Baton Rouge Fraud

Baton Rouge · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Baton Rouge police open data recorded 1,103 fraud incidents, 3.3% of all 33,037 incidents reported in the city that year and down 19.7% from 2024. That is about 499 per 100,000 residents, compared with 309 per 100,000 across the 58 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 863 fraud incidents have been published.

Fraud in Baton Rouge by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)863——
20251,103499down 19.7%
20241,374622up 30.5%
20231,053477up 1.8%
20221,034468up 16.6%
2021887402—
202016——

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 7,543 fraud incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most fraud (2025)

  1. North Baton Rouge 80 incidents
  2. Jones Creek 58 incidents
  3. Goodwood Homesites 55 incidents
  4. Scotlandville 43 incidents
  5. North Sherwood Forest 41 incidents
  6. Old South Baton Rouge 36 incidents
  7. Tara 36 incidents
  8. Mid City 34 incidents

Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.

Questions

How many fraud incidents were reported in Baton Rouge in 2025?

1,103, according to Baton Rouge Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is fraud going up or down in Baton Rouge?

Reported fraud was down 19.7% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 6.7% compared with 2022 (rising over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: Baton Rouge Police Department open data. TheCrimeMaps.com groups each published offense into a crime type; counts are police-reported incidents, not convictions, and some reports are reclassified or removed by the source later.

Other crime types in Baton Rouge

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