County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Natchitoches County, LA
Natchitoches County (37,515 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Louisiana. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Natchitoches County, LA reported 192 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Natchitoches County, LA agencies reported 72 violent and 371 property offenses. That equals about 192 violent and 989 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
72 violent offenses
192/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Natchitoches County, LA
Position in the state cohort
Natchitoches County sits mid-pack among comparable Louisiana counties
At 191.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Natchitoches County ranks 35 of 52 — above 17 of the 51 other Louisiana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -22.2% 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 16.3% of the 443 Part I offenses reported in Natchitoches County for 2024, against a median of 22.9% across comparable Louisiana counties — a gap of 6.6 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 57.1% of reported property offenses in Natchitoches County, against a cohort median of 67.2%. The remainder is burglary (100) and motor vehicle theft (59). 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
Natchitoches County's crime figures on this page originate from Natchitoches 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 Natchitoches County in population. Their populations run from 32,250 to 42,477, against 37,515 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.