The Crime Indices range from 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime). Our crime rates are based on FBI data.
Violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.
Property crime includes the offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. The object of the theft-type offenses is the taking of money or property, but there is no force or threat of force against the victims.
| Cities with the Least Crime Near Ruston, Louisiana | Crime Index |
| Vienna, LA | 17.6 |
| Choudrant, LA | 20.2 |
| Grambling, LA | 24.5 |
| Simsboro, LA | 27.3 |
| Dubach, LA | 28.3 |
| Ruston, LA | 37.6 |