Church Point, LA has a F safety grade (22/100) with a violent crime rate of 804 per 100,000, 128% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Church Point is a small municipal reporter (3,982 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with LA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Church Point, LA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 128% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Church Point, LA shows violent crime at 803.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 879 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 128% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 392.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 803.6 in 2024 (+105.0%). The highest observed value was 803.6 in 2024 and the lowest 48.7 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 47.8% of the 67 Part I offenses reported in Church Point for 2024, against a median of 18.4% across comparable Louisiana cities — a gap of 29.4 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Church Point's 803.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Minden (796.4), Vinton (863.5), Natchitoches (891.1), Walker (703.3). 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
At 803.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Church Point ranks 23 of 66 — above 43 of the 65 other Louisiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +89.6% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 62.9% of reported property offenses in Church Point, against a cohort median of 77.3%. The remainder is burglary (5) and motor vehicle theft (8). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Church Point's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters 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 2.9 Census sq mi, Church Point logged 12.1 property and 11.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Church Point leans on aggravated assault at 46% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,419.
Violent offenses are 48% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Church Point offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.9 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 | 35 | 879 |
| Larceny-Theft | 22 | 552.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 8 | 200.9 |
| Burglary | 5 | 125.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 32 | 803.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 31 | 778.5 |
| Murder | 1 | 25.1 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2022 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 4,336 | 392.1 | 1476 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,344 | 138.1 | 598.5 |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 4,106 | - | - |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,021 | 373 | 795.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,982 | 803.6 | 879 |
Church Point Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Church Point's 67 reported offenses (4-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 Church Point in population. Their populations run from 3,260 to 4,762, against 3,982 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Church Point sits at 803.6/100K violent (grade F); the Louisiana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Church Point reported 32 violent crimes and 35 property crimes, for a total of 67 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Church Point's violent crime rate increased by 115.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 10.5%.
The most common crime type in Church Point is aggravated assault, accounting for 46.3% of all reported crimes (31 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Church Point 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 Church Point's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Church Point, LA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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