La Porte, IN carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 41% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, La Porte, IN shows violent crime at 208.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,639.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 41% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
208.8/100K violent
1639.2/100K property
-41% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for La Porte, IN
Comparable rate records
La Porte's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Indiana cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to La Porte's 208.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Whitestown (205.7), Kendallville (205.3), New Haven (205.0), Nappanee (204.5). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 334.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 208.8 in 2024 (-37.6%). The highest observed value was 334.7 in 2020 and the lowest 205.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 68.0% of reported property offenses in La Porte, against a cohort median of 82.0%. The remainder is burglary (90) and motor vehicle theft (28). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
La Porte sits mid-pack among comparable Indiana cities
At 208.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, La Porte ranks 45 of 113 — above 68 of the 112 other Indiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +34.5% against the cohort median of 155.3. 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 La Porte'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.
La Porte's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 12.7 Census sq mi, La Porte logged 29.2 property and 3.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
La Porte's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 416 offenses; mix index 4,226).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (12.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-11.3%
235.4 → 208.8/100K
Property Crime Rate
+9.7%
1494 → 1639.2/100K
Property offenses lead La Porte's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs IN
Property Crime
369
1639.2
1321
Larceny-Theft
251
1115
-
Burglary
90
399.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
28
124.4
-
Arson
2
8.9
-
Violent Crime
47
208.8
308.5
Aggravated Assault
34
151
-
Rape
8
35.5
-
Robbery
5
22.2
-
Murder
0
0
-
La Porte Crime Trend (2020-2024)
La Porte property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
La Porte Police Department
Reporting agency for La Porte NIBRS-participating
La Porte Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind La Porte's 416 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 Indiana
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Indiana cities closest to La Porte in population. Their populations run from 20,773 to 25,662, against 22,511 here. Or use our
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In 2024, La Porte reported 47 violent crimes and 369 property crimes, for a total of 416 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in La Porte?
From 2023 to 2024, La Porte's violent crime rate decreased by 11.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 9.7%.
What is the most common crime in La Porte?
The most common crime type in La Porte is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.3% of all reported crimes (251 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: La Porte 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 La Porte, IN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.