Cleveland, MS has a D safety grade (37/100) with a violent crime rate of 384 per 100,000, 9% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Cleveland (10,165 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MS and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Cleveland, MS is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 9% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cleveland, MS shows violent crime at 383.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,843.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 9% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 886.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 383.7 in 2024 (-56.7%). The highest observed value was 1038.6 in 2022 and the lowest 383.7 in 2024. 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 Cleveland's 383.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bruce (380.0), Tupelo (391.0), Corinth (353.6), Batesville (343.8). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 383.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cleveland ranks 13 of 63 — above 50 of the 62 other Mississippi cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +105.4% 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 84.1% of reported property offenses in Cleveland, against a cohort median of 75.0%. The remainder is burglary (19) and motor vehicle theft (27). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Cleveland'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 7.6 Census sq mi, Cleveland logged 38.1 property and 5.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Cleveland's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 328 offenses; mix index 5,682).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Cleveland offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.6 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 | 289 | 2843.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 243 | 2390.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 27 | 265.6 |
| Burglary | 19 | 186.9 |
| Arson | 1 | 9.8 |
| Violent Crime | 39 | 383.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 31 | 305 |
| Robbery | 4 | 39.4 |
| Murder | 2 | 19.7 |
| Rape | 2 | 19.7 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 10,944 | 886.3 | 6250 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 10,710 | 915 | 4724.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,687 | 1038.6 | 4762.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 10,261 | 672.4 | 3488.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 10,165 | 383.7 | 2843.1 |
Cleveland Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Cleveland's 328 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 Cleveland in population. Their populations run from 7,733 to 12,526, against 10,165 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Cleveland sits at 383.7/100K violent (grade D); the Mississippi cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Cleveland at 383.7/100K violent and 2,843.1/100K property - matched below outside Mississippi (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
383.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,843.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Cleveland reported 39 violent crimes and 289 property crimes, for a total of 328 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Cleveland's violent crime rate decreased by 42.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 18.5%.
The most common crime type in Cleveland is larceny-theft, accounting for 74.1% of all reported crimes (243 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Cleveland figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Cleveland's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Cleveland, MS rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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