County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Bienville County, LA
Bienville County (12,981 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Louisiana. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Bienville County, LA reported 208 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bienville County, LA agencies reported 27 violent and 79 property offenses. That equals about 208 violent and 609 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
27 violent offenses
208/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Bienville County, LA
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Bienville County reported 27 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 12,981. 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 269.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 208.0 in 2024 (-22.9%). The highest observed value was 323.5 in 2022 and the lowest 208.0 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Bienville County sits mid-pack among comparable Louisiana counties
At 208.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bienville County ranks 32 of 52 — above 20 of the 51 other Louisiana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -15.7% against the cohort median of 246.6. Counties 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 25.5% of the 106 Part I offenses reported in Bienville County for 2024, against a median of 22.4% across comparable Louisiana counties — a gap of 3.1 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.
Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Bienville County's crime figures on this page originate from Bienville Parish Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Counties in Louisiana
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Louisiana counties closest to Bienville County in population. Their populations run from 10,920 to 15,031, against 12,981 here. Or launch the
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.
County Table 10 totals are voluntary agency filings: incomplete coverage is not a county crime measure, and a countywide figure is not a neighbourhood verdict.