County crime profile · 2024 · small county · property-led
Caldwell County, LA
Caldwell County is a small county (9,645 people) in Louisiana. FBI Table 10 county totals lead; rates appear only with a verified Census population join.
Caldwell County, LA reported 404 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Caldwell County, LA agencies reported 39 violent and 80 property offenses. That equals about 404 violent and 829 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
39 violent offenses
404/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Caldwell County, LA
Position in the state cohort
Caldwell County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Louisiana counties
At 404.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Caldwell County ranks 6 of 52 — above 46 of the 51 other Louisiana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +71.1% against the cohort median of 236.4. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2022–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 829.4 per 100,000 in 2022 to 404.4 in 2024 (-51.2%). The highest observed value was 829.4 in 2022 and the lowest 404.4 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 32.8% of the 119 Part I offenses reported in Caldwell County for 2024, against a median of 22.4% across comparable Louisiana counties — 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.
Small-county UCR rows are especially sensitive to which agencies filed. Per-100,000 rates use a matched 2020 Census population when available; otherwise counts only. Do not treat the county total as a town-level crime level.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · small county
Caldwell County's crime figures on this page originate from Caldwell 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 Caldwell County in population. Their populations run from 7,459 to 10,920, against 9,645 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.