Plain Dealing, LA has a D safety grade (25/100) with a violent crime rate of 3093 per 100,000, 779% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Plain Dealing's UCR row covers a small municipal population (873). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to LA and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Plain Dealing, LA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 779% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Plain Dealing, LA shows violent crime at 3,092.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 572.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 779% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 106.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 3092.8 in 2024 (+2794.8%). The highest observed value was 3092.8 in 2024 and the lowest 106.8 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 84.4% of the 32 Part I offenses reported in Plain Dealing for 2024, against a median of 18.4% across comparable Louisiana cities — a gap of 66.0 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 3092.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Plain Dealing ranks 1 of 66 — above 65 of the 65 other Louisiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +629.6% 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.
Small-count caution
Plain Dealing reported 27 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 873. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Plain Dealing's 3092.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Alexandria (2713.5), Monroe (1892.4), Marksville (1848.0), White Castle (1576.3). 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.
Violent counts are the sharper signal on Plain Dealing's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 27 reported violent incidents in a population of 873. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 1.6 Census sq mi, Plain Dealing logged 3.2 property and 17.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Plain Dealing's 2024 book concentrates in aggravated assault (84% of 32 offenses; mix index 7,285).
Violent offenses are 84% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
Plain Dealing offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 27 | 3092.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 27 | 3092.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 5 | 572.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 4 | 458.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 114.5 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
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 | 936 | 106.8 | 427.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 927 | 107.9 | 431.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 888 | 563.1 | 675.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 868 | 691.2 | 921.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 873 | 3092.8 | 572.7 |
Plain Dealing Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Plain Dealing's 32 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 Plain Dealing in population. Their populations run from 204 to 1,604, against 873 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Plain Dealing sits at 3,092.8/100K violent (grade D); the Louisiana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Plain Dealing reported 27 violent crimes and 5 property crimes, for a total of 32 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Plain Dealing's violent crime rate increased by 347.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 37.9%.
The most common crime type in Plain Dealing is aggravated assault, accounting for 84.4% of all reported crimes (27 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Plain Dealing's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Plain Dealing's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Plain Dealing, LA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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