliaC−3.328.5
GreenwoodD5.030.4
VintonD−8.334.9
IowaD−15.017.4

The five graded Louisiana towns closest to Farmerville’s population (3,432), by grade.

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

How to read these numbers

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 Farmerville. 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 Farmerville’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (3,356 in 2025); our figure for Farmerville is 3,432 (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 Farmerville

Is Farmerville, LA safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Farmerville reports more crime per resident than 95% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #29 of 46 in Louisiana. Its police reported 9.0 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 Farmerville?

9.0 violent and 29.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Louisiana reports 8.9 and 36.8; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.

Who polices Farmerville?

Farmerville’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Farmerville”. 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.