Carencro, LA has a C safety grade (41/100) with a violent crime rate of 415 per 100,000, 18% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Carencro (13,985 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then LA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Carencro, LA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 18% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Carencro, LA shows violent crime at 414.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,023.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 18% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Carencro's 414.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Westwego (423.9), Ruston (426.8), Baker (402.2), Gretna (428.9). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 67.8% of reported property offenses in Carencro, against a cohort median of 77.3%. The remainder is burglary (78) and motor vehicle theft (13). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 414.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Carencro ranks 35 of 66 — above 31 of the 65 other Louisiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -2.8% against the cohort median of 426.8. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Carencro'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 7.9 Census sq mi, Carencro logged 36 property and 7.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Carencro leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,960.
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Carencro offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.9 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 | 283 | 2023.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 192 | 1372.9 |
| Burglary | 78 | 557.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 13 | 93 |
| Arson | 1 | 7.2 |
| Violent Crime | 58 | 414.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 54 | 386.1 |
| Robbery | 3 | 21.5 |
| Murder | 1 | 7.2 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021, 2022, 2023 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 2 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 9,668 | 175.8 | 2182.5 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 10,191 | - | - |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 12,505 | - | - |
| 2023 | Insufficient reporting | 14,205 | - | - |
| 2024 | Comparable | 13,985 | 414.7 | 2023.6 |
Carencro Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Carencro's 341 reported offenses (2-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Carencro in population. Their populations run from 11,641 to 15,562, against 13,985 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Carencro sits at 414.7/100K violent (grade C); the Louisiana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Carencro at 414.7/100K violent and 2,023.6/100K property - matched below outside Louisiana (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
414.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,023.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Carencro reported 58 violent crimes and 283 property crimes, for a total of 341 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Carencro is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.3% of all reported crimes (192 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Carencro figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Carencro's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Carencro, LA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Carencro is scored in the mid-size municipal band (13,985 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.