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Baton Rouge, LA · the CityFunIndex

Safety in Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge ranks T#131 of 134 US cities for staying safe, with a safety score of 8 — Quiet. That puts it in the 3rd percentile nationally and #2 of 2 in Louisiana.

safety score
8
Quiet
National rank
T#131 of 134
In Louisiana
#2 of 2
Percentile
3rd

The typical city scores 50 for staying safe; Baton Rouge sits 42 points below the median.

How safety is measured

Reported violent and property crime rates.

The safety score is the flip side of our crime measure — 100 minus the raw crime score — so a city with less of it scores higher.

Data sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer and city open-data crime portals.

Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →

Ranked around Baton Rouge

  1. T#128 St. Louis, MO 9
  2. T#128 Wichita, KS 9
  3. T#131 Baton Rouge, LA — this page 8
  4. #134 Las Vegas, NV 7

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Top US cities for staying safe

  1. #1 Jackson, WY 100
  2. #2 Gilbert, AZ 99
  3. T#3 Boise, ID 98
  4. T#3 Santa Clarita, CA 98
  5. #5 Irvine, CA 97

More about Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge scores 28 overall (Quiet) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: