Plaquemine, LA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 245% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Plaquemine, LA shows violent crime at 1,215.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,291.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 245% 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
1215.2/100K violent
3291.1/100K property
+245% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Plaquemine, LA
Comparable rate records
Plaquemine's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Louisiana cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Plaquemine's 1215.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Shreveport (1228.5), West Monroe (1156.2), Winnfield (1294.7), Bogalusa (1131.5). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Plaquemine reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Louisiana cities
At 1215.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Plaquemine ranks 13 of 66 — above 53 of the 65 other Louisiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +186.7% 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 27.0% of the 267 Part I offenses reported in Plaquemine for 2024, against a median of 18.4% across comparable Louisiana cities — a gap of 8.6 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 Plaquemine'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Plaquemine's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 2.9 Census sq mi, Plaquemine logged 66.7 property and 24.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Plaquemine leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,619.
Violent offenses are 27% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.9 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
+20%
1012.7 → 1215.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
+9.6%
3003.8 → 3291.1/100K
Property offenses lead Plaquemine's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs LA
Property Crime
195
3291.1
1711
1772.7
Larceny-Theft
140
2362.9
-
-
Burglary
46
776.4
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
9
151.9
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
72
1215.2
352
410
Aggravated Assault
63
1063.3
-
-
Robbery
5
84.4
-
-
Murder
2
33.8
-
-
Rape
2
33.8
-
-
Plaquemine Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Plaquemine property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Plaquemine Police Department
Reporting agency for Plaquemine NIBRS-participating
Plaquemine Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Plaquemine's 267 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
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In 2024, Plaquemine reported 72 violent crimes and 195 property crimes, for a total of 267 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Plaquemine?
From 2023 to 2024, Plaquemine's violent crime rate increased by 20%, and the property crime rate increased by 9.6%.
What is the most common crime in Plaquemine?
The most common crime type in Plaquemine is larceny-theft, accounting for 52.4% of all reported crimes (140 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Plaquemine is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Plaquemine, LA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.