Airline-Jefferson is a neighborhood of 10,400 residents in Baton Rouge, about 8 miles southeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Airline-Jefferson in Baton Rouge safe?
Yes, by national standards: an overall CrimeGrade™ of A- means crime in Airline-Jefferson is low. Most US neighborhoods have even less, though: 61% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, A- against B. Baton Rouge as a whole grades C-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Airline-Jefferson run from A to B-, so check the map below.
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Safety score 772 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
39% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Airline-Jefferson as a whole, and 61% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Airline-Jefferson scores 772.
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 crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime 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 Airline-Jefferson, Baton Rouge, LA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Airline-Jefferson in Baton Rouge, 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 in Airline-Jefferson
One weak spot: burglary. It grades C+ in Airline-Jefferson, worse than in the neighborhoods where 93% of Americans live, against B for property crime as a whole.
Theft at more than triple the US rate. Airline-Jefferson has 61.0 thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 13.1 nationally.
How Airline-Jefferson compares within Baton Rouge
Every part of Airline-Jefferson where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Airline-Jefferson run from A to B-; 26% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Airline-Jefferson has less crime than 11 of the 13 neighborhoods in Baton Rouge. It covers much of the South Baton Rouge and Airline-Jefferson areas.
Crime rates and types in Airline-Jefferson
CrimeGrade™ estimates Airline-Jefferson has about 106 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about triple the rate for the US as a whole and 49% more than Baton Rouge as a whole.
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Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft is the most common crime in Airline-Jefferson, about 57% of everything reported, and it also accounts for the largest share of what crime costs here.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. 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.
How Airline-Jefferson compares with nearby neighborhoods
Airline-Jefferson has the least crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Airline-Jefferson. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Airline-Jefferson is safer than 55% of them.
Jobs, parking lots and walkability in Airline-Jefferson
Two things set Airline-Jefferson apart: it has 375 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 4.9 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. It also combines many stores and restaurants with a lot of parking-lot space: places with both tend to report more theft and car theft than places with only one of them, and they run high here.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.375 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 98% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.4.9 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 98% 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 and assault. 83% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (16 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 81% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.42.5 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 98% 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 crime costs Airline-Jefferson
Crime costs Airline-Jefferson about $1,831 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 52% more than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $22 million a year, or $2,081 per resident.
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Airline-Jefferson means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Airline-Jefferson 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.
Schools in Airline-Jefferson, Baton Rouge, LA average a SchoolGrade of D+: 26% of students test proficient, against 24% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Airline-Jefferson on SchoolGrade
