County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Copiah County, MS
Copiah County (28,368 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Mississippi. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Copiah County, MS reported 342 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Copiah County, MS agencies reported 97 violent and 142 property offenses. That equals about 342 violent and 501 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
97 violent offenses
342/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Copiah County, MS
Position in the state cohort
Copiah County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Mississippi counties
At 341.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Copiah County ranks 3 of 43 — above 40 of the 42 other Mississippi counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +197.0% against the cohort median of 115.1. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 40.6% of the 239 Part I offenses reported in Copiah County for 2024, against a median of 19.8% across comparable Mississippi counties — a gap of 20.8 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.
Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
142
Burglary
37
Larceny-Theft
77
Motor Vehicle Theft
28
Arson
2
Violent Crime
97
Murder
2
Rape
3
Robbery
4
Aggravated Assault
88
Reporting Agency
Copiah County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Copiah County's crime figures on this page originate from Copiah County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Counties in Mississippi
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Mississippi counties closest to Copiah County in population. Their populations run from 25,949 to 29,087, against 28,368 here. Or launch the
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.
County Table 10 totals are voluntary agency filings: incomplete coverage is not a county crime measure, and a countywide figure is not a neighbourhood verdict.