County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led

East Baton Rouge County, LA

At 456,781 residents, East Baton Rouge County is a very large county in Louisiana. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).

Data updated 2026-09-05

5,063
Property offenses
433
Violent offenses
5,496
Total · 2024

East Baton Rouge County, LA reported 95 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, East Baton Rouge County, LA agencies reported 433 violent and 5,063 property offenses. That equals about 95 violent and 1108 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
  • 433 violent offenses
  • 95/100K violent rate

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for East Baton Rouge County, LA

Position in the state cohort

East Baton Rouge County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Louisiana counties

At 94.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, East Baton Rouge County ranks 44 of 52 — above 8 of the 51 other Louisiana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -61.6% 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

The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort

Violent offenses are 7.9% of the 5,496 Part I offenses reported in East Baton Rouge County for 2024, against a median of 22.9% across comparable Louisiana counties — a gap of 15.0 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.

2021–2024 direction

The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower

Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 142.7 per 100,000 in 2021 to 94.8 in 2024 (-33.6%). The highest observed value was 143.8 in 2022 and the lowest 94.8 in 2024. 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 75.4% of reported property offenses in East Baton Rouge County, against a cohort median of 66.7%. The remainder is burglary (706) and motor vehicle theft (540). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.

On a very large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.

Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · very large county

Category Count
Property Crime 5,063
Burglary 706
Larceny-Theft 3,817
Motor Vehicle Theft 540
Arson 6
Violent Crime 433
Murder 11
Rape 22
Robbery 47
Aggravated Assault 353

Reporting Agency

East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

East Baton Rouge County's crime figures on this page originate from East Baton Rouge 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 East Baton Rouge County in population. Their populations run from 216,785 to 440,781, against 456,781 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

Nationwide peers for East Baton Rouge County

Similar violent rate (~95/100K)

Similar property rate (~1,108/100K)

ZIP Codes in East Baton Rouge County

State atlas: Louisiana · Compare · Rankings

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.

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