Kenner, LA has a C safety grade (41/100) with a violent crime rate of 345 per 100,000, 2% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 62,377 residents, Kenner 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.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Kenner, LA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 2% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Kenner, LA shows violent crime at 344.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,832.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 2% below 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 Kenner's 344.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Zachary (332.6), Gonzales (364.7), Haynesville (367.6), Sulphur (375.8). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 268.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 344.7 in 2024 (+28.4%). The highest observed value was 450.2 in 2022 and the lowest 268.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 10.8% of the 1,982 Part I offenses reported in Kenner for 2024, against a median of 18.6% across comparable Louisiana cities — a gap of 7.8 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 344.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Kenner ranks 42 of 66 — above 24 of the 65 other Louisiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -19.2% 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 Kenner'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.
Across 14.9 Census sq mi, Kenner logged 118.7 property and 14.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Kenner's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 1,982 offenses; mix index 5,236).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Kenner offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (14.9 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 | 1,767 | 2832.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,400 | 2244.4 |
| Burglary | 193 | 309.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 174 | 278.9 |
| Arson | 3 | 4.8 |
| Violent Crime | 215 | 344.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 169 | 270.9 |
| Rape | 21 | 33.7 |
| Robbery | 19 | 30.5 |
| Murder | 6 | 9.6 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 66,308 | 268.4 | 2698 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 66,250 | 406 | 2356.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 64,419 | 450.2 | 3024 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 62,892 | 330.7 | 3240.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 62,377 | 344.7 | 2832.8 |
Kenner Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Kenner's 1,982 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Louisiana cities closest to Kenner in population. Their populations run from 20,142 to 77,982, against 62,377 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Kenner sits at 344.7/100K violent (grade C); the Louisiana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Kenner at 344.7/100K violent and 2,832.8/100K property - matched below outside Louisiana (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
344.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,832.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+4.2% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Kenner reported 215 violent crimes and 1,767 property crimes, for a total of 1,982 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Kenner's violent crime rate increased by 4.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 12.6%.
The most common crime type in Kenner is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.6% of all reported crimes (1,400 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Kenner'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.
Large-city rate methodology for how Kenner's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Kenner, LA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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