Philadelphia, MS has a D safety grade (26/100) with a violent crime rate of 524 per 100,000, 49% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Philadelphia is a small municipal reporter (6,867 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MS and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Philadelphia, MS is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 49% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Philadelphia, MS shows violent crime at 524.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,490.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 49% 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 241.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 524.2 in 2024 (+117.0%). The highest observed value was 524.2 in 2024 and the lowest 241.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 524.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Philadelphia ranks 8 of 63 — above 55 of the 62 other Mississippi cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +180.7% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Philadelphia's 524.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Water Valley (531.9), West Point (507.0), Magee (562.2), Lucedale (448.9). 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 17.4% of the 207 Part I offenses reported in Philadelphia for 2024, against a median of 10.1% across comparable Mississippi cities — a gap of 7.3 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 Philadelphia'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.
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 12.2 Census sq mi, Philadelphia logged 14 property and 2.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Philadelphia's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 207 offenses; mix index 4,543).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Philadelphia offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (12.2 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 | 171 | 2490.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 133 | 1936.8 |
| Burglary | 27 | 393.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 11 | 160.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 36 | 524.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 30 | 436.9 |
| Rape | 5 | 72.8 |
| Robbery | 1 | 14.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 7,036 | 241.6 | 2259.8 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 6,959 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 6,956 | 301.9 | 1897.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 6,848 | 335.9 | 3008.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 6,867 | 524.2 | 2490.2 |
Philadelphia Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Philadelphia's 207 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Philadelphia in population. Their populations run from 5,966 to 7,733, against 6,867 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Philadelphia sits at 524.2/100K violent (grade D); the Mississippi cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Philadelphia reported 36 violent crimes and 171 property crimes, for a total of 207 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Philadelphia's violent crime rate increased by 56.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 17.2%.
The most common crime type in Philadelphia is larceny-theft, accounting for 64.3% of all reported crimes (133 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Philadelphia, MS rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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