CrimeMetric

Crime in Hammond, Louisiana

Major crime in Hammond is 2.9 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.0 times for persons crimes and 3.1 times 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
291
2.9 times the U.S. rate
2.1 times the Louisiana rate
down 7.8% in a year
Persons crimes
200
2.0 times the U.S. rate
24% above the Louisiana rate
down 1.5% in a year
Property crimes
311
3.1 times the U.S. rate
2.3 times the Louisiana rate
down 8.6% in a year
Social disorder
179
1.8 times the U.S. rate
34% above the Louisiana rate
down 6.4% 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

Other larceny stands out most, at 6.5 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Hammond 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 Hammond

The middle half of Hammond residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 122 and 348; the typical (median) resident's is 204. The citywide figure (291) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Hammond, 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%
  • 50–10021.1%
  • 100–20024.3%
  • 200–40034.6%
  • 400+20.0%

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 6pm381
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am197
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm307
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am220
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%-4.2%LA -15.1%
Persons crimes-1.5%LA -3.7%+10.9%LA -3.8%
Property crimes-8.6%LA -8.7%-6.3%LA -18.1%
Social disorder-6.4%LA -5.8%+1.6%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

Hammond against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

22 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Hammond; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Hammond, LA19,620291
Vicksburg, MS19,580207
Sulphur, LA19,624183
Arvin, CA19,664122
Laurel, VA19,656113
Manvel, TX19,66446

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

Nearby places

Hammond has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Ponchatoula (5 mi), is 62% below Hammond's rate.

Hammond291
Amite City16 mi193
Walker24 mi171
Mandeville24 mi70
Covington21 mi69
Reserve30 mi63
Laplace29 mi56

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

Questions about crime in Hammond

What are the most common crimes in Hammond?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 632 a year), burglary (about 105 a year) and aggravated assault (about 103 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 6.5 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. Hammond's figures add up its 13 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Hammond 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: 19,620. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100