Bay Springs, MS has a B safety grade (61/100) with a violent crime rate of 317 per 100,000, 10% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Bay Springs's UCR row covers a small municipal population (1,579). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to MS and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Bay Springs, MS is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 10% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bay Springs, MS shows violent crime at 316.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 886.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 10% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Bay Springs reported 5 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,579. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 182.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 316.7 in 2024 (+73.6%). The highest observed value was 366.3 in 2021 and the lowest 182.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bay Springs's 316.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Ridgeland (319.6), Pascagoula (326.3), Wiggins (305.4), Southaven (304.2). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 26.3% of the 19 Part I offenses reported in Bay Springs for 2024, against a median of 10.1% across comparable Mississippi cities — a gap of 16.2 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Position in the state cohort
At 316.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bay Springs ranks 19 of 63 — above 44 of the 62 other Mississippi cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +69.5% against the cohort median of 186.8. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 64.3% of reported property offenses in Bay Springs, against a cohort median of 76.1%. The remainder is burglary (4) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Bay Springs's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 5 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,579. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 14.9 Census sq mi, Bay Springs logged 0.9 property and 0.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bay Springs leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,407.
Violent offenses are 26% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Bay Springs offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (14.9 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 14 | 886.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 9 | 570 |
| Burglary | 4 | 253.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 63.3 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 5 | 316.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 5 | 316.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 1,645 | 182.4 | 1155 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 1,638 | 366.3 | 1098.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,569 | 318.7 | 956 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,602 | 249.7 | 1935.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,579 | 316.7 | 886.6 |
Bay Springs Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bay Springs's 19 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Mississippi cities closest to Bay Springs in population. Their populations run from 1,041 to 1,992, against 1,579 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Bay Springs reported 5 violent crimes and 14 property crimes, for a total of 19 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Bay Springs's violent crime rate increased by 26.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 54.2%.
The most common crime type in Bay Springs is larceny-theft, accounting for 47.4% of all reported crimes (9 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Bay Springs's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Bay Springs's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bay Springs, MS rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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