Decision-support ranking comparing Louisiana cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.
Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.
| # | Place | Metric | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexandria Violent Crime has increased 41% since 2021. |
22.6 / 1k | → |
| 2 | Monroe Violent Crime has declined 29% since 2021. |
15.8 / 1k | → |
| 3 | Shreveport Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend. |
10.9 / 1k | → |
| 4 | Hammond Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period. |
10.7 / 1k | → |
| 5 | West Monroe Violent Crime has declined 43% since 2021. |
9.5 / 1k | → |
| 6 | Lafayette Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend. |
9.3 / 1k | → |
| 7 | Bossier City Violent Crime has declined 2% since 2021. |
8.4 / 1k | → |
| 8 | Walker Violent Crime has increased 9% since 2021. |
5.9 / 1k | → |
| 9 | Lake Charles Violent Crime has increased 22% since 2021. |
5.5 / 1k | → |
| 10 | Gretna Violent Crime has declined 28% since 2021. |
4.6 / 1k | → |
| 11 | Houma Violent Crime has declined 37% since 2021. |
4.5 / 1k | → |
| 12 | Ruston Violent Crime has declined 22% since 2021. |
4.2 / 1k | → |
| 13 | Westwego Violent Crime has declined 35% since 2021. |
4.2 / 1k | → |
| 14 | Baker Violent Crime moved up by 4.0 / 1k from 0.0 / 1k in 2021 to 4.0 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
4.0 / 1k | → |
| 15 | Ponchatoula Violent Crime has declined 22% since 2021. |
4.0 / 1k | → |
| 16 | Gonzales Violent Crime has declined 27% since 2021. |
3.8 / 1k | → |
| 17 | Kenner Violent Crime has declined 10% since 2021. |
3.5 / 1k | → |
| 18 | Zachary Violent Crime has declined 28% since 2021. |
3.3 / 1k | → |
| 19 | Jefferson Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021. |
3.2 / 1k | → |
| 20 | Sulphur Violent Crime has increased 7% since 2021. |
3.0 / 1k | → |
| 21 | Thibodaux Violent Crime has declined 36% since 2021. |
2.8 / 1k | → |
| 22 | Baton Rouge Violent Crime has declined 76% since 2021. |
2.7 / 1k | → |
| 23 | Westlake Violent Crime has increased 62% since 2021. |
2.6 / 1k | → |
| 24 | Slidell Violent Crime has declined 14% since 2021. |
2.4 / 1k | → |
| 25 | Broussard Violent Crime has declined 11% since 2021. |
1.6 / 1k | → |
This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Louisiana cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.
A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.