Photo: Paul Sableman · CC BY 2.0In Louisiana, the kinds of crime the grade counts fell 69% per resident from 2023 to 2025
On property crime it beats 61% of U.S. towns; on violent crime, only 44%. The local count comes to 1.9 violent crimes and 8.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 5.8 and 26.2 in the rest of Missouri. What’s more, the overall Safety Grade is B (#49 of 172 graded towns in Missouri), which means close to the middle of U.S. towns, judged on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of MO” is every other Missouri 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 Louisiana
Among Missouri towns, higher
Missouri’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Louisiana’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 72% of the 172 Missouri towns we grade, against 56% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
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 Louisiana’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Property crime holds Louisiana’s grade up; violent crime pulls it down. Its violent rate (1.9) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Louisiana property | Rest of Missouri property | Louisiana violent | Rest of Missouri violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 12.0 | 28.8 | 3.7 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 8.9 | 27.0 | 1.5 | 6.0 |
| 2025 | 4.3 | 22.9 | 0.6 | 5.4 |
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, 2023–2025, against the rest of Missouri.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Louisiana | Rest of Missouri | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.7 | 5.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.5 | 6.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.6 | 5.4 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Louisiana’s police reported 19 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.9 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.8 in the rest of Missouri and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Louisiana 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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
16 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.
2 violent and 14 property, as reported to the FBI by Louisiana’s police.
One person died in crashes on Louisiana’s roads in 2019–2023
Louisiana had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died.
That is about what is typical for Missouri towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (7.2 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Louisiana’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Louisiana’s own rate (6.2) 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.
Louisiana and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | B | 1.9 | 8.4 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Missouri towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | B | 1.9 | 8.4 |
| Oronogo | A | 1.0 | 2.8 |
| Ava | B+ | 1.2 | 6.0 |
| Byrnes Mill | C+ | 4.9 | 4.9 |
| Sugar Creek | D | 3.0 | 32.5 |
| Cassville | D | 3.8 | 49.5 |
The five graded Missouri towns closest to Louisiana’s population (3,208), 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 Louisiana. 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 Louisiana’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (3,253 in 2025); our figure for Louisiana is 3,208 (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 Louisiana
Is Louisiana, MO safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Louisiana reports less crime per resident than 56% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #49 of 172 in Missouri. Its police reported 1.9 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.8 in the rest of Missouri and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Louisiana?
1.9 violent and 8.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Missouri reports 5.8 and 26.2; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Louisiana?
Louisiana’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Louisiana”. 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.