NEW ORLEANS — Statistics that crime analyst Jeff Asher will present to the city council this week show what many have suspected, that the crime of car burglaries has skyrocketed in New Orleans in 2019 - a trend that has seemed to continue into this year.
Of 71 neighborhoods that are tracked in the city - all but 7 have seen the rate of car burglaries jump, with 16 neighborhoods seeing an increase of more than 100 percent - or double the previous year.
In comparing the 2018 and 2019 years, the numbers show which neighborhoods are most prone to having vehicles burglarized.
Here is the list, by which neighborhoods had the most burglaries per 1,000 addresses. The two highest neighborhoods each had more than 1 in 10 residences with at least one car burglarized.
The seven neighborhoods that stayed the same or showed a decrease in car burglaries were: Central City (-1 percent), B. W. Cooper (-29 percent), Whitney (-6 percent), Dixon (no change), Gert Town (-40 percent), West End (-17 percent) McDonogh (-14 percent).
Burglaries per 1,000 addresses.
- Iberville 165.8
- Read Blvd. East 124.8
- Lake Terrace/Oaks 88.2
- Milneburg 66.2
- West Lake Forest 50.8
- Gentilly Woods 50.2
- Tulane-Gravier 50.1
- Treme-Lafitte 47.9
- Pontchartrain Park 47.3
- Little Woods 46.2
- Filmore 43.5
- Seventh Ward 43.2
- Pines Village 43.0
- CBD 42.5
- US Naval Base 40.9
- Dillard 39.8
- Marigny 38.4
- Garden Dist. 36.9
- St. Anthony 35.9
- East Riverside 35.2
- Milan 35.1
- French Quarter 35.1
- Plum Orchard 35.1
- Village De Lest 34.2
- Broadmoor 34.1
- City Park 34.0
- Gentilly Terrace 33.5
- Read Blvd. West 33.4
- St. Roch 32.2
- Navarre 32.0
- Bayou St. John 31.5
- Fairgrounds 31.0
- Mid-City 30.5
- Marlyville/Font. 30.1
- Touro 29.8
- Uptown 28.0
- Lakeview 27.9
- Lower Ninth 27.0
- Audubon 26.6
- Central City 25.9
- B. W. Cooper 25.8
- Desire 25.8
- E. Carrollton 25.5
- Irish Channel 25.5
- Venetian Isles 24.9
- West Riverside 24.5
- Lower Garden 23.6
- Old Aurora 21.5
- Bywater 21.3
- Tall Timbers 19.9
- Freret 19.6
- Florida Area 18.6
- Algiers Point 18.1
- Lakeshore/Vista 17.6
- Leonidas 17.6
- Whitney 17.4
- Dixon 17.2
- Black Pearl 16.1
- St. Thomas 16.0
- Behrman 15.7
- Gert Town 15.6
- Fischer Dev. 14.8
- Hollygrove 14.6
- St. Claude 13.8
- St. Bernard Area 13.5
- Holy Cross 13.5
- West End 10.9
- McDonogh 10.2
- New Aurora/Eng. Turn 9.4
- Lake Catherine 7.3
- Lakewood 6.7
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