County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Franklin County, LA
Franklin County (19,774 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Louisiana. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Franklin County, LA reported 303 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Franklin County, LA agencies reported 60 violent and 114 property offenses. That equals about 303 violent and 577 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
60 violent offenses
303/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Franklin County, LA
Position in the state cohort
Franklin County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Louisiana counties
At 303.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Franklin County ranks 12 of 52 — above 40 of the 51 other Louisiana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +28.4% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 34.5% of the 174 Part I offenses reported in Franklin County for 2024, against a median of 22.4% across comparable Louisiana counties — a gap of 12.1 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 257.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 303.4 in 2024 (+17.6%). The highest observed value was 591.7 in 2023 and the lowest 257.9 in 2020. 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 77.2% of reported property offenses in Franklin County, against a cohort median of 66.7%. The remainder is burglary (11) and motor vehicle theft (15). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
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
Category
Count
Property Crime
114
Burglary
11
Larceny-Theft
88
Motor Vehicle Theft
15
Arson
0
Violent Crime
60
Murder
2
Rape
2
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
56
Reporting Agency
Franklin Parish Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Franklin County's crime figures on this page originate from Franklin 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
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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.