Jennings, LA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 186% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Jennings, LA shows violent crime at 1,007.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,347.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 186% 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
1007.6/100K violent
3347.8/100K property
+186% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Jennings, LA
Comparable rate records
Jennings's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Louisiana cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Jennings's 1007.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are New Iberia (1009.3), Lafayette (1066.1), Farmerville (1073.6), Bossier City (913.1). 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
Jennings sits mid-pack among comparable Louisiana cities
At 1007.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Jennings ranks 19 of 66 — above 47 of the 65 other Louisiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +137.7% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 23.1% of the 402 Part I offenses reported in Jennings for 2024, against a median of 18.4% across comparable Louisiana cities — a gap of 4.8 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 893.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1007.6 in 2024 (+12.8%). The highest observed value was 1105.1 in 2021 and the lowest 672.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Jennings'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.
Jennings's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 10.6 Census sq mi, Jennings logged 29.3 property and 8.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Jennings's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (57% of 402 offenses; mix index 4,064).
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-31.7%
4901.4 → 3347.8/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-0.4%
1011.9 → 1007.6/100K
Property offenses lead Jennings's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs LA
Property Crime
309
3347.8
1711
1772.7
Larceny-Theft
231
2502.7
-
-
Burglary
65
704.2
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
13
140.8
-
-
Arson
1
10.8
-
-
Violent Crime
93
1007.6
352
410
Aggravated Assault
89
964.2
-
-
Robbery
2
21.7
-
-
Murder
1
10.8
-
-
Rape
1
10.8
-
-
Jennings Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Jennings 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
Jennings Police Department
Reporting agency for Jennings NIBRS-participating
Jennings Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Jennings's 402 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 Jennings in population. Their populations run from 7,784 to 10,252, against 9,230 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Jennings reported 93 violent crimes and 309 property crimes, for a total of 402 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Jennings?
From 2023 to 2024, Jennings's violent crime rate decreased by 0.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 31.7%.
What is the most common crime in Jennings?
The most common crime type in Jennings is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.5% of all reported crimes (231 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Jennings 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Jennings, LA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.