Haynesville, LA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 4% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Haynesville, LA shows violent crime at 367.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,102.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 4% 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.
C safety grade
367.6/100K violent
1102.9/100K property
+4% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Haynesville, LA
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Haynesville reported 7 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,904. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
Haynesville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Louisiana cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Haynesville's 367.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Gonzales (364.7), Sulphur (375.8), Greenwood (390.2), Kenner (344.7). 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 38.1% of reported property offenses in Haynesville, against a cohort median of 77.3%. The remainder is burglary (12) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 25.0% of the 28 Part I offenses reported in Haynesville for 2024, against a median of 18.4% across comparable Louisiana cities — a gap of 6.6 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.
Position in the state cohort
Haynesville sits mid-pack among comparable Louisiana cities
At 367.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Haynesville ranks 40 of 66 — above 26 of the 65 other Louisiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -13.9% 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 Haynesville'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.
Based on 7 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,904. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Haynesville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 4.8 Census sq mi, Haynesville logged 4.3 property and 1.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Haynesville leans on burglary at 43% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,138.
Violent offenses are 25% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.8 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
-24.6%
1463.7 → 1102.9/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-12.1%
418.2 → 367.6/100K
Property offenses lead Haynesville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs LA
vs US avg
Property Crime
21
1102.9
1772.7
1711
Burglary
12
630.3
-
-
Larceny-Theft
8
420.2
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
1
52.5
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
7
367.6
410
352
Aggravated Assault
6
315.1
-
-
Rape
1
52.5
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Robbery
0
0
-
-
Haynesville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Haynesville property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Haynesville Police Department
Reporting agency for Haynesville NIBRS-participating
Haynesville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Haynesville's 28 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 Haynesville in population. Their populations run from 1,304 to 2,698, against 1,904 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Haynesville reported 7 violent crimes and 21 property crimes, for a total of 28 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Haynesville?
From 2023 to 2024, Haynesville's violent crime rate decreased by 12.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 24.6%.
What is the most common crime in Haynesville?
The most common crime type in Haynesville is burglary, accounting for 42.9% of all reported crimes (12 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Haynesville's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Haynesville, LA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.