Where Cars Crash in New Orleans
The same NOPD call records, filtered to collisions instead of break-ins:
42,135 of them over January 2024 through September 16, 2026, or 42.6 a day. This is the
other half of why windshields break here.
42,135collisions logged
42.6a day, every day
8,522vehicles stolen in the same window
86%of all glass events are collisions
Every neighborhood, ranked by collisions
Same boundaries, same window, this time shaded by collisions instead of break-ins — darker means more.
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Each shaded neighborhood links to its own page. Hover or tap any shape for its exact count.
| # | Neighborhood | Area | Collisions | Share of its glass events | Shops |
|---|
| 1 | Central Business District | — | 3,783 | 87% | 3 |
| 2 | Central City | — | 2,621 | 86% | 16 |
| 3 | Tulane–Gravier | — | 2,124 | 94% | 20 |
| 4 | Mid-City | — | 1,982 | 85% | 21 |
| 5 | 7th Ward | — | 1,913 | 87% | 8 |
| 6 | Tremé | — | 1,509 | 89% | 5 |
| 7 | Viavant–Venetian Isles | New Orleans East | 1,455 | 97% | 58 |
| 8 | Lower Garden District | — | 1,324 | 86% | — |
| 9 | Desire Area | New Orleans East | 1,236 | 95% | 8 |
| 10 | St. Roch | — | 1,191 | 88% | 10 |
| 11 | Gert Town | — | 1,075 | 94% | 10 |
| 12 | Little Woods | New Orleans East | 1,073 | 72% | 8 |
| 13 | Tall Timbers–Brechtel | the West Bank | 1,055 | 86% | 2 |
| 14 | French Quarter | — | 945 | 76% | — |
| 15 | Gentilly Terrace | Gentilly | 891 | 90% | — |
| 16 | B.W. Cooper | — | 790 | 98% | 1 |
| 17 | Audubon | Uptown | 765 | 86% | — |
| 18 | Old Aurora | the West Bank | 735 | 80% | 2 |
| 19 | St. Claude | — | 705 | 82% | 6 |
| 20 | Read Blvd East | New Orleans East | 691 | 88% | 4 |
| 21 | Behrman | the West Bank | 688 | 91% | 6 |
| 22 | Lakewood | Lakeview | 639 | 99% | — |
| 23 | Lakeview | Lakeview | 628 | 91% | — |
| 24 | Dillard | Gentilly | 627 | 90% | 6 |
| 25 | Dixon | — | 617 | 97% | — |
| 26 | Leonidas | Uptown | 585 | 87% | 2 |
| 27 | West Lake Forest | New Orleans East | 582 | 88% | 1 |
| 28 | Village de LEst | New Orleans East | 569 | 82% | 3 |
| 29 | Milan | Uptown | 565 | 82% | 6 |
| 30 | Bywater | — | 560 | 78% | 3 |
| 31 | City Park | Lakeview | 497 | 87% | — |
| 32 | Fairgrounds | — | 459 | 84% | 3 |
| 33 | Uptown | Uptown | 427 | 82% | — |
| 34 | Lower 9th Ward | — | 421 | 87% | 2 |
| 35 | Hollygrove | — | 421 | 88% | 2 |
| 36 | Broadmoor | — | 411 | 80% | 2 |
| 37 | Pines Village | New Orleans East | 373 | 80% | 8 |
| 38 | Touro | Uptown | 339 | 91% | 2 |
| 39 | Lake Catherine | New Orleans East | 333 | 98% | — |
| 40 | Freret | Uptown | 331 | 87% | 1 |
| 41 | Marigny | — | 328 | 55% | 1 |
| 42 | St. Bernard Area | — | 313 | 87% | 2 |
| 43 | Navarre | Lakeview | 269 | 85% | 1 |
| 44 | West Riverside | Uptown | 262 | 85% | 2 |
| 45 | Plum Orchard | New Orleans East | 208 | 77% | 14 |
| 46 | Milneburg | Gentilly | 193 | 79% | 3 |
| 47 | Bayou St. John | — | 192 | 78% | 4 |
| 48 | Fischer | the West Bank | 178 | 97% | 1 |
| 49 | St. Anthony | Gentilly | 177 | 76% | — |
| 50 | Holy Cross | — | 153 | 74% | 1 |
| 51 | Lake Terrace & Oaks | Lakeview | 149 | 85% | — |
| 52 | Garden District | — | 148 | 86% | — |
| 53 | Irish Channel | — | 139 | 75% | 5 |
| 54 | West End | Lakeview | 139 | 93% | — |
| 55 | St. Thomas | — | 128 | 78% | — |
| 56 | East Carrollton | Uptown | 127 | 71% | — |
| 57 | Whitney | the West Bank | 123 | 86% | — |
| 58 | Gentilly Woods | Gentilly | 119 | 77% | — |
| 59 | U.S. Naval Base | the West Bank | 102 | 78% | 2 |
| 60 | Read Blvd West | New Orleans East | 100 | 71% | 3 |
| 61 | Iberville | — | 91 | 65% | — |
Why the top of this table is not the top of the other one
The Central Business District leads on collisions with 3,783.
It is a downtown with a stadium, a convention centre, an interstate feeding into it and a street grid full
of one-ways — which produces collisions the way a residential street produces break-ins.
That distinction is the practical one for glass. A collision that breaks glass usually breaks the
windshield, which is laminated, structural and on most modern cars carries the camera for lane
keeping and automatic braking. A break-in breaks a side window, which is tempered and carries
nothing. Same trade, different job, different day.
What is not on this page
These are calls to the police, not insurance claims and not a crash severity index. A fender-bender
that someone called in counts once; one that the drivers sorted out between themselves does not appear at
all. The number is therefore a floor, not a total — and it is consistent year to year, which is what makes
comparing neighborhoods worth doing.
We also do not know which of these collisions broke glass. Nobody does; it is not a field the NOPD
records. What we can say is that 42,135 collisions in 990 days is the pool the
windshield work comes out of.
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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.