County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
DeSoto County, MS
At 185,314 residents, DeSoto County is a large county in Mississippi. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
DeSoto County, MS reported 17 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, DeSoto County, MS agencies reported 32 violent and 180 property offenses. That equals about 17 violent and 97 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
32 violent offenses
17/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for DeSoto County, MS
Position in the state cohort
DeSoto County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Mississippi counties
At 17.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, DeSoto County ranks 43 of 43 — above 0 of the 42 other Mississippi counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -85.6% against the cohort median of 119.8. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 29.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 17.3 in 2024 (-41.8%). The highest observed value was 29.7 in 2020 and the lowest 16.7 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 15.1% of the 212 Part I offenses reported in DeSoto County for 2024, against a median of 19.9% across comparable Mississippi counties — a gap of 4.8 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.
On a large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
180
Burglary
26
Larceny-Theft
105
Motor Vehicle Theft
49
Arson
1
Violent Crime
32
Murder
1
Rape
11
Robbery
3
Aggravated Assault
17
Reporting Agency
DeSoto County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
DeSoto County's crime figures on this page originate from DeSoto 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 DeSoto County in population. Their populations run from 58,879 to 208,621, against 185,314 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.