Where Cars Get Broken Into in New Orleans

Name: Vehicle break-ins in New Orleans by neighborhood, 2024-2026
Creator: Auto Glass Repair New Orleans

Every call to the NOPD carries a location. We took January 2024 through September 16, 2026, kept the ones logged as a vehicle burglary, and dropped each one inside the city's own neighborhood boundaries. 6,798 of them, or 6.9 a day for 990 days straight.

Car interior covered in broken glass after a side window was smashed

The city, year by year

Year	Vehicles broken into	Per day
2024	2,489	6.8
2025	2,532	6.9
2026 (to Sept 16)	1,777	6.9

Between the two full years on the table the count went up 2%. The 2026 row stops on September 16, 2026, so the per-day column is the only fair way to read it against the others — which is why it is there.

One thing this table is not We are not showing you 2021 or 2022, and that is deliberate. Those years carry roughly three times the break-ins of 2024. We cannot tell from the data whether that is a real collapse in vehicle burglary or a change in how the NOPD classifies these calls — and 2023 uses different wording entirely (burglary from vehicle rather than simple burglary vehicle). Rather than mix vocabularies and present the result as a trend, we use three consecutive years that were recorded the same way.

Every neighborhood, ranked

61 neighborhoods cleared our threshold of 120 glass-breaking events over the window. Here they are by break-ins — darker means more.

#	Neighborhood	Area	Broken into	Share of its glass events	Shops
1	Central Business District	—	585	13%	3
2	Central City	—	432	14%	16
3	Little Woods	New Orleans East	416	28%	8
4	Mid-City	—	359	15%	21
5	7th Ward	—	297	13%	8
6	French Quarter	—	294	24%	—
7	Marigny	—	263	45%	1
8	Lower Garden District	—	208	14%	—
9	Tremé	—	196	11%	5
10	Old Aurora	the West Bank	179	20%	2
11	Tall Timbers–Brechtel	the West Bank	173	14%	2
12	St. Roch	—	169	12%	10
13	Bywater	—	161	22%	3
14	St. Claude	—	154	18%	6
15	Tulane–Gravier	—	131	6%	20
16	Audubon	Uptown	128	14%	—
17	Village de LEst	New Orleans East	128	18%	3
18	Milan	Uptown	125	18%	6
19	Broadmoor	—	105	20%	2
20	Gentilly Terrace	Gentilly	98	10%	—
21	Uptown	Uptown	92	18%	—
22	Pines Village	New Orleans East	91	20%	8
23	Read Blvd East	New Orleans East	90	12%	4
24	Leonidas	Uptown	85	13%	2
25	Fairgrounds	—	85	16%	3
26	West Lake Forest	New Orleans East	81	12%	1
27	City Park	Lakeview	74	13%	—
28	Behrman	the West Bank	70	9%	6
29	Dillard	Gentilly	68	10%	6
30	Gert Town	—	65	6%	10
31	Lower 9th Ward	—	65	13%	2
32	Desire Area	New Orleans East	63	5%	8
33	Lakeview	Lakeview	62	9%	—
34	Plum Orchard	New Orleans East	61	23%	14
35	Hollygrove	—	56	12%	2
36	St. Anthony	Gentilly	56	24%	—
37	Bayou St. John	—	54	22%	4
38	Holy Cross	—	54	26%	1
39	East Carrollton	Uptown	53	29%	—
40	Milneburg	Gentilly	52	21%	3
41	Freret	Uptown	50	13%	1
42	Iberville	—	50	35%	—
43	Navarre	Lakeview	49	15%	1
44	St. Bernard Area	—	48	13%	2
45	Irish Channel	—	47	25%	5
46	West Riverside	Uptown	46	15%	2
47	Viavant–Venetian Isles	New Orleans East	42	3%	58
48	Read Blvd West	New Orleans East	40	29%	3
49	St. Thomas	—	36	22%	—
50	Gentilly Woods	Gentilly	36	23%	—
51	Touro	Uptown	34	9%	2
52	U.S. Naval Base	the West Bank	28	22%	2
53	Lake Terrace & Oaks	Lakeview	27	15%	—
54	Garden District	—	25	14%	—
55	Whitney	the West Bank	20	14%	—
56	B.W. Cooper	—	18	2%	1
57	Dixon	—	17	3%	—
58	West End	Lakeview	10	7%	—
59	Lake Catherine	New Orleans East	6	2%	—
60	Fischer	the West Bank	6	3%	1
61	Lakewood	Lakeview	4	1%	—

How to read the last two columns

The raw count tells you where the volume is. The share column tells you what kind of place it is.

A neighborhood at 45% is one where broken glass mostly means somebody opened a parked car. A neighborhood in single digits is one where broken glass mostly means a collision. Those are different problems with different fixes: the first is a tempered door window, the second is a laminated windshield, and knowing which one you are is worth more than knowing the rank.

The last column is how many licensed motor-trade businesses the city places inside that neighborhood. A dash means none at all.

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Source: City of New Orleans open data — Active Occupational Licenses (iqay-p646) and NOPD Calls for Service, one dataset per year. Window: January 2024 through September 16, 2026. Incidents are placed inside the city's own 72 Neighborhood Statistical Areas (exvn-jeh2). How we use city data.

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The city, year by year

Every neighborhood, ranked

How to read the last two columns