Shreveport, LA has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1229 per 100,000, 249% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Shreveport, LA Crime Rate & Safety
At 175,092 residents, Shreveport is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against LA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Shreveport, LA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 249% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Shreveport, LA shows violent crime at 1,228.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,990.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 249% 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
1228.5/100K violent
3990.5/100K property
+249% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Shreveport, LA
Comparable rate records
Shreveport's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Louisiana cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Shreveport's 1228.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Plaquemine (1215.2), Winnfield (1294.7), West Monroe (1156.2), Port Allen (1312.6). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Shreveport reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Louisiana cities
At 1228.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Shreveport ranks 12 of 66 — above 54 of the 65 other Louisiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +189.8% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 923.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1228.5 in 2024 (+33.1%). The highest observed value was 1228.5 in 2024 and the lowest 811.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Share of the state cohort
Shreveport carries a large share of the reporting cohort’s total offenses
The 9,138 Part I offenses reported here are 20.0% of the 45,713 reported across all 66 comparable Louisiana cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 175,092 rather than as a uniform shift.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 23.5% of the 9,138 Part I offenses reported in Shreveport for 2024, against a median of 18.4% across comparable Louisiana cities — a gap of 5.2 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 65.9% of reported property offenses in Shreveport, against a cohort median of 77.3%. The remainder is burglary (1,368) and motor vehicle theft (1,016). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Shreveport'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Shreveport's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 108.2 Census sq mi, Shreveport logged 64.6 property and 19.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Shreveport leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,286.
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (108.2 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 rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+25.3%
3184.7 → 3990.5/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+6.6%
1152.6 → 1228.5/100K
Property offenses lead Shreveport's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs LA
Property Crime
6,987
3990.5
1711
1772.7
Larceny-Theft
4,603
2628.9
-
-
Burglary
1,368
781.3
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
1,016
580.3
-
-
Arson
25
14.3
-
-
Violent Crime
2,151
1228.5
352
410
Aggravated Assault
1,818
1038.3
-
-
Rape
146
83.4
-
-
Robbery
140
80
-
-
Murder
47
26.8
-
-
Shreveport Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Shreveport 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
Shreveport Police Department
Reporting agency for Shreveport NIBRS-participating
Shreveport Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Shreveport's 9,138 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 Shreveport in population. Their populations run from 26,653 to 121,471, against 175,092 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Shreveport reported 2,151 violent crimes and 6,987 property crimes, for a total of 9,138 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Shreveport?
From 2023 to 2024, Shreveport's violent crime rate increased by 6.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 25.3%.
What is the most common crime in Shreveport?
The most common crime type in Shreveport is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.4% of all reported crimes (4,603 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Shreveport's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Shreveport, LA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.