Long Beach, MS has a A safety grade (83/100) with a violent crime rate of 82 per 100,000, 77% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Long Beach (17,053 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
Long Beach, MS is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 77% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Long Beach, MS shows violent crime at 82.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 991 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 77% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Long Beach reported 14 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 17,053. 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 Long Beach's 82.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Guntown (82.2), Starkville (82.9), New Albany (77.6), Brandon (88.8). 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 82.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Long Beach ranks 48 of 63 — above 15 of the 62 other Mississippi cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -57.6% against the cohort median of 193.7. 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 105.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 82.1 in 2024 (-22.0%). The highest observed value was 105.2 in 2020 and the lowest 17.4 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 7.7% of the 183 Part I offenses reported in Long Beach for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Mississippi cities — a gap of 3.5 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 counts dominate Long Beach'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 14 reported violent incidents in a population of 17,053. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 10.2 Census sq mi, Long Beach logged 16.5 property and 1.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Long Beach's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 183 offenses; mix index 6,028).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Long Beach offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.2 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 | 169 | 991 |
| Larceny-Theft | 140 | 821 |
| Burglary | 19 | 111.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 10 | 58.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 14 | 82.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 11 | 64.5 |
| Rape | 2 | 11.7 |
| Robbery | 1 | 5.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
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 | 16,161 | 105.2 | 1874.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 16,260 | 43.1 | 2029.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 16,944 | 35.4 | 1575.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 17,251 | 17.4 | 1060.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 17,053 | 82.1 | 991 |
Long Beach Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Long Beach's 183 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 Long Beach in population. Their populations run from 11,860 to 21,455, against 17,053 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Long Beach sits at 82.1/100K violent (grade A); the Mississippi cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Long Beach at 82.1/100K violent and 991/100K property - matched below outside Mississippi (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
82.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
991/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Long Beach reported 14 violent crimes and 169 property crimes, for a total of 183 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Long Beach's violent crime rate increased by 371.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.6%.
The most common crime type in Long Beach is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.5% of all reported crimes (140 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Long Beach 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 Long Beach's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Long Beach, MS rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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