Martin Luther King, Shreveport, LA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Martin Luther King is a neighborhood of 10,100 residents in Shreveport, about 4 miles northwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Martin Luther King?
Property crime is high in Martin Luther King: a B, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 71% of Americans live. Theft makes up 48% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades C, and vehicle theft grades A-. Shreveport as a whole grades B for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 647 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
29% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Martin Luther King as a whole, and 71% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Martin Luther King scores 647.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more property crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its property crime with the homes, parked cars and people there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Martin Luther King, Shreveport, LA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Martin Luther King in Shreveport, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about property crime in Martin Luther King
Burglary is the exception. Martin Luther King grades B for property crime, but burglary grades C, worse than in the neighborhoods where 94% of Americans live.
How Martin Luther King compares within Shreveport
Low property crime is the norm across Martin Luther King: 89% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Property crime grades across Martin Luther King run from A- to C+.
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A or B 89%C 11%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Martin Luther King has less property crime than 10 of the 17 neighborhoods in Shreveport. It covers much of the Martin Luther King area.
Is property crime going up in Shreveport?
Reported property crime in Shreveport as a whole has fallen 19% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 49 to 40 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime rose 25%.
Property crime, change since 2019
ShreveportUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Shreveport. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Shreveport
Property, US
2016
+12%
+15%
2017
+15%
+12%
2018
+6%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-3%
-8%
2021
-18%
-10%
2022
-22%
-6%
2023
-35%
-7%
2024
-19%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Martin Luther King
CrimeGrade™ estimates Martin Luther King has about 37 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 54% more than the US as a whole and 20% less than Shreveport as a whole.
All property crime
Burglary
Vehicle theft
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Property crime here includes vandalism, which the FBI's property crime rate leaves out.
Theft is the most common property crime in Martin Luther King, about 48% of the total, followed by vandalism and burglary.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a property crime with what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for vehicle theft, people and parking for theft, homes and businesses for vandalism. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Property crime in Martin Luther King and nearby neighborhoods
Martin Luther King has less property crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Western Hills Yarborough has less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Martin Luther King. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Martin Luther King has more property crime than 59% of them.
Empty homes, density and walkability in Martin Luther King
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Martin Luther King apart: it has 18.6% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 3% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson, and burglary and vandalism run high here.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.18.6% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 98% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.3% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 96% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft. 100% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D- (8 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 96% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Martin Luther King: D (16 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 95% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What property crime costs Martin Luther King
Property crime costs Martin Luther King about $2.8 million a year, or $274 per resident and about $842 per household: the value of what is stolen or damaged, plus the police, courts and prisons that respond.
Cost of property crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The property crime CrimeGrade™ covers burglary, theft, car theft, arson and vandalism, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each property crime against what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for car theft, and the people and parking around stores for theft.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Martin Luther King is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
