County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
At 160,368 residents, Ouachita County is a 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
Ouachita County, LA reported 298 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Ouachita County, LA agencies reported 478 violent and 2,157 property offenses. That equals about 298 violent and 1345 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 491.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 298.1 in 2024 (-39.3%). The highest observed value was 491.4 in 2020 and the lowest 298.1 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 298.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Ouachita County ranks 13 of 52 — above 39 of the 51 other Louisiana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +26.1% 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 are 18.1% of the 2,635 Part I offenses reported in Ouachita County for 2024, against a median of 22.9% across comparable Louisiana counties — a gap of 4.7 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.
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.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 2,157 |
| Burglary | 551 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,341 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 265 |
| Arson | 4 |
| Violent Crime | 478 |
| Murder | 0 |
| Rape | 34 |
| Robbery | 32 |
| Aggravated Assault | 412 |
Ouachita County's crime figures on this page originate from Ouachita 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 Ouachita County in population. Their populations run from 126,500 to 142,282, against 160,368 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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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.
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