CrimeMetric

Crime in Morgan City, Louisiana

Major crime in Morgan City is 1.6 times the U.S. rate per resident: 1.6 times for persons crimes and 1.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.0% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
158
1.6 times the U.S. rate
15% above the Louisiana rate
down 8.0% in a year
Persons crimes
156
1.6 times the U.S. rate
about the Louisiana rate
down 4.5% in a year
Property crimes
159
1.6 times the U.S. rate
19% above the Louisiana rate
down 8.7% in a year
Social disorder
380
3.8 times the U.S. rate
2.8 times the Louisiana rate
down 7.1% 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

Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 9.0 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Morgan City 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 Morgan City

The middle half of Morgan City residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 51 and 257; the typical (median) resident's is 145.

Map of Morgan City, 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.
  • 0–5014.9%
  • 50–10018.7%
  • 100–20040.6%
  • 200–40025.8%
  • 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 6pm207
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am108
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm165
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am121
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.0% in a year; across Louisiana it fell 7.7%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.0%LA -7.7%-19.9%LA -15.1%
Persons crimes-4.5%LA -3.7%-7.7%LA -3.8%
Property crimes-8.7%LA -8.7%-22.6%LA -18.1%
Social disorder-7.1%LA -5.8%-15.7%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

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

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

Morgan City, LA10,505158
Corning, NY10,495150
Columbia, PA10,492101
Rockwood, VA10,50634
Pella, IA10,51130

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

Nearby places

Morgan City 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, Berwick (2 mi), is 87% below Morgan City's rate.

Morgan City158
Thibodaux24 mi132
Franklin19 mi128
Gray26 mi105
Schriever22 mi94
Patterson8 mi41
Berwick2 mi21

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

Questions about crime in Morgan City

What are the most common crimes in Morgan City?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 172 a year), burglary (about 41 a year) and aggravated assault (about 40 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 9.0 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. Morgan City's figures add up its 12 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Morgan City 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: 10,505. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Morgan City, Louisiana." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/la/morgan-city

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100