Southaven, MS has a C safety grade (52/100) with a violent crime rate of 304 per 100,000, 14% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Southaven, MS Crime Rate & Safety
At 57,537 residents, Southaven is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against MS and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Southaven, MS is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 14% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Southaven, MS shows violent crime at 304.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,024.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 14% 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.
C safety grade
304.2/100K violent
2024.8/100K property
-14% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Southaven, MS
Comparable rate records
Southaven's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Mississippi cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Southaven's 304.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Wiggins (305.4), Bay Springs (316.7), Ridgeland (319.6), Vardaman (288.2). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 219.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 304.2 in 2024 (+38.8%). The highest observed value was 304.2 in 2024 and the lowest 215.3 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Southaven sits mid-pack among comparable Mississippi cities
At 304.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Southaven ranks 21 of 63 — above 42 of the 62 other Mississippi cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +62.8% 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.
Property counts dominate Southaven'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Southaven's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 41.3 Census sq mi, Southaven logged 28.2 property and 4.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Southaven's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 1,340 offenses; mix index 5,075).
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (41.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+41.3%
215.3 → 304.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
-37.9%
3258.9 → 2024.8/100K
Property offenses lead Southaven's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MS
Property Crime
1,165
2024.8
952.6
Larceny-Theft
928
1612.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
139
241.6
-
Burglary
98
170.3
-
Arson
2
3.5
-
Violent Crime
175
304.2
142.7
Aggravated Assault
144
250.3
-
Robbery
18
31.3
-
Rape
12
20.9
-
Murder
1
1.7
-
Southaven Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Southaven property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Southaven Police Department
Reporting agency for Southaven NIBRS-participating
Southaven Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Southaven's 1,340 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Mississippi
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In 2024, Southaven reported 175 violent crimes and 1,165 property crimes, for a total of 1,340 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Southaven?
From 2023 to 2024, Southaven's violent crime rate increased by 41.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 37.9%.
What is the most common crime in Southaven?
The most common crime type in Southaven is larceny-theft, accounting for 69.3% of all reported crimes (928 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Southaven's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Southaven, MS rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.