County crime profile · 2024 · small county · property-led
Tunica County, MS
Tunica County is a small county (9,782 people) in Mississippi. FBI Table 10 county totals lead; rates appear only with a verified Census population join.
Tunica County, MS reported 521 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Tunica County, MS agencies reported 51 violent and 383 property offenses. That equals about 521 violent and 3915 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
51 violent offenses
521/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Tunica County, MS
Position in the state cohort
Tunica County reported the highest violent-crime rate among comparable Mississippi counties
At 521.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Tunica County ranks 1 of 43 — above 42 of the 42 other Mississippi counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +352.9% 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
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 11.8% of the 434 Part I offenses reported in Tunica County for 2024, against a median of 19.9% across comparable Mississippi counties — a gap of 8.2 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 75.5% of reported property offenses in Tunica County, against a cohort median of 56.9%. The remainder is burglary (35) and motor vehicle theft (59). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 572.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 521.4 in 2024 (-8.9%). The highest observed value was 807.6 in 2023 and the lowest 521.4 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-county UCR rows are especially sensitive to which agencies filed. Per-100,000 rates use a matched 2020 Census population when available; otherwise counts only. Do not treat the county total as a town-level crime level.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · small county
Category
Count
Property Crime
383
Burglary
35
Larceny-Theft
289
Motor Vehicle Theft
59
Arson
0
Violent Crime
51
Murder
4
Rape
8
Robbery
7
Aggravated Assault
32
Reporting Agency
Tunica County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Tunica County's crime figures on this page originate from Tunica 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
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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.