County crime profile · 2024 · small county · property-led
Tensas County, LA
Tensas County is a small county (4,147 people) in Louisiana. FBI Table 10 county totals lead; rates appear only with a verified Census population join.
Tensas County, LA reported 651 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Tensas County, LA agencies reported 27 violent and 46 property offenses. That equals about 651 violent and 1109 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
27 violent offenses
651/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Tensas County, LA
Position in the state cohort
Tensas County reported the highest violent-crime rate among comparable Louisiana counties
At 651.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Tensas County ranks 1 of 52 — above 51 of the 51 other Louisiana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +175.5% 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.
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Tensas County reported 27 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,147. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 37.0% of the 73 Part I offenses reported in Tensas County for 2024, against a median of 22.4% across comparable Louisiana counties — a gap of 14.6 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.
Small-county UCR rows are especially sensitive to which agencies filed. Per-100,000 rates use a matched 2020 Census population when available; otherwise counts only. Do not treat the county total as a town-level crime level.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · small county
Tensas County's crime figures on this page originate from Tensas 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 Tensas County in population. Their populations run from 5,617 to 9,751, against 4,147 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.