Winnfield, LA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 268% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Winnfield, LA shows violent crime at 1,294.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,660.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 268% 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
1294.7/100K violent
4660.8/100K property
+268% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Winnfield, LA
Comparable rate records
Winnfield's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Louisiana cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Winnfield's 1294.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Port Allen (1312.6), Shreveport (1228.5), Opelousas (1369.3), Plaquemine (1215.2). 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
Winnfield reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Louisiana cities
At 1294.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Winnfield ranks 11 of 66 — above 55 of the 65 other Louisiana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +205.4% 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 1047.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1294.7 in 2024 (+23.6%). The highest observed value was 1294.7 in 2024 and the lowest 0.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 87.2% of reported property offenses in Winnfield, against a cohort median of 76.6%. The remainder is burglary (17) and motor vehicle theft (6). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 21.7% of the 230 Part I offenses reported in Winnfield for 2024, against a median of 18.4% across comparable Louisiana cities — a gap of 3.4 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.
Property counts dominate Winnfield'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.
Winnfield's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 3.6 Census sq mi, Winnfield logged 49.4 property and 13.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Winnfield's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 230 offenses; mix index 5,019).
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+71.3%
755.6 → 1294.7/100K
Property Crime Rate
+73.7%
2683.7 → 4660.8/100K
Property offenses lead Winnfield's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs LA
Property Crime
180
4660.8
1711
1772.7
Larceny-Theft
157
4065.3
-
-
Burglary
17
440.2
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
6
155.4
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
50
1294.7
352
410
Aggravated Assault
39
1009.8
-
-
Robbery
6
155.4
-
-
Rape
4
103.6
-
-
Murder
1
25.9
-
-
Winnfield Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Winnfield 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
Winnfield Police Department
Reporting agency for Winnfield NIBRS-participating
Winnfield Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Winnfield's 230 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 Winnfield in population. Their populations run from 3,075 to 4,571, against 3,862 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Winnfield reported 50 violent crimes and 180 property crimes, for a total of 230 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Winnfield?
From 2023 to 2024, Winnfield's violent crime rate increased by 71.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 73.7%.
What is the most common crime in Winnfield?
The most common crime type in Winnfield is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.3% of all reported crimes (157 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Winnfield 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 Winnfield, LA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.