City Population Violent / 100K Property / 100K Grade
Southaven 57,537 304.2 2,024.8 C
Hattiesburg 48,307 221.5 3,465.3 C
Olive Branch 47,178 199.2 1,358.7 B
Tupelo 37,593 391 3,777.3 D
Madison 28,064 57 388.4 A+
Oxford 27,529 127.1 1,852.6 B
Horn Lake 26,378 109.9 1,398.9 A
Clinton 26,285 68.5 1,206 A
Brandon 25,905 88.8 374.4 A
Starkville 25,344 82.9 2,036 B
Ridgeland 24,407 319.6 1,380.8 C
Pascagoula 21,455 326.3 4,870.7 D
Vicksburg 19,785 616.6 3,811 F
Gautier 19,023 247.1 1,924 C
Hernando 18,579 91.5 473.7 A
Long Beach 17,053 82.1 991 A
Laurel 16,922 1,051.9 3,788 F
Corinth 14,142 353.6 3,139.6 D
Byram 12,526 95.8 958 A
Picayune 11,860 185.5 2,698.1 C
Petal 11,505 130.4 391.1 A
Bay St. Louis 10,901 119.3 2,357.6 B
Cleveland 10,165 383.7 2,843.1 D
West Point 9,665 507 2,079.7 D
Booneville 9,075 242.4 3,647.4 C
Senatobia 8,263 229.9 1,609.6 B
New Albany 7,733 77.6 1,138 A
Richland 7,486 53.4 1,028.6 A
Batesville 7,272 343.8 4,758 D
Waveland 6,923 72.2 2,643.4 B
Philadelphia 6,867 524.2 2,490.2 D
Kosciusko 6,765 177.4 1,626 B
Pass Christian 6,435 0 808.1 A+
Amory 6,346 630.3 2,505.5 F
Pontotoc 5,966 251.4 1,877.3 C
Forest 5,232 707.2 879.2 F
Fulton 4,537 154.3 1,631 B
Waynesboro 4,521 929 1,636.8 F
Ellisville 4,513 66.5 1,418.1 A
Wiggins 4,257 305.4 3,124.3 C
Magee 3,913 562.2 2,300 F
Water Valley 3,384 531.9 2,896 F
Lucedale 3,119 448.9 3,558.8 D
Iuka 3,056 163.6 1,079.8 B
Poplarville 2,816 248.6 1,278.4 B
Guntown 2,433 82.2 1,109.7 A
Mendenhall 2,127 188.1 987.3 B
Union 1,992 251 552.2 B
Purvis 1,958 51.1 970.4 A
Quitman 1,947 0 1,438.1 A
Raymond 1,864 53.6 643.8 A
Wesson 1,785 224.1 1,064.4 B
Bay Springs 1,579 316.7 886.6 B
Bruce 1,579 380 253.3 B
Ackerman 1,558 64.2 1,091.1 A
Vardaman 1,041 288.2 192.1 B
Mathiston 862 0 580 A+
Tunica 861 116.1 580.7 A
Walnut 675 444.4 888.9 C
Heidelberg 609 164.2 1,642 B
Smithville 513 0 1,559.5 A
Puckett 348 0 0 A+
Seminary 291 0 343.6 A+
Showing cities 1–63 of 63 in Mississippi, by population. See the Mississippi safest and most dangerous city rankings, or the Mississippi crime overview.

How These City Grades Are Calculated

Each grade weighs a city's violent crime rate (70%) and property crime rate (30%) against the national averages, drawn from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States, Table 8 for 2024. Rates use (offenses ÷ population) × 100,000.

UCR participation is voluntary, so not every Mississippi city reports every year, and small-population cities can show volatile rates where a single incident moves the per-capita figure sharply. Read the full methodology for the scoring formula and limitations.