CrimeMetric

Crime in Jonesboro, Louisiana

Major crime in Jonesboro is 73% below the U.S. rate per resident: 45% lower for persons crimes and 79% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.4% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
27
73% below the U.S. rate
80% below the Louisiana rate
down 7.4% in a year
Persons crimes
56
45% below the U.S. rate
66% below the Louisiana rate
down 4.1% in a year
Property crimes
21
79% below the U.S. rate
84% below the Louisiana rate
down 9.2% in a year
Social disorder
45
55% below the U.S. rate
66% below the Louisiana rate
down 6.7% 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 38% above the U.S. rate

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

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Jonesboro

Jonesboro is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 20; the middle half of residents live where it is between 20 and 36.

Map of Jonesboro, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–50100.0%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 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 weekend daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm29
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am21
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm37
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am23
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.4% in a year; across Louisiana it fell 7.7%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.4%LA -7.7%-5.9%LA -15.1%
Persons crimes-4.1%LA -3.7%+5.0%LA -3.8%
Property crimes-9.2%LA -8.7%-12.3%LA -18.1%
Social disorder-6.7%LA -5.8%-4.1%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

Jonesboro against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents

1,549 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Jonesboro; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:

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

Nearby places

Jonesboro has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Winnfield (21 mi), is 8.6 times Jonesboro's rate.

Brownsville37 mi384
Bawcomville35 mi286
West Monroe38 mi277
Winnfield21 mi231
Ruston22 mi202
Claiborne37 mi146
Arcadia27 mi55
Grambling21 mi42
Jonesboro27

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

Questions about crime in Jonesboro

What are the most common crimes in Jonesboro?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 7 a year), other larceny (about 7 a year) and shoplifting (about 3 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 38% above 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. Jonesboro's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Jonesboro 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: 4,958. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100