Minden, LA has a F safety grade (8/100) with a violent crime rate of 796 per 100,000, 126% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Minden (11,050 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then LA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Minden, LA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 126% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Minden, LA shows violent crime at 796.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,533.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 126% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Minden's 796.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Church Point (803.6), Vinton (863.5), Walker (703.3), Natchitoches (891.1). 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
At 796.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Minden ranks 24 of 66 — above 42 of the 65 other Louisiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +87.9% 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 are 23.9% of the 368 Part I offenses reported in Minden for 2024, against a median of 18.4% across comparable Louisiana cities — a gap of 5.6 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.
Property counts dominate Minden'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.
Across 15 Census sq mi, Minden logged 18.6 property and 5.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Minden leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,605.
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Minden offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (15 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 | 280 | 2533.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 196 | 1773.8 |
| Burglary | 70 | 633.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 14 | 126.7 |
| Arson | 1 | 9 |
| Violent Crime | 88 | 796.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 72 | 651.6 |
| Robbery | 10 | 90.5 |
| Murder | 3 | 27.1 |
| Rape | 3 | 27.1 |
The chart omits 2021, 2022, 2023 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 2 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 11,711 | 990.5 | 2834.9 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 11,436 | - | - |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 11,519 | - | - |
| 2023 | Insufficient reporting | 11,171 | - | - |
| 2024 | Comparable | 11,050 | 796.4 | 2533.9 |
Minden Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Minden's 368 reported offenses (2-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 Minden in population. Their populations run from 9,230 to 13,053, against 11,050 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Minden sits at 796.4/100K violent (grade F); the Louisiana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Minden at 796.4/100K violent and 2,533.9/100K property - matched below outside Louisiana (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
796.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,533.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Minden reported 88 violent crimes and 280 property crimes, for a total of 368 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Minden is larceny-theft, accounting for 53.3% of all reported crimes (196 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Minden 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Minden's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Minden, LA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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