Morgan City, LA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 57% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Morgan City, LA shows violent crime at 551.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,831.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 57% 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
551.4/100K violent
2831.5/100K property
+57% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Morgan City, LA
Comparable rate records
Morgan City's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Louisiana cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Morgan City's 551.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lake Charles (613.0), Tallulah (461.2), Krotz Springs (453.0), Ponchatoula (449.6). 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 1002.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 551.4 in 2024 (-45.0%). The highest observed value was 1218.2 in 2021 and the lowest 551.4 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Morgan City sits mid-pack among comparable Louisiana cities
At 551.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Morgan City ranks 28 of 66 — above 38 of the 65 other Louisiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +30.1% 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.
Property counts dominate Morgan City'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.
Morgan City's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 6 Census sq mi, Morgan City logged 50.6 property and 9.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Morgan City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 362 offenses; mix index 4,474).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (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.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-33.9%
833.7 → 551.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
-16.2%
3380.7 → 2831.5/100K
Property offenses lead Morgan City's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs LA
Property Crime
303
2831.5
1711
1772.7
Larceny-Theft
231
2158.7
-
-
Burglary
50
467.2
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
22
205.6
-
-
Arson
2
18.7
-
-
Violent Crime
59
551.4
352
410
Aggravated Assault
47
439.2
-
-
Rape
7
65.4
-
-
Robbery
4
37.4
-
-
Murder
1
9.3
-
-
Morgan City Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Morgan City 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
Morgan City Police Department
Reporting agency for Morgan City NIBRS-participating
Morgan City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Morgan City's 362 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 Morgan City in population. Their populations run from 8,917 to 12,368, against 10,701 here. Or use our
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Morgan City at 551.4/100K violent and 2,831.5/100K property - matched below outside Louisiana (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Morgan City reported 59 violent crimes and 303 property crimes, for a total of 362 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Morgan City?
From 2023 to 2024, Morgan City's violent crime rate decreased by 33.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16.2%.
What is the most common crime in Morgan City?
The most common crime type in Morgan City is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.8% of all reported crimes (231 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Morgan City 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 Morgan City, LA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.