Decision-support ranking comparing Mississippi cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.
Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.
| # | Place | Metric | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vicksburg Violent Crime has declined 2% since 2021. |
4.8 / 1k | → |
| 2 | Water Valley Violent Crime has declined 13% since 2021. |
4.1 / 1k | → |
| 3 | Tupelo Violent Crime has declined 5% since 2022. |
3.5 / 1k | → |
| 4 | Ridgeland Violent Crime has declined 26% since 2021. |
3.1 / 1k | → |
| 5 | Southaven Violent Crime has increased 16% since 2021. |
2.9 / 1k | → |
| 6 | Pascagoula Violent Crime has declined 3% since 2021. |
2.8 / 1k | → |
| 7 | Gautier Violent Crime has declined 13% since 2021. |
2.6 / 1k | → |
| 8 | Hattiesburg Violent Crime has declined 47% since 2021. |
1.8 / 1k | → |
| 9 | Olive Branch Violent Crime has declined 43% since 2021. |
1.6 / 1k | → |
| 10 | Gulfport Violent Crime has declined 52% since 2021. |
1.5 / 1k | → |
| 11 | Petal Violent Crime moved up by 0.5 / 1k from 0.9 / 1k in 2021 to 1.4 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
1.4 / 1k | → |
| 12 | Oxford Violent Crime has increased 8% since 2021. |
1.3 / 1k | → |
| 13 | Horn Lake Violent Crime has declined 10% since 2021. |
0.9 / 1k | → |
| 14 | Brandon Violent Crime moved up by 0.3 / 1k from 0.6 / 1k in 2021 to 0.9 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
0.9 / 1k | → |
| 15 | Hernando Violent Crime moved up by 0.1 / 1k from 0.8 / 1k in 2021 to 0.9 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
0.9 / 1k | → |
| 16 | Biloxi Violent Crime has declined 75% since 2021. |
0.8 / 1k | → |
| 17 | Ocean Springs Violent Crime has declined 38% since 2021. |
0.8 / 1k | → |
| 18 | Starkville Violent Crime has declined 33% since 2021. |
0.8 / 1k | → |
| 19 | Clinton Violent Crime has declined 65% since 2021. |
0.7 / 1k | → |
| 20 | Madison Violent Crime moved up by 0.4 / 1k from 0.2 / 1k in 2021 to 0.6 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
0.6 / 1k | → |
| 21 | Long Beach Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period. |
0.5 / 1k | → |
| 22 | Flowood Violent Crime has declined 95% since 2021. |
0.1 / 1k | → |
This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Mississippi cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.
A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.