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Safety in Rayne · Not graded

Crime reported in Rayne, LA

Rayne’s police reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2024 but not 2025, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025.

Violent crimes
5
reported to the FBI, 2024
Property crimes
61
reported to the FBI, 2024
Nearest graded town
12 mi
Church Point (C)
1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 9 property crimes reported

And about 1 violent crime, in 2024. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

Property crime (8.8)Violent crime (0.7)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2024

Rayne0.7
Rest of LA8.9
U.S. (FBI)3.6

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2024

Rayne8.8
Rest of LA34.7
U.S. (FBI)17.7

Crimes reported to police in 2024 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

By year

The years Rayne’s police reported

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of Louisiana. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.

Show as a table
YearRayneRest of LouisianaRayneRest of Louisiana
20228.742.80.410.1
202311.443.30.49.4
20248.834.70.78.9
2025not reported29.6not reported8.2

Crimes per 1,000 residents

What gets reported

66 crimes reported in 2024

5 violent and 61 property, as reported to the FBI by Rayne’s police.

2024 offenses reported

Larceny / theft54
Burglary4
Vehicle theft3
Aggravated assault5
Robbery0
Rape0
Homicide0
Arson0
5
violent crimes
61
property crimes

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

Nearest with figures

The nearest Louisiana towns with a Safety Grade

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
Church PointC12 mi5.27.3
LafayetteD−14 mi10.041.3
BroussardC20 mi1.919.7
OpelousasD−23 mi14.851.3
JenningsD−23 mi9.937.1
ErathB−24 mi3.44.3

Straight-line distance from the center of Rayne. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Rayne.

On the roads

Eight people died in crashes on Rayne’s roads in 2019–2023

Rayne had 7 fatal crashes in five years, in which eight people died; 1 was a pedestrian. Most of these deaths (4 of 8) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.

That is more than 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 Rayne’s size would see about 4 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Rayne’s own rate (22.5) is context, not a ranking.

8
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
1
pedestrian among them
0
cyclists among them
22.5
per 100,000 a year · Louisiana towns of 5,000–25,000: 10.9

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

Rayne and its neighbors

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

Rayne
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty

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

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 Rayne. 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 Rayne’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (6,910 in 2024); our figure for Rayne is 6,995 (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 Rayne

Is Rayne, LA safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Rayne. Rayne’s police reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2024 but not 2025, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025. The nearest Louisiana towns with a grade are Church Point (C, 12 mi), Lafayette (D−, 14 mi), Broussard (C, 20 mi).

Who polices Rayne?

Rayne’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Rayne”. 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, 2024, 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.