County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
St. Helena County, LA
St. Helena County (10,920 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Louisiana. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
St. Helena County, LA reported 577 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, St. Helena County, LA agencies reported 63 violent and 149 property offenses. That equals about 577 violent and 1365 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
63 violent offenses
577/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for St. Helena County, LA
Position in the state cohort
St. Helena County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Louisiana counties
At 576.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, St. Helena County ranks 3 of 52 — above 49 of the 51 other Louisiana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +144.1% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 870.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 576.9 in 2024 (-33.7%). The highest observed value was 934.1 in 2023 and the lowest 384.6 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 29.7% of the 212 Part I offenses reported in St. Helena County for 2024, against a median of 22.4% across comparable Louisiana counties — a gap of 7.4 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 55.0% of reported property offenses in St. Helena County, against a cohort median of 67.2%. The remainder is burglary (32) and motor vehicle theft (35). 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
Category
Count
Property Crime
149
Burglary
32
Larceny-Theft
82
Motor Vehicle Theft
35
Arson
1
Violent Crime
63
Murder
2
Rape
3
Robbery
4
Aggravated Assault
54
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.