Booneville, MS has a C safety grade (46/100) with a violent crime rate of 242 per 100,000, 31% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Booneville is a small municipal reporter (9,075 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MS and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Booneville, MS is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 31% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Booneville, MS shows violent crime at 242.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,647.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 31% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Booneville reported 22 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 9,075. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Booneville's 242.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Gautier (247.1), Poplarville (248.6), Union (251.0), Pontotoc (251.4). 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 6.2% of the 353 Part I offenses reported in Booneville for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Mississippi cities — a gap of 5.0 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 85.5% of reported property offenses in Booneville, against a cohort median of 75.0%. The remainder is burglary (31) and motor vehicle theft (17). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 242.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Booneville ranks 27 of 63 — above 36 of the 62 other Mississippi cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +29.8% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 224.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 242.4 in 2024 (+8.1%). The highest observed value was 336.2 in 2023 and the lowest 203.2 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Booneville'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 22 reported violent incidents in a population of 9,075. 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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 25.8 Census sq mi, Booneville logged 12.9 property and 0.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Booneville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (80% of 353 offenses; mix index 6,543).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Booneville offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (25.8 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 | 331 | 3647.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 283 | 3118.5 |
| Burglary | 31 | 341.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 17 | 187.3 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 22 | 242.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 12 | 132.2 |
| Rape | 7 | 77.1 |
| Murder | 2 | 22 |
| Robbery | 1 | 11 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,472 | 224.3 | 3080.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,368 | 203.2 | 2939.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,676 | 265.1 | 4414.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,923 | 336.2 | 3866.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,075 | 242.4 | 3647.4 |
Booneville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Booneville's 353 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 Booneville in population. Their populations run from 6,923 to 10,901, against 9,075 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Booneville sits at 242.4/100K violent (grade C); the Mississippi cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Booneville reported 22 violent crimes and 331 property crimes, for a total of 353 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Booneville's violent crime rate decreased by 27.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 5.7%.
The most common crime type in Booneville is larceny-theft, accounting for 80.2% of all reported crimes (283 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Booneville is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Booneville's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Booneville, MS rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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