Seminary, MS is among the safest cities in the country, and earns an A+ PlainCrime safety grade
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Seminary, MS shows violent crime at 0 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 343.6 per 100,000. PlainCrime assigns grade A+ from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
A+ safety grade
0/100K violent
343.6/100K property
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Seminary, MS
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Seminary reported 0 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 291. 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 0.0% of reported property offenses in Seminary, against a cohort median of 76.1%. The remainder is burglary (1) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
Seminary reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Mississippi cities
At 0.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Seminary ranks 58 of 63 — above 0 of the 62 other Mississippi cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -100.0% 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.
Comparable rate records
Seminary's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Mississippi cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Seminary's 0.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mathiston (0.0), Pass Christian (0.0), Puckett (0.0), Quitman (0.0). 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
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 0.0% of the 1 Part I offenses reported in Seminary for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Mississippi cities — a gap of 11.2 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.
Property counts dominate Seminary'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 0 reported violent incidents in a population of 291. 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.
Seminary's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 1.5 Census sq mi, Seminary logged 0.7 property and 0 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Seminary's 2024 book concentrates in burglary (100% of 1 offenses; mix index 10,000).
Violent offenses are only 0% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-0.3%
344.8 → 343.6/100K
Property offenses lead Seminary's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1
343.6
1711
Burglary
1
343.6
-
Larceny-Theft
0
0
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
0
0
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
0
0
352
Murder
0
0
-
Rape
0
0
-
Robbery
0
0
-
Aggravated Assault
0
0
-
Seminary Crime Trend (2021-2024)
Seminary property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
343.6/100K↓0.3%vs 2023
Seminary violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · fell · 2021-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
0/100K
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2021
Comparable
281
0
1423.5
4
2022
Comparable
297
0
1346.8
4
2023
Comparable
290
0
344.8
1
2024
Comparable
291
0
343.6
1
Seminary Police Department
Reporting agency for Seminary NIBRS-participating
Seminary Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Seminary's 1 reported offenses (4-year span 2021-2024).
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.
Similar-Size Cities in Mississippi
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Mississippi cities closest to Seminary in population. Their populations run from 348 to 1,558, against 291 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Seminary reported 0 violent crimes and 1 property crimes, for a total of 1 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Seminary?
From 2023 to 2024, Seminary's violent crime rate data is unavailable, and the property crime rate decreased by 0.3%.
What is the most common crime in Seminary?
The most common crime type in Seminary is burglary, accounting for 100.0% of all reported crimes (1 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Seminary'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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Seminary, MS rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.