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New Orleans Crime Rate Report (Louisiana)

New Orleans crime statistics report an overall downward trend in crime based on data from 20 years with violent crime decreasing and property crime decreasing. Based on this trend, the crime rate in New Orleans for 2025 is expected to be lower than in 2019.

The city violent crime rate for New Orleans in 2019 was higher than the national violent crime rate average by 201.71% and the city property crime rate in New Orleans was higher than the national property crime rate average by 150.84%.

In 2019 the city violent crime rate in New Orleans was higher than the violent crime rate in Louisiana by 108.39% and the city property crime rate in New Orleans was higher than the property crime rate in Louisiana by 67.38%.

Property and Violent Crime
New Orleans Property Crime vs. State and National Per Capita
New Orleans Violent Crime vs. State and National Per Capita

New Orleans Crime Statistics
Summary Report

2019 Crime (Actual Data)*Incidents
Aggravated Assault2,608
Arson0
Burglary2,143
Larceny and Theft15,785
Motor Vehicle Theft2,951
Murder and Manslaughter121
Rape774
Robbery1,013
Crime Rate (Total Incidents)26,810
Property Crime20,879
Violent Crime4,516
2025 Crime (Projected Data)*Incidents
Aggravated Assault3,555
Arson43
Burglary707
Larceny and Theft19,544
Motor Vehicle Theft3,195
Murder and Manslaughter102
Rape1,195
Robbery1,460
Crime Rate (Total Incidents)29,377
Property Crime23,446
Violent Crime6,311

Property and Violent Crime Totals

New Orleans Property Crime

New Orleans Violent Crime

Actual versus Projected Crime Totals

New Orleans Crime 2019

New Orleans Crime 2025

City versus State versus National Crime Comparison

New Orleans Property Crime vs. State and National Comparison

New Orleans Violent Crime vs. State and National Comparison
* The source of actual data on this New Orleans, Louisiana crime rate report is the FBI Report of Offenses Known to Law Enforcement for the corresponding year or years. Arson numbers are reported inconsistently. Zero values may indicate the data was not available. The projected crime rate data displayed above was generated from the trends and crime data available from previous years of actual reported data. In this case, the New Orleans crime report data for 2025 was projected from 20 years of actual data. The last year of actual available crime data, as reported above, was 2019.

The FBI cautions the data users against comparing yearly statistical data solely on the basis of their population coverage. The comparisons made herein are thus, only meaningful upon further examination of all variables that affect crime in each reported city, state or other reported jurisdicition.



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