County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
At 440,781 residents, Jefferson 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
Jefferson County, LA reported 229 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Jefferson County, LA agencies reported 1,007 violent and 7,139 property offenses. That equals about 229 violent and 1620 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 12.4% of the 8,146 Part I offenses reported in Jefferson County for 2024, against a median of 22.9% across comparable Louisiana counties — a gap of 10.5 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.
Share of the state cohort
The 8,146 Part I offenses reported here are 18.3% of the 44,570 reported across all 52 comparable Louisiana counties in 2024. A county this large moves the statewide total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 440,781 rather than as a uniform shift.
2021–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 286.5 per 100,000 in 2021 to 228.5 in 2024 (-20.3%). The highest observed value was 307.9 in 2022 and the lowest 228.5 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
At 228.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Jefferson County ranks 29 of 52 — above 23 of the 51 other Louisiana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -7.4% 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.
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.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 7,139 |
| Burglary | 1,093 |
| Larceny-Theft | 5,224 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 822 |
| Arson | 38 |
| Violent Crime | 1,007 |
| Murder | 21 |
| Rape | 70 |
| Robbery | 184 |
| Aggravated Assault | 732 |
Jefferson County's crime figures on this page originate from Jefferson 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.
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Louisiana counties closest to Jefferson County in population. Their populations run from 216,785 to 456,781, against 440,781 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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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.
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Put this to use
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