CrimeMetric

Crime in Franklin, Louisiana

Major crime in Franklin is 28% above the U.S. rate per resident: 48% higher for persons crimes and 24% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.8% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
128
28% above the U.S. rate
7% below the Louisiana rate
down 7.8% in a year
Persons crimes
148
48% above the U.S. rate
8% below the Louisiana rate
down 3.7% in a year
Property crimes
124
24% above the U.S. rate
7% below the Louisiana rate
down 8.9% in a year
Social disorder
167
1.7 times the U.S. rate
25% above the Louisiana rate
down 5.9% in a year

Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.

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Crime by type

Murder stands out most, at 2.7 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Franklin for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Franklin

The middle half of Franklin residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 102 and 186; the typical (median) resident's is 103. The citywide figure (128) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Franklin, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–10024.9%
  • 100–20075.1%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm160
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am94
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm138
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am102
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.8% in a year; across Louisiana it fell 7.7%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.8%LA -7.7%-19.8%LA -15.1%
Persons crimes-3.7%LA -3.7%-7.0%LA -3.8%
Property crimes-8.9%LA -8.7%-23.2%LA -18.1%
Social disorder-5.9%LA -5.8%-13.0%LA -10.1%

Change in expected crimes, with Louisiana as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.

Similar-size places

Franklin against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

355 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Franklin; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Franklin, LA5,250128
Tyrone, PA5,24985
Benson, AZ5,25570
Colona, IL5,25163
Wahoo, NE5,25324

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Franklin has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Jeanerette (13 mi), is 39% below Franklin's rate.

New Iberia24 mi242
Morgan City19 mi158
Franklin128
Bayou Vista16 mi119
Jeanerette13 mi79
Patterson15 mi41
Berwick17 mi21

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Franklin

What are the most common crimes in Franklin?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 63 a year), aggravated assault (about 21 a year) and burglary (about 20 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 2.7 times the U.S. rate per resident.

How we calculated this

Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Franklin's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Franklin has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
  • Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
  • Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
  • Residents: 5,250. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Franklin, Louisiana." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/la/franklin

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100