State crime profile · 2024

Mississippi Crime Rates: Safest & Most Dangerous Cities

Crime data for 63 cities and 43 of 82 counties in Mississippi (MS), ranked safest to most dangerous from 307 reporting agencies.

Data updated 2026-09-05

142.7
Violent / 100K
952.6
Property / 100K
63
Cities
43
Counties

Mississippi violent crime is 142.7 per 100,000, 59% below the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mississippi records 142.7 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, 59% below the national average (about the 3rd-safest of 51 states and D.C.). Statewide averages hide city and county variation; UCR participation is voluntary.

  • 142.7 violent crimes per 100K
  • -59% vs. the U.S. average
  • 175 Southaven violent-crime reports, volume #1 of 10
  • 391/100K Tupelo rate #1 (volume #2)

How safe is Mississippi? FBI UCR data snapshot

Mississippi (MS) reported 4,201 violent crimes and 28,036 property crimes in 2024, based on FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program submissions from 307 law enforcement agencies. That translates to a statewide violent crime rate of 142.7 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 952.6 per 100,000 against a reporting population of 2,943,045. The PlainCrime dataset indexes 63 Mississippi cities and 43 counties, each with their own detail pages and local crime figures drawn from FBI UCR Tables 8 and 10.

The FBI's state-level summary reports violent and property crime as aggregate totals rather than broken out by individual offense type (murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, arson). For an offense-by-offense breakdown, see the individual city and county pages for Mississippi below, which draw on FBI UCR Tables 8 and 10 and do report each offense type separately.

Across 11 years of state-level UCR history (2014–2024), the violent crime rate moved from 175.8 to 142.7 per 100,000, a decline of 18.8%. City-level detail pages within Mississippi include safety grades (A+ to F), benchmarks against national averages, per-capita risk estimates, and multi-year trend tables for users comparing specific jurisdictions. All figures above are drawn from FBI UCR 2024 submissions; reporting completeness varies by agency, and the FBI periodically restates prior-year figures as late submissions arrive.

How Mississippi ranks nationally

Mississippi vs. every U.S. state

Violent crime per 100,000 residents, FBI UCR 2024. Lower is safer.

143 Safer than 94% among 51 U.S. states

MS 0 1,100+ every state & DC, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band of values; taller bars hold more U.S. states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · 2024

Safest cities · Most dangerous cities · Crime trends

Crime Trends

Year Population Violent Crime Rate Property Crime Rate
2024 2,943,045 4,201 142.7 28,036 952.6
2023 2,939,690 3,983 135.5 31,221 1062.1
2022 2,940,057 4,542 154.5 33,254 1131.1
2021 2,949,965 4,354 147.6 33,474 1134.7
2020 2,966,786 5,969 201.2 44,891 1513.1
2019 2,976,149 4,595 154.4 42,136 1415.8
2018 2,986,530 4,431 148.4 41,960 1405
2017 2,984,100 4,796 160.7 47,324 1585.9
2016 2,988,726 5,036 168.5 51,124 1710.6
2015 2,992,333 4,924 164.6 53,379 1783.9
2014 2,994,079 5,263 175.8 57,223 1911.2

Cities in Mississippi

Safest cities in Mississippi

Cities with 25,000+ residents, lowest violent crime per 100,000, FBI UCR 2024. Hover a bar for the exact rate.

/100K

What this shows Madison is the safest sizeable city in Mississippi, at 57 violent crimes per 100,000.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024

Highest violent-crime cities in Mississippi

Cities with 25,000+ residents, highest violent crime per 100,000, FBI UCR 2024. Hover a bar for the exact rate.

/100K

What this shows Tupelo reports the highest big-city violent-crime rate in Mississippi, at 391 per 100,000.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024

Southaven recorded 175 violent-crime reports (#1 of 10) at 304.2 per 100,000 (rate #2). Tupelo recorded 147 (#2) at 391 per 100,000 (#1). These are FBI UCR 2024 agency submissions, not a personal risk forecast.

Volume #1 is not rate #1 among Mississippi cities

Violent-crime rate per 100,000 for the count leader and the rate leader among cities with 25,000+ residents, FBI UCR 2024. Each tooltip identifies the relevant rate or volume rank; chart row is not a state rank.

/100K

What this shows Southaven recorded 175 violent-crime reports (#1 of 10) at 304.2 per 100,000 (rate #2). Tupelo recorded 147 (#2) at 391 per 100,000 (#1). These are FBI UCR 2024 agency submissions, not a personal risk forecast.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024
Mississippi's largest cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 10 cities; the anchor is ringed. Mississippi's largest cities, violent vs. property crime 51 422 Violent crime per 100K → 337 4,079 Property crime per 100K → Southaven Hattiesburg Olive Branch Tupelo SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME PROPERTY-HEAVY VIOLENT-HEAVY Safety grade A / B C D / F
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are Mississippi's statewide averages · the four largest cities are labeled
Read the chart as a list
  • Southaven: 304 violent, 2025 property per 100,000 (grade C)
  • Hattiesburg: 222 violent, 3465 property per 100,000 (grade C)
  • Olive Branch: 199 violent, 1359 property per 100,000 (grade B)
  • Tupelo: 391 violent, 3777 property per 100,000 (grade D)
  • Madison: 57 violent, 388 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
  • Oxford: 127 violent, 1853 property per 100,000 (grade B)
  • Horn Lake: 110 violent, 1399 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Clinton: 69 violent, 1206 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Brandon: 89 violent, 374 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Starkville: 83 violent, 2036 property per 100,000 (grade B)
A

Mississippi safety livability score: 95/100

Percentile-benchmarked against all 51 tracked states, 2024 FBI UCR data.

  • Violent crime rate

    142.7/100K · A (94th percentile)

  • Property crime rate

    952.6/100K · A (96th percentile)

  • Murder rate

    N/A, dropped from score, weight redistributed

City Population Violent / 100K Grade
Southaven 57,537
304.2
C
Hattiesburg 48,307
221.5
C
Olive Branch 47,178
199.2
B
Tupelo 37,593
391
D
Madison 28,064
57
A+
Oxford 27,529
127.1
B
Horn Lake 26,378
109.9
A
Clinton 26,285
68.5
A
Brandon 25,905
88.8
A
Starkville 25,344
82.9
B
Ridgeland 24,407
319.6
C
Pascagoula 21,455
326.3
D
Vicksburg 19,785
616.6
F
Gautier 19,023
247.1
C
Hernando 18,579
91.5
A
Long Beach 17,053
82.1
A
Laurel 16,922
1,051.9
F
Corinth 14,142
353.6
D
Byram 12,526
95.8
A
Picayune 11,860
185.5
C
Petal 11,505
130.4
A
Bay St. Louis 10,901
119.3
B
Cleveland 10,165
383.7
D
West Point 9,665
507
D
Booneville 9,075
242.4
C
Senatobia 8,263
229.9
B
New Albany 7,733
77.6
A
Richland 7,486
53.4
A
Batesville 7,272
343.8
D
Waveland 6,923
72.2
B
Philadelphia 6,867
524.2
D
Kosciusko 6,765
177.4
B
Pass Christian 6,435
0
A+
Amory 6,346
630.3
F
Pontotoc 5,966
251.4
C
Forest 5,232
707.2
F
Fulton 4,537
154.3
B
Waynesboro 4,521
929
F
Ellisville 4,513
66.5
A
Wiggins 4,257
305.4
C
Magee 3,913
562.2
F
Water Valley 3,384
531.9
F
Lucedale 3,119
448.9
D
Iuka 3,056
163.6
B
Poplarville 2,816
248.6
B
Guntown 2,433
82.2
A
Mendenhall 2,127
188.1
B
Union 1,992
251
B
Purvis 1,958
51.1
A
Quitman 1,947
0
A
Raymond 1,864
53.6
A
Wesson 1,785
224.1
B
Bay Springs 1,579
316.7
B
Bruce 1,579
380
B
Ackerman 1,558
64.2
A
Vardaman 1,041
288.2
B
Mathiston 862
0
A+
Tunica 861
116.1
A
Walnut 675
444.4
C
Heidelberg 609
164.2
B
Smithville 513
0
A
Puckett 348
0
A+
Seminary 291
0
A+

Counties in Mississippi

43 of 82 Census county-equivalents (52.4%) appear in FBI Table 10 for this vintage. Missing counties are absent from the FBI source for this year, not dropped by PlainCrime. See national county coverage and methodology.

Largest counties in Mississippi, violent crime per 100K

Top 8 counties by population, violent crime per 100,000 residents. Hover a bar for the exact rate.

/100K
Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024
Alcorn
Attala
Calhoun
Claiborne
Coahoma
Copiah
DeSoto
Forrest
George
Grenada
Hancock
Harrison
Jasper
Jefferson
Kemper
Lafayette
Leake
Lee
Lincoln
Lowndes
Madison
Marion
Monroe
Neshoba
Noxubee
Oktibbeha
Panola
Pike
Pontotoc
Prentiss
Simpson
Smith
Stone
Sunflower
Tallahatchie
Tate
Tishomingo
Tunica
Union
Walthall
Wayne
Webster
Winston

Nationwide peers for Mississippi

Similar violent rate (~142.7/100K)

Similar property rate (~952.6/100K)

Nearby States

Michigan
MI
Minnesota
MN
Missouri
MO
Montana
MT
Nebraska
NE

Safest cities · Most dangerous · Trends · National rankings · Crime grades · Compare · Methodology

Primary source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States annual release. State-level trends cross-check against the FBI Crime Data Explorer (CDE) API.

Population figures for rate calculations reference U.S. Census Bureau estimates where FBI-reported populations are unavailable. Verify with Census.gov QuickFacts.

Read our methodology , how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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