Crime in Mississippi (2024)
Mississippi agencies reported 25,063 offenses to the FBI in 2024: 3,383 violent crimes, 21,539 property crimes and 141 arsons, across 141 reporting agencies.
Per 100,000 residents
Against a 2024 population of 2,950,172 (Census estimates). A floor: Mississippi agencies that did not report contribute nothing.
Offenses by category
| Offense | Offenses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Murder & nonnegligent manslaughter | 116 | 0.5% |
| Rape | 493 | 2.0% |
| Robbery | 291 | 1.2% |
| Aggravated assault | 2,483 | 9.9% |
| Burglary | 3,817 | 15.2% |
| Larceny-theft | 15,406 | 61.5% |
| Motor vehicle theft | 2,316 | 9.2% |
| Arson | 141 | 0.6% |
By county
Counties with sufficient reporting coverage (45 of Mississippi's counties).
- Alcorn County
- Amite County
- Attala County
- Calhoun County
- Chickasaw County
- Choctaw County
- Claiborne County
- Clay County
- Copiah County
- DeSoto County
- Forrest County
- George County
- Greene County
- Hancock County
- Jasper County
- Jefferson County
- Kemper County
- Lafayette County
- Leake County
- Lee County
- Lincoln County
- Lowndes County
- Madison County
- Marion County
- Monroe County
- Neshoba County
- Noxubee County
- Oktibbeha County
- Panola County
- Pearl River County
- Pike County
- Pontotoc County
- Prentiss County
- Simpson County
- Smith County
- Stone County
- Tallahatchie County
- Tate County
- Tishomingo County
- Tunica County
- Union County
- Walthall County
- Wayne County
- Webster County
- Winston County
Largest reporting agencies
| Agency | Violent | Property | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hattiesburg Police Department | 107 | 1,674 | 1,786 |
| Tupelo Police Department | 147 | 1,420 | 1,573 |
| Southaven Police Department | 175 | 1,165 | 1,342 |
| Pascagoula Police Department | 70 | 1,045 | 1,118 |
| Vicksburg Police Department | 122 | 754 | 882 |
| Laurel Police Department | 178 | 641 | 832 |
| Olive Branch Police Department | 94 | 641 | 735 |
| Harrison County Sheriff's Office | 49 | 490 | 546 |
| Oxford Police Department | 35 | 510 | 546 |
| Starkville Police Department | 21 | 516 | 539 |
| Corinth Police Department | 50 | 444 | 498 |
| Tunica County Sheriff's Office | 51 | 383 | 434 |
| Lee County Sheriff's Office | 51 | 366 | 425 |
| Ridgeland Police Department | 78 | 337 | 415 |
| Gautier Police Department | 47 | 366 | 413 |
How to read these numbers
Counts are offenses reported by law-enforcement agencies to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program for 2024(Return A master file, which incorporates the FBI's own NIBRS-to-SRS conversion for agencies that report incident-based data). Nothing here is estimated: an agency that did not report contributes nothing, so totals are floors, not universes.
County figures use headquarters-county assignment: an agency's offenses count in the county where it is headquartered. Sheriff and state-police activity can span county lines; a county's figure is best read as "offenses reported by agencies based here." Counties where reporting agencies cover less than half of the policed population get no page; between 50% and 80% the page carries a visible partial-coverage notice.
Rates per 100,000 residentsuse Census Population Estimates (PEP) for the same year as the crime data. They appear only where the population served by agencies headquartered in a county is within 10% of the population that lives there. Where a police force covers several counties — the NYPD polices five boroughs from its Manhattan headquarters — the two geographies disagree, and a rate would be wrong by several times over in both directions. Those counties show counts without a rate rather than a number that looks authoritative and isn't.
Because non-reporting agencies contribute nothing, every rate here is a floor: the true rate is at least this high. Rates are most comparable between places with similar reporting coverage, which each page states.
Violent crime = murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault. Property crime = burglary + larceny-theft + motor vehicle theft. Arson is tracked separately (from the FBI's de-duplicated SRS/NIBRS arson data) and is excluded from the property composite, following FBI practice. Aggravated assault excludes simple assault.
These figures will not match the FBI's published national estimates(which impute for non-reporting agencies) or the 12-month quarterly trend windows elsewhere on this site — different universes, both documented.