Bossier City, LA has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 913 per 100,000, 159% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Bossier City, LA Crime Rate & Safety
At 62,750 residents, Bossier City is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against LA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Bossier City, LA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 159% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bossier City, LA shows violent crime at 913.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,679.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 159% 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.
F safety grade
913.1/100K violent
3679.7/100K property
+159% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Bossier City, LA
Comparable rate records
Bossier City's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Louisiana cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bossier City's 913.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Natchitoches (891.1), Vinton (863.5), Jennings (1007.6), New Iberia (1009.3). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Bossier City sits mid-pack among comparable Louisiana cities
At 913.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bossier City ranks 20 of 66 — above 46 of the 65 other Louisiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +115.4% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 879.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 913.1 in 2024 (+3.8%). The highest observed value was 1008.3 in 2022 and the lowest 879.9 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Bossier City'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Bossier City's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 44.4 Census sq mi, Bossier City logged 52 property and 12.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bossier City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 2,882 offenses; mix index 4,203).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (44.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-20.1%
4605.3 → 3679.7/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-0.2%
915.3 → 913.1/100K
Property offenses lead Bossier City's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs LA
Property Crime
2,309
3679.7
1711
1772.7
Larceny-Theft
1,762
2808
-
-
Burglary
302
481.3
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
245
390.4
-
-
Arson
8
12.7
-
-
Violent Crime
573
913.1
352
410
Aggravated Assault
481
766.5
-
-
Rape
48
76.5
-
-
Robbery
37
59
-
-
Murder
7
11.2
-
-
Bossier City Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Bossier City property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Bossier City Police Department
Reporting agency for Bossier City NIBRS-participating
Bossier City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bossier City's 2,882 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Louisiana
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Louisiana cities closest to Bossier City in population. Their populations run from 20,142 to 77,982, against 62,750 here. Or use our
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Bossier City at 913.1/100K violent and 3,679.7/100K property - matched below outside Louisiana (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Bossier City reported 573 violent crimes and 2,309 property crimes, for a total of 2,882 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Bossier City?
From 2023 to 2024, Bossier City's violent crime rate decreased by 0.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 20.1%.
What is the most common crime in Bossier City?
The most common crime type in Bossier City is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.1% of all reported crimes (1,762 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Bossier City's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bossier City, LA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.