Baton Rouge, United States: crime rates by area
No Safety score: fewer than 30 comparable places, or figures not complete.
Questions about crime in Baton Rouge
- Which areas of Baton Rouge have the least crime?
- Lowest crime among the 43 neighbourhoods of Baton Rouge with a Safety score: University Acres / Woodstone (10/10), LSU (10/10), Kenilworth (10/10). Highest crime among the 43 neighbourhoods of Baton Rouge with a Safety score: Downtown East (1/10), Delmont Place (1/10), East Fairfields / Melrose Place (1/10).
Neighbourhoods in Baton Rouge
- Baker 7/10
- Bocage / Citiplace / Concord Estates 6/10
- Broadmoor 9/10
- Brookstown 2/10
- Center City 2/10
- City Park 10/10
- College Town 10/10
- Cortana / Villa Del Rey 4/10
- Delmont Place 1/10
- Downtown East 1/10
- East Fairfields / Melrose Place 1/10
- Eden Park 3/10
- Fairfields 4/10
- Fairwood 5/10
- Glen Oaks / Zion City 5/10
- Goodwood 8/10
- Goodwood Homesites 3/10
- Istrouma / Dixie 1/10
- Jefferson / Drusilla 7/10
- Jones Creek 6/10
- Kenilworth 10/10
- Legion Village 2/10
- LSU 10/10
- Mayfair 9/10
- Mid City 5/10
- North Baton Rouge 3/10
- North Sherwood Forest 5/10
- O'Neal 8/10
- Old South Baton Rouge 3/10
- Park Forest / Oakcrest 7/10
- Pollard / Woodchase 8/10
- Scotlandville 4/10
- Sherwood Forest 9/10
- Smiley Heights / Melrose East 2/10
- South Burbank 9/10
- South Campus 7/10
- Southside 8/10
- Stevendale 7/10
- Tara 4/10
- The Avenues / Southern University 6/10
- University Acres / Woodstone 10/10
- Valley Park 6/10
- Victoria Farms 4/10
Other places nearby
Mayors of Baton Rouge since 2010
Baton Rouge: Mayor Sid Edwards (Republican). Governor: Jeff Landry (Republican)
Sid Edwards · Republican
since January 2025
Incomplete FBI reporting for this term
Sharon Weston Broome · Democrat
January 2021 – January 2025
Incomplete FBI reporting for this term
Sharon Weston Broome · Democrat
January 2017 – January 2021
Baton Rouge ▲ +9% · USA ▼ −15%
Offences reported to the FBI per 1,000 people, the year before the term vs its latest year
Kip Holden · Democrat
January 2013 – January 2017
Baton Rouge ▼ −16% · USA ▼ −10%
Offences reported to the FBI per 1,000 people, the year before the term vs its latest year
In some cities an appointed manager or police chief, not the mayor, runs the police; in some counties the sheriff mainly runs the jail and the courts.
Mayors: Hilbig, Archived Campaign Websites of U.S. Mayoral Candidates (CC BY 4.0) and city sites. Sheriffs: Mavridis, US Sheriff Election Data (CC BY 4.0), MIT Election Data + Science Lab (CC0) and county election offices. Crime: FBI Crime Data Explorer.
