Baton Rouge Crime Map

Louisiana · Latest 24h · updated 2026-11-12

Latest 24h	70 incidents, 17 violent (2026-11-10)
2026 YTD	28,320 incidents through October
2025 (full year)	33,037 incidents
Full archive	693,236 incidents (2011–2026)
Per 100K / year	14,955

Source: Baton Rouge Police Department open data.

About crime in Baton Rouge

Latest mapped day. Baton Rouge recorded 70 incidents on 2026-11-10, including 17 violent-category incidents. This is a short-window snapshot of police open data, not a personal-safety score.

Year-over-year context

Baton Rouge recorded 36,621 incidents in 2024 and 33,037 in 2025, a 9.8% decrease. Year-to-year comparisons depend on consistent source coverage and reporting definitions.

Latest 24h (2026-11-10) category breakdown

Other	23
Theft	12
Assault	9
Theft from vehicle	9
Shooting	7
Vandalism	4
Auto theft	3
Burglary	2

Across 2011–2026, the current archive contains 693,236 incidents for Baton Rouge. Missing categories or periods reflect what the source publishes; missing is not zero.

Baton Rouge crime overview

Essay updated 2026-11-12 · figures above are from the latest data

TL;DR. Baton Rouge recorded 33,037 police-reported incidents in 2025, down 9.8% from 36,621 in 2024. Other was the most reported category with 11,186 incidents, or 33.9% of the total, followed by Assault with 5,785 and Theft with 5,765. Violent-category incidents totaled 6,635. North Baton Rouge led named neighborhoods at 2,275. Data is current through November 2026 and covers 12 months of 2025.

About this data

TheCrimeMaps shows police-reported incidents in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, sourced from open data published by the Baton Rouge Police Department. The map reflects calendar year 2025, a complete 12-month year with 33,037 police-reported incidents recorded across 36 named neighborhoods.

In 2025, Baton Rouge recorded 14,955.2 reported incidents per 100,000 residents, calculated from the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 population estimate of 220,907 for the city. Violent-category incidents, defined as assault plus sexual assault plus robbery plus shooting plus homicide in 2025, totaled 6,635, or 20.1% of the total, for a violent rate of 3,003.5 per 100,000 residents. These are rates of police-reported incidents, not measures of personal risk. Data runs through November 2026, and the all-years archive holds 693,236 incidents from 2011 to 2026 combined.

Recent trend

Reported incidents fell 9.8% from 36,621 in 2024 to 33,037 in 2025, based on two consecutive complete calendar years. That 2025 total continues a longer decline from 62,924 in 2011 and sits below 39,147 in 2020 and 33,223 in 2021. More recently, counts rose from 33,223 in 2021 to 34,728 in 2022, 35,780 in 2023 and 36,621 in 2024 before the 2025 decline. For the current window, January–October 2026 recorded 28,320 incidents compared with 27,959 in the same months of 2025, a 1.3% increase on a like-for-like basis.

Category breakdown

In 2025, Other was the largest category with 11,186 incidents, or 33.9% of the 33,037 total. The source groups weapons offenses, threats, drugs, impaired and dangerous driving and other crime under Other, with other crime accounting for 7,326 incidents, or 22.2% of the total, followed by drugs at 1,355 and weapons offenses at 1,345. Assault ranked second with 5,785 incidents, or 17.5%, just ahead of Theft in third with 5,765 incidents, also 17.5%. Vandalism added 3,108 incidents, or 9.4%, while theft from vehicle contributed 2,010, or 6.1%, and burglary contributed 1,891, or 5.7%. All shares are calculated from the 2025 total of 33,037 police-reported incidents.

Where incidents concentrate

Among 36 named neighborhoods in 2025, North Baton Rouge recorded the most incidents with 2,275, or 6.9% of the city total, followed by Scotlandville with 1,813, or 5.5%, and Jones Creek with 1,702, or 5.2%. Brookstown was next with 1,689 incidents, or 5.1%, and Old South Baton Rouge followed with 1,530, or 4.6%. Together these five areas show where 2025 reports were concentrated within the city's 33,037 incidents. Counts follow where people live, work and visit, so they are not a risk score.

What this means

The standout in Baton Rouge's 2025 data is how tightly the top categories cluster: Other leads with 11,186 incidents and 33.9%, while Assault at 5,785 and 17.5% and Theft at 5,765 and 17.5% follow closely. North Baton Rouge at 2,275 and 6.9% leads Scotlandville at 1,813 and 5.5% and Jones Creek at 1,702 and 5.2% within the 33,037 total. The 2025 count of 33,037 is down from 36,621 in 2024 and well below 62,924 in 2011.

FAQ

How many crimes were reported in Baton Rouge in 2025?
Baton Rouge had 33,037 police-reported incidents in calendar year 2025, which covers 12 months of data. That equals 14,955.2 reported incidents per 100,000 residents in 2025, based on the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 population estimate of 220,907 for the city. The violent total was 6,635 incidents, or 20.1% of the 2025 total.

What type of crime was most reported in Baton Rouge in 2025?
Other was the largest category in 2025 with 11,186 incidents, or 33.9% of the 33,037 total. In Baton Rouge this groups other crime with 7,326 incidents, drugs with 1,355, weapons offenses with 1,345, threats with 603, and impaired and dangerous driving with 557. The next specific categories were assault with 5,785 incidents and theft with 5,765 incidents.

Did reported crime go up or down in Baton Rouge from 2024 to 2025?
Reported incidents decreased from 36,621 in complete calendar year 2024 to 33,037 in complete calendar year 2025, a change of -9.8% across two consecutive complete calendar years. For the current window, January–October 2026 had 28,320 incidents compared with 27,959 in the same months in 2025, a change of 1.3%.

Which neighborhoods had the most reported incidents in 2025?
Among 36 named neighborhoods ranked by incidents in 2025, North Baton Rouge had the largest count with 2,275 incidents, or 6.9% of the 33,037 total. It was followed by Scotlandville with 1,813 incidents, Jones Creek with 1,702, Brookstown with 1,689, and Old South Baton Rouge with 1,530. The remaining neighborhoods each accounted for smaller shares of the yearly total.

Where does this Baton Rouge crime data come from?
The figures come from the Baton Rouge Police Department, the upstream open-data source for this page. The 2025 total of 33,037 reflects police-reported incidents in calendar year 2025. The archive combines all years from 2011 to 2026 with 693,236 incidents. Annual counts ranged from 62,924 in 2011 to 33,037 in 2025 among complete years.

How current is the Baton Rouge data on TheCrimeMaps?
Data on this page is current through November 2026. The headline total of 33,037 covers complete calendar year 2025 with 12 months of data. The archive also includes 2026 with 29,106 incidents across 11 months with data, which is a partial year. For comparison on the same months, January–October 2026 had 28,320 incidents versus 27,959 in January–October 2025.

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