Crime Rate in Baton Rouge (2024)
Baton Rouge is covered at the neighborhood level: its police department publishes incident data by Baton Rouge neighborhood, so instead of a single city-wide score we rank all 48 Baton Rouge neighborhoods by reported crime, from Baton Rouge's own open data.
Volume, not a per-person rate. Baton Rouge neighborhood resident population is not reliably available for a per-100k rate, so no safety grade is published for any zone (see /crime-rate/methodology §6.6). The geographic unit is the Baton Rouge neighborhood (a policing/analysis boundary, not a resident-population neighborhood). relativeIndex ranks each zone by its VIOLENCE-WEIGHTED reported-incident volume (violent incidents weighted 3x property) against the other Baton Rouge zones — it is NOT population-adjusted and must not be read as a safety rate. Offenses are grouped into three coarse buckets (violent / property / other) via a keyword classifier.
Safest & most dangerous neighborhoods
Reported crime in Baton Rouge varies sharply by Baton Rouge neighborhood. Top 5 each — see the full rankings for all 48.
Safest Baton Rouge neighborhoods
- Jefferson / Tiger Bend100/100
- Kenilworth100/100
- Monticello100/100
- City Park98/100
- University Acres / Woodstone97/100
Most dangerous Baton Rouge neighborhoods
- North Baton Rouge0/100
- Scotlandville18/100
- Brookstown28/100
- Old South Baton Rouge41/100
- North Sherwood Forest50/100
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No area has zero risk
A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2024. See the full methodology →