New Iberia, LA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 187% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, New Iberia, LA shows violent crime at 1,009.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,125.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 187% 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
1009.3/100K violent
3125.4/100K property
+187% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for New Iberia, LA
Comparable rate records
New Iberia's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Louisiana cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to New Iberia's 1009.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Jennings (1007.6), 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
New Iberia sits mid-pack among comparable Louisiana cities
At 1009.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, New Iberia ranks 18 of 66 — above 48 of the 65 other Louisiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +138.1% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 24.4% of the 1,102 Part I offenses reported in New Iberia for 2024, against a median of 18.4% across comparable Louisiana cities — a gap of 6.1 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-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 64.3% of reported property offenses in New Iberia, against a cohort median of 77.3%. The remainder is burglary (203) and motor vehicle theft (94). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate New Iberia'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.
New Iberia's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 11.1 Census sq mi, New Iberia logged 74.8 property and 24.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
New Iberia leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,225.
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (11.1 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 offenses lead New Iberia's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs LA
Property Crime
833
3125.4
1711
1772.7
Larceny-Theft
536
2011
-
-
Burglary
203
761.6
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
94
352.7
-
-
Arson
2
7.5
-
-
Violent Crime
269
1009.3
352
410
Aggravated Assault
232
870.4
-
-
Robbery
18
67.5
-
-
Rape
10
37.5
-
-
Murder
9
33.8
-
-
New Iberia Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
New Iberia Police Department
Reporting agency for New Iberia NIBRS-participating
New Iberia Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind New Iberia's 1,102 reported offenses (1-year span 2024-2024).
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 New Iberia in population. Their populations run from 15,263 to 28,449, against 26,653 here. Or use our
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New Iberia at 1,009.3/100K violent and 3,125.4/100K property - matched below outside Louisiana (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, New Iberia reported 269 violent crimes and 833 property crimes, for a total of 1,102 reported offenses.
What is the most common crime in New Iberia?
The most common crime type in New Iberia is larceny-theft, accounting for 48.6% of all reported crimes (536 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: New Iberia 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 New Iberia, LA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.