County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
St. James County, LA
St. James County (20,192 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. James County, LA reported 272 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, St. James County, LA agencies reported 55 violent and 191 property offenses. That equals about 272 violent and 946 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
55 violent offenses
272/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for St. James County, LA
Position in the state cohort
St. James County sits mid-pack among comparable Louisiana counties
At 272.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, St. James County ranks 18 of 52 — above 34 of the 51 other Louisiana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +15.2% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 77.0% of reported property offenses in St. James County, against a cohort median of 66.7%. The remainder is burglary (28) and motor vehicle theft (16). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 282.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 272.4 in 2024 (-3.5%). The highest observed value was 529.9 in 2021 and the lowest 272.4 in 2024. 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
Category
Count
Property Crime
191
Burglary
28
Larceny-Theft
147
Motor Vehicle Theft
16
Arson
2
Violent Crime
55
Murder
2
Rape
2
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
50
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.