Photo: David Wilson · CC BY 2.0Morgan City reports more crime per resident than nine in ten U.S. towns
It has more violent crime than 92% of U.S. towns, and more property crime than 89%. Scored on crimes Morgan City’s police reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on D for safety: #24 of 46 graded towns in Louisiana. By contrast, the crimes the grade counts fell 37% per resident from 2023 to 2025. Out of every 1,000 residents, 6.1 violent crimes and 28.0 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 8.9 and 36.8 in the rest of 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 Morgan City
Among Louisiana towns, closer to the middle
Louisiana’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Morgan City’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 48% of the 46 Louisiana towns we grade, against 9% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Morgan City has 6,989 jobs based in town for 10,757 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Morgan City’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.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Morgan City property | Rest of Louisiana property | Morgan City violent | Rest of Louisiana violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 32.8 | 42.8 | 11.4 | 10.1 |
| 2023 | 33.6 | 43.3 | 8.3 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 28.3 | 34.6 | 5.5 | 8.9 |
| 2025 | 22.0 | 29.7 | 4.4 | 8.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Louisiana.
Crime in Morgan City per 1,000 residents
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.
And about 4 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Morgan City | Rest of Louisiana | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 11.4 | 10.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 8.3 | 9.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 5.5 | 8.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 4.4 | 8.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Morgan City’s police reported 197 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 6.1 per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.9 in the rest of Louisiana and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
282 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
47 violent and 235 property, as reported to the FBI by Morgan City’s police.
Five people died in crashes on Morgan City’s roads in 2019–2023
Morgan City had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
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 Morgan City’s size would see about 6 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Morgan City’s own rate (9.0) 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.
Morgan City and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan City | D | 6.1 | 28.0 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Louisiana towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan City | D | 6.1 | 28.0 |
| Covington | B− | 2.5 | 9.8 |
| DeRidder | C | 3.1 | 13.9 |
| Baker | C | 4.0 | 15.4 |
| Bogalusa | D− | 10.9 | 38.2 |
| West Monroe | D− | 11.9 | 57.1 |
The five graded Louisiana towns closest to Morgan City’s population (10,757), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
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 Morgan City. 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 Morgan City’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (10,669 in 2025); our figure for Morgan City is 10,757 (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 Morgan City
Is Morgan City, LA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Morgan City reports more crime per resident than 91% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #24 of 46 in Louisiana. Its police reported 6.1 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 Morgan City?
6.1 violent and 28.0 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 Morgan City?
Morgan City’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Morgan City”. 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.