County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Lafayette County, LA
At 241,753 residents, Lafayette County is a large county in Louisiana. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Lafayette County, LA reported 91 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lafayette County, LA agencies reported 219 violent and 810 property offenses. That equals about 91 violent and 335 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
219 violent offenses
91/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Lafayette County, LA
Position in the state cohort
Lafayette County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Louisiana counties
At 90.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lafayette County ranks 45 of 52 — above 7 of the 51 other Louisiana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -63.3% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 85.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 90.6 in 2024 (+6.3%). The highest observed value was 110.4 in 2022 and the lowest 74.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a 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 · large county
Lafayette County's crime figures on this page originate from Lafayette 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.