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Safety in New Orleans

New Orleans ranks T#128 of 134 US cities for staying safe, with a safety score of 9 — Quiet. That puts it in the 5th percentile nationally and #1 of 2 in Louisiana.

safety score
9
Quiet
National rank
T#128 of 134
In Louisiana
#1 of 2
Percentile
5th

The typical city scores 50 for staying safe; New Orleans sits 41 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 New Orleans

  1. T#125 Detroit, MI 10
  2. T#125 Portland, OR 10
  3. T#128 New Orleans, LA — this page 9
  4. T#131 Baton Rouge, LA 8
  5. T#131 Memphis, TN 8

See the full leaderboard — The safest cities in America →

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 New Orleans

New Orleans scores 64 overall (Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: