County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Simpson County, MS
Simpson County (25,949 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Mississippi. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Simpson County, MS reported 135 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Simpson County, MS agencies reported 35 violent and 137 property offenses. That equals about 135 violent and 528 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
35 violent offenses
135/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Simpson County, MS
Position in the state cohort
Simpson County sits mid-pack among comparable Mississippi counties
At 134.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Simpson County ranks 17 of 43 — above 26 of the 42 other Mississippi counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +17.2% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 66.4% of reported property offenses in Simpson County, against a cohort median of 56.9%. The remainder is burglary (22) and motor vehicle theft (24). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
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
137
Burglary
22
Larceny-Theft
91
Motor Vehicle Theft
24
Arson
1
Violent Crime
35
Murder
1
Rape
5
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
28
Reporting Agency
Simpson County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Simpson County's crime figures on this page originate from Simpson 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 Simpson County in population. Their populations run from 24,350 to 27,777, against 25,949 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.