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Lafayette Parish & City Court statistics

Aggregate statistics derived from public court records for Lafayette Parish (15th Judicial District Court) and Lafayette City Court in Lafayette, Louisiana. Records originate from the Lafayette Parish Clerk of Court and the courts. These figures describe how the courts process cases — filings, dispositions, and timing — and are not a measure of crime.

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These numbers are recomputed live from the current data and change as records are collected and revisited. Computed Jun 13, 2026 at 2:24 PM UTC. For exact metric definitions, what's missing, and known limitations, see the methodology page. To look up an individual case, use the search tool.

Lafayette Parish Court statistics

Derived from 15th Judicial District Court criminal case records for Lafayette Parish. Data as of Jun 13, 2026 at 10:23 AM. The dataset is live and recomputed on each load.

33,226
Cases filed (recent years)
18,665
Cases disposed (recent years)
71.6%
Clearance rate (2026)
51,727
Total charges
13.2%
FTA rate (2026)

Data completeness

How much of the underlying data is missing for the fields these statistics rely on. Records missing a field are excluded from the related calculation rather than estimated — higher percentages mean the affected figures rest on less complete data.

FieldMissing / Total%
Cases missing a filing date95 / 33,3210.3%
Charges with no recorded disposition21,551 / 51,72741.7%
Disposed charges missing a disposition date (excluded from time-to-disposition)2 / 30,1760.0%
Charges missing an offense date (excluded from offense-to-filing)2,278 / 51,7274.4%

Case filings by year

YearCases filed
20236,728
20249,166
202512,065
20265,267

Clearance rate by year

Cases disposed in a calendar year as a percentage of cases filed that same year (NCSC CourTools Measure 2). Filings and dispositions are counted as two independent flows, so this measures how well the court keeps pace with incoming volume. The rate can exceed 100% when the court resolves more cases than were filed. Full definition →

YearFiledDisposedRateFelonyMisdem.Traffic
20236,7282,70140.1%22.9%25.3%60.1%
20249,1665,16656.4%67.7%47.6%74.6%
2025 incomplete12,0657,02858.3%84.8%67.4%64.1%
2026 incomplete5,2673,77071.6%88.2%96.1%89.9%

Time to disposition by year

Average and median days from case filing to charge disposition. Per-type columns show the median for each case class. Same-day dispositions are excluded.

YearAvg (all)Median (all)FelonyMisdem.Traffic
2023270d176d286d232d64d
2024208d142d218d189d64d
2025 incomplete130d96d146d148d85d
2026 incomplete60d67d77d55d66d

Cases disposed within time standards

Of charges that have been disposed, the cumulative share reaching disposition within each interval, measured from filing date (NCSC CourTools Measure 3). Each column is cumulative.

Filing yearDisposed (n)≤ 90 days≤ 6 months≤ 1 year≤ 2 years
20239,01630.3%50.6%73.0%92.4%
20249,81237.2%58.0%80.2%99.1%
2025 incomplete9,61944.1%76.0%97.3%100.0%
2026 incomplete1,52083.6%100.0%100.0%100.0%

Pending caseload by filing year

Cases with at least one charge that has no recorded disposition — not yet resolved (NCSC CourTools Measure 4, counted per case).

Filing yearPending cases
20231,626
20243,587
20254,117
20263,035

Age of pending caseload

How long pending cases have been open, measured from filing date to today. 12,365 pending cases total. Records begin around mid-2023, so the oldest bucket is sparse and may include cases whose disposition was never entered.

Age since filingPending casesShare
0–90 days1,83314.8%
91–180 days1,30810.6%
181–365 days2,20317.8%
1–2 years4,07733.0%
Over 2 years2,94423.8%

Cases by type

Distribution of cases across case-type classifications.

Case typeCases
TRAFFIC15,741
FELONY7,711
MISDEMEANOR4,653
OUT OF PARISH4,617
Family Court409
DRUG COURT34
TRAFFIC OP9
SOBRIETY COURT6

Charge disposition breakdown

How charges were resolved, by disposition.

DispositionCount
DISMISSED CHARGE9,915
PAID OUT OF COURT5,615
DISMISSED4,381
PLED GUILTY AS CHARGED3,297
APG2,468
PLED GUILTY TO AMENDED CHARGE1,641
PLED NO CONTEST AS CHARGED1,487
PLED NO CONTEST TO AMENDED CHARGE564
ART. 892.1 SUSP OF SENT.; PROB MISD CASE407
FOUND INCOMPTENT TO STAND TRIAL117
ART. 894 SUSP OF SENT.; PROB MISD CASE76
PAID RECEIPT REQUIRED43
DISMISSED CASE26
PLED NO CONTEST23
FOUND GUILTY AS CHARGED22
NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY19
NO TRUE BILL17
PLED INTO DRUG COURT12
DISMISSED PER WRITTEN MOTION7
DISMISSED IN COURT6

Warrant / failure-to-appear by year

Two measures per filing year. "Had a warrant" counts cases where a warrant was issued at any point (the failure-to-appear rate, which does not decrease when warrants are later recalled). "Outstanding now" counts cases whose warrant is currently active per the court’s own most-recent status — the same basis as the public warrants list.

YearTotal casesHad a warrantFTA rateOutstanding now
20236,7282,79641.6%989
20249,1663,50638.3%1,500
202512,0654,42736.7%2,257
20265,26769613.2%340

Lafayette City Court statistics

Derived from Lafayette City Court records — violations, case statuses, pleas, fines, and probation data. Data as of Jun 12, 2026 at 7:21 PM.

203,401
Total records
5.6%
Warrant / FTA rate
6.4%
Violation amended rate

Data completeness

How much of the underlying data is missing for the fields these statistics rely on. Records missing a field are excluded from the related calculation rather than estimated — higher percentages mean the affected figures rest on less complete data.

FieldMissing / Total%
Records missing or with an unparseable occurrence date0 / 203,4010.0%
Records with no recorded disposition17,842 / 203,4018.8%
Records with no violation recorded22 / 203,4010.0%

Case filings by year

YearCases filed
20174,557
201815,296
201914,118
202015,789
20213,444
202214,828
202317,195
202416,441
202515,228
20265,750

Top violations

Most frequently recorded violations.

ViolationCount
CARELESS OPERATION - LIGHT/MEDIUM DAMAGE19,192
NO SAFETY BELT13,277
SPEEDING 15 TO 208,293
OPERATING A VEHICLE WHILE LICENSE IS SUSPENDED OR REVOKED7,469
FAIL TO SECURE A DRIVERS LICENSE6,273
THEFT - $50.00 OR UNDER5,847
IMPROPER LANE CHANGE - LIGHT/MEDIUM DAMAGES5,505
EXPIRED LICENSE PLATE4,962
SPEEDING 11 TO 144,532
ISSUING WORTHLESS CHECKS4,427
OWI - 1ST OFFENSE4,149
FAIL TO OBEY TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL - NO ACCIDENT4,060
CRIMINAL TRESPASS4,049
SIMPLE BATTERY3,746
RESISTING AN OFFICER3,662
THEFT - OVER $50 BUT LESS THAN $1003,441
CARELESS OPERATION - HEAVY DAMAGE/INJURY3,138
OBSCURING WINDSHIELDS OR WINDOWS PROHIBITED3,041
HIT AND RUN DRIVING3,029
EXPIRED MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTION2,823

Disposition breakdown

How violations were resolved.

DispositionCount
PLED NO CONTEST55,092
NO CONTEST - TVB50,852
NOLLE PROS29,560
NO CONTEST - WEB24,850
PLED NO CONTEST TO AMENDED CHARGE9,272
PLED GUILTY4,675
CASH BOND FORFEITED2,911
COMBINED - NC2,545
NOLLE PROS - PTD1,903
NO CONTEST - TVB- AMENDED1,393
FOUND GUILTY497
NO CONTEST - WEB - AMENDED323
FOUND NOT GUILTY299
NO CONTEST-TVB - 892.1204
PLED NO CONTEST - PENDING 894175
PLED NO CONTEST - 892.1157
PLED GUILTY TO AMENDED CHARGE151
PLED NO CONTEST (DEFERRED SENTENCE)147
COMBINED - G108
QUASHED75

Case status breakdown

Current status recorded for each case. Some status codes are still being confirmed via a public-records request (see methodology).

StatusCount
CLOSED180,137
REGULAR WARRANT5,771
PENDING4,483
BW3,006
FW2,538
DLF2,477
CLOSED - PTD1,886
DLF / RW922
WARRANT - DEBT RECOVERY806
PENDING - 892.1291
ADM. CLOSURE - PTD190
DLF / BW181
DLF / FW105
PENDING - CBF84
TVB77
PENDING - CONDITIONS77
PENDING - 894 /CC59
PENDING - CASH BOND51
PENDING - DLF42
BW/FW40
ADMIN CLOSE JUVENILE DEFENDANT29
CBF/BW27
PENDING DLF / RW26
ADM. CLOSURE14
ADMIN CLOSURE - DLF12

Warrant / failure-to-appear by year

Records whose current City Court status is Bench Warrant, Failure to Appear, or Regular Warrant, as a percentage of records filed that year. City Court status reflects the current state recorded by the court, so this is a present-status measure.

YearTotal recordsWarrant / FTA status nowRate
20174,5572184.8%
201815,2964983.3%
201914,1186154.4%
202015,7899596.1%
20213,44446313.4%
202214,8281,0046.8%
202317,1951,2747.4%
202416,4411,4018.5%
202515,2281,3538.9%
20265,7503576.2%