Crime in Metairie, Louisiana
Major crime in Metairie is 31% above the U.S. rate per resident: 29% lower for persons crimes and 44% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 1.8% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 2.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Metairie for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Metairie
The middle half of Metairie residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 45 and 143; the typical (median) resident's is 81. The citywide figure (131) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5032.0%
- 50–10029.6%
- 100–20022.8%
- 200–40011.2%
- 400+4.5%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 1.8% in a year; across Louisiana it fell 7.7%
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.
Metairie against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
93 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Metairie; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Metairie has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Jefferson (3 mi), is 34% above Metairie's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Metairie
What are the most common crimes in Metairie?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 1,303 a year), other larceny (about 746 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 327 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 2.9 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. Metairie's figures add up its 104 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Metairie has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 66.2% 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: 139,593. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Metairie, Louisiana." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/la/metairie
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Jefferson3 mi176
- River Ridge4 mi72
- Harahan4 mi46
- Kenner5 mi112
- Waggaman5 mi50
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