CrimeMetric

Crime in Laplace, Louisiana

Major crime in Laplace is 44% below the U.S. rate per resident: 56% lower for persons crimes and 42% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 1.9% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
56
44% below the U.S. rate
60% below the Louisiana rate
up 1.9% in a year
Persons crimes
44
56% below the U.S. rate
73% below the Louisiana rate
down 4.3% in a year
Property crimes
58
42% below the U.S. rate
56% below the Louisiana rate
up 3.1% in a year
Social disorder
97
about the U.S. rate
28% below the Louisiana rate
up 2.3% 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

Weapons violations stand out most, at 2.7 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Laplace 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 Laplace

The middle half of Laplace residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 25 and 63; the typical (median) resident's is 46. The citywide figure (56) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Laplace, 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. Tap one to compare it. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5065.7%
  • 50–10021.7%
  • 100–2008.2%
  • 200–4004.4%
  • 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 6pm77
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am34
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm64
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am32
Trend and outlook

Major crime rose 1.9% in a year; across Louisiana it fell 7.7%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime+1.9%LA -7.7%-21.4%LA -15.1%
Persons crimes-4.3%LA -3.7%-9.4%LA -3.8%
Property crimes+3.1%LA -8.7%-23.4%LA -18.1%
Social disorder+2.3%LA -5.8%-15.3%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

Laplace against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents

658 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Laplace; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:

Easley, SC28,60486
Kirkwood, MO28,63983
Laplace, LA28,67356
Alvin, TX28,75854
Milton, MA28,69133

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

Nearby places

Laplace has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Reserve (4 mi), is 13% above Laplace's rate.

Kenner15 mi112
Norco7 mi76
Reserve4 mi63
Laplace56
St. Rose13 mi55
Destrehan11 mi45
Luling14 mi43
Lutcher13 mi37

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

Questions about crime in Laplace

What are the most common crimes in Laplace?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 114 a year), shoplifting (about 52 a year) and burglary (about 38 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations 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. Laplace's figures add up its 18 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Laplace has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 4.4% 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: 28,673. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100