Bastrop, LA has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1422 per 100,000, 304% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Bastrop is a small municipal reporter (8,792 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with LA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Bastrop, LA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 304% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bastrop, LA shows violent crime at 1,421.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,833.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 304% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 1421.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bastrop ranks 8 of 66 — above 58 of the 65 other Louisiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +235.4% against the cohort median of 423.9. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bastrop's 1421.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Iowa (1429.0), Opelousas (1369.3), Port Allen (1312.6), Winnfield (1294.7). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 22.7% of the 550 Part I offenses reported in Bastrop for 2024, against a median of 18.4% across comparable Louisiana cities — a gap of 4.4 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 68.5% of reported property offenses in Bastrop, against a cohort median of 77.3%. The remainder is burglary (118) and motor vehicle theft (16). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Bastrop's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 8.6 Census sq mi, Bastrop logged 49.7 property and 14.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bastrop leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,730.
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Bastrop offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 425 | 4833.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 291 | 3309.8 |
| Burglary | 118 | 1342.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 16 | 182 |
| Arson | 6 | 68.2 |
| Violent Crime | 125 | 1421.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 118 | 1342.1 |
| Robbery | 3 | 34.1 |
| Murder | 2 | 22.7 |
| Rape | 2 | 22.7 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 9,889 | 0 | 121.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 9,543 | 1362.3 | 6486.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 9,291 | 1194.7 | 4606.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,959 | 747.9 | 4263.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,792 | 1421.7 | 4833.9 |
Bastrop Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bastrop's 550 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Louisiana cities closest to Bastrop in population. Their populations run from 7,784 to 10,252, against 8,792 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Bastrop sits at 1,421.7/100K violent (grade F); the Louisiana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Bastrop reported 125 violent crimes and 425 property crimes, for a total of 550 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Bastrop's violent crime rate increased by 90.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 13.4%.
The most common crime type in Bastrop is larceny-theft, accounting for 52.9% of all reported crimes (291 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Bastrop is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Bastrop's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bastrop, LA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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