Louisiana's comparable FBI window (2014–2024, 11 years) shows declines on both major offense rates — charts below keep the larger |endpoint| move first.
Declining-window verdict
Louisiana's violent crime rate fell 20.7% from 2014 to 2024; its property crime rate fell 47.2%. The endpoints agree on the broad direction, but the intervening years still matter.
Full-window endpoints
Violent crime moved from 517.0 to 410.0 per 100,000 (-20.7%). Property crime moved from 3355.2 to 1772.7 (-47.2%). These are endpoint comparisons, not proof that every intervening year followed the same direction.
Peak and trough
The highest observed violent-crime rate was 604.8 in 2020; the lowest was 410.0 in 2024. The latest value lies 0% of the way from that low to that peak, which shows whether the endpoint is close to an extreme or near the middle of the observed range.
Year-to-year movement
The largest annual change ran from 2023 to 2024: -24.5%. Across the full sequence, 4 year-to-year steps rose by more than 1% and 5 fell by more than 1%. A single sharp step can reflect participation or reporting changes as well as a real change in recorded offenses.
Latest national comparison
For 2024, the state rate was 410.0 per 100,000 versus 352.0 across the state records in this dataset, a gap of 16.5% above. This is a state-level benchmark, not a neighborhood-safety conclusion.
Recent direction check
From 2021 to 2024, the violent-crime rate fell 31.6%, compared with -20.7% across the full 2014-2024 window. That difference is why the latest few observations should be read separately from the decade-scale endpoints.
Louisiana's property rate fell 27.3% (-664.9 per 100K) from 2023 to 2024 (2437.6 → 1772.7) — the sharpest comparable year-to-year step in this window. The largest move the other way was jumped 8.8% from 2021 to 2022 (2322.3 → 2527.1).
Louisiana's property gap vs the US aggregate moved from 33.1% above in 2014 to 3.6% above in 2024 (-29.5 pp).
| Year | Coverage | Population | Property | Rate | YoY | Violent | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,597,740 | 81,503 | 1772.7 | ↓ 27.3% | 18,853 | 410 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,573,749 | 111,488 | 2437.6 | ↓ 3.5% | 24,850 | 543.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 4,590,241 | 116,000 | 2527.1 | ↑ 8.8% | 26,410 | 575.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,624,047 | 107,385 | 2322.3 | ↓ 14.4% | 27,696 | 599 |
| 2020 | Comparable | 4,645,318 | 126,022 | 2712.9 | ↓ 11.4% | 28,093 | 604.8 |
| 2019 | Comparable | 4,648,794 | 142,359 | 3062.3 | ↓ 3.2% | 24,891 | 535.4 |
| 2018 | Comparable | 4,659,978 | 147,357 | 3162.2 | ↓ 3.5% | 24,279 | 521 |
| 2017 | Comparable | 4,684,333 | 153,574 | 3278.5 | ↑ 0.7% | 25,361 | 541.4 |
| 2016 | Comparable | 4,681,666 | 152,344 | 3254.1 | ↓ 2.1% | 26,141 | 558.4 |
| 2015 | Comparable | 4,670,724 | 155,259 | 3324.1 | ↓ 0.9% | 24,834 | 531.7 |
| 2014 | Comparable | 4,649,676 | 156,007 | 3355.2 | - | 24,037 | 517 |
More in Louisiana: overview, safest cities, most dangerous, compare. Methodology — FBI UCR / Crime Data Explorer rates per 100,000 for Louisiana (2014–2024); Census population where FBI denominators are missing.