Scott, LA has a F safety grade (20/100) with a violent crime rate of 662 per 100,000, 88% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Scott is a small municipal reporter (8,917 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with LA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Scott, LA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 88% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Scott, LA shows violent crime at 661.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,637.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 88% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 92.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 661.7 in 2024 (+619.2%). The highest observed value was 661.7 in 2024 and the lowest 11.8 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Scott's 661.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Walker (703.3), Lake Charles (613.0), Morgan City (551.4), Minden (796.4). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 28.8% of the 205 Part I offenses reported in Scott for 2024, against a median of 18.4% across comparable Louisiana cities — a gap of 10.4 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 661.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Scott ranks 26 of 66 — above 40 of the 65 other Louisiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +56.1% 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 Scott'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.
Across 11.7 Census sq mi, Scott logged 12.4 property and 5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Scott leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,334.
Violent offenses are 29% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Scott offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (11.7 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 | 146 | 1637.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 102 | 1143.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 23 | 257.9 |
| Burglary | 21 | 235.5 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 59 | 661.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 51 | 571.9 |
| Rape | 6 | 67.3 |
| Murder | 1 | 11.2 |
| Robbery | 1 | 11.2 |
The chart omits 2021, 2022 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,696 | 92 | 2920.9 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 8,814 | - | - |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 8,111 | - | - |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,506 | 11.8 | 94.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,917 | 661.7 | 1637.3 |
Scott Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Scott's 205 reported offenses (3-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 Scott in population. Their populations run from 7,784 to 10,252, against 8,917 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Scott sits at 661.7/100K violent (grade F); the Louisiana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Scott reported 59 violent crimes and 146 property crimes, for a total of 205 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Scott's violent crime rate increased by 5507.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 1640%.
The most common crime type in Scott is larceny-theft, accounting for 49.8% of all reported crimes (102 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Scott 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.
Small-city rate methodology for how Scott's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Scott, LA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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