County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Plaquemines County, LA
Plaquemines County (23,515 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Louisiana. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Plaquemines County, LA reported 340 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Plaquemines County, LA agencies reported 80 violent and 113 property offenses. That equals about 340 violent and 481 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
80 violent offenses
340/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Plaquemines County, LA
Position in the state cohort
Plaquemines County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Louisiana counties
At 340.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Plaquemines County ranks 7 of 52 — above 45 of the 51 other Louisiana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +43.9% 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 41.5% of the 193 Part I offenses reported in Plaquemines County for 2024, against a median of 22.4% across comparable Louisiana counties — a gap of 19.1 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 255.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 340.2 in 2024 (+33.3%). The highest observed value was 408.3 in 2023 and the lowest 255.2 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
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
Plaquemines County's crime figures on this page originate from Plaquemines 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 Plaquemines County in population. Their populations run from 20,192 to 27,199, against 23,515 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.