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Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in Baton Rouge (2024)

Baton Rouge's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these Baton Rouge neighborhoods are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The Baton Rouge neighborhoods at the top of this list have the most reported incidents relative to other Baton Rouge Baton Rouge neighborhoods.

Areas ranked
48
Baton Rouge neighborhoods
Safest
Jefferson / Tiger Bend
Most dangerous
North Baton Rouge

Volume, not a safety 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.

Ranked highest reported volume first

Not the same Baton Rouge neighborhoods as the safest neighborhoods in baton rouge list.

Showing the top 40 of 48 Baton Rouge neighborhoods.

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Most dangerous neighborhoods in Baton Rouge — FAQ

What is the most dangerous neighborhood in Baton Rouge?
By 2024 reported crime volume, North Baton Rouge ranks as the most dangerous Baton Rouge neighborhood in Baton Rouge in this data. See the full ranking above for how every Baton Rouge neighborhood compares.
How are Baton Rouge neighborhoods ranked?
Baton Rouge publishes crime by Baton Rouge neighborhood without a resident-population figure, so we rank by severity-weighted reported incident volume (violent incidents weighted more heavily than property) relative to other Baton Rouge Baton Rouge neighborhoods — not a per-100,000 rate. It shows where incidents concentrate, not per-person risk.
Does this predict how safe a specific street is?
No. This ranks whole Baton Rouge neighborhoods, which can contain very different blocks. Use it to compare areas at a glance, then look at street-level detail, visit, and check local providers before deciding.

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 →

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