Baton Rouge Sexual assault

Baton Rouge · Sexual assault · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Baton Rouge police open data recorded 297 sexual assault incidents, 0.9% of all 33,037 incidents reported in the city that year and down 14.4% from 2024. That is about 134 per 100,000 residents, compared with 80.9 per 100,000 across the 42 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 289 sexual assault incidents have been published.

Sexual assault in Baton Rouge by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)289——
2025297134down 14.4%
2024347157down 2.3%
2023355161up 6.3%
2022334151up 15.2%
2021290131—
20203——

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 1,915 sexual assault incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most sexual assault (2025)

  1. North Baton Rouge 22 incidents
  2. Old South Baton Rouge 16 incidents
  3. Delmont Place 14 incidents
  4. South Campus 14 incidents
  5. Jones Creek 14 incidents
  6. Scotlandville 13 incidents
  7. North Sherwood Forest 13 incidents
  8. Downtown East 13 incidents

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

Questions

How many sexual assault incidents were reported in Baton Rouge in 2025?

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

Is sexual assault going up or down in Baton Rouge?

Reported sexual assault was down 14.4% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 11.1% compared with 2022 (falling 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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