West Point, MS has a D safety grade (31/100) with a violent crime rate of 507 per 100,000, 44% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
West Point is a small municipal reporter (9,665 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MS and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
West Point, MS is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 44% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, West Point, MS shows violent crime at 507 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,079.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 44% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 507.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, West Point ranks 9 of 63 — above 54 of the 62 other Mississippi cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +171.4% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to West Point's 507.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Philadelphia (524.2), Water Valley (531.9), 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 19.6% of the 250 Part I offenses reported in West Point for 2024, against a median of 10.1% across comparable Mississippi cities — a gap of 9.5 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 523.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 507.0 in 2024 (-3.2%). The highest observed value was 899.4 in 2023 and the lowest 507.0 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate West Point'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 20.9 Census sq mi, West Point logged 9.6 property and 2.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
West Point leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,713.
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
West Point offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (20.9 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 | 201 | 2079.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 139 | 1438.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 34 | 351.8 |
| Burglary | 28 | 289.7 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 49 | 507 |
| Aggravated Assault | 44 | 455.3 |
| Murder | 2 | 20.7 |
| Rape | 2 | 20.7 |
| Robbery | 1 | 10.3 |
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 | 10,314 | 523.6 | 3063.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 10,294 | 680 | 2603.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 9,893 | 869.3 | 2607.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 9,784 | 899.4 | 1563.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,665 | 507 | 2079.7 |
West Point Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind West Point's 250 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 West Point in population. Their populations run from 7,486 to 11,860, against 9,665 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
West Point sits at 507/100K violent (grade D); the Mississippi cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, West Point reported 49 violent crimes and 201 property crimes, for a total of 250 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, West Point's violent crime rate decreased by 43.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 33%.
The most common crime type in West Point is larceny-theft, accounting for 55.6% of all reported crimes (139 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: West Point 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 West Point's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 West Point, MS rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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