Table 10

MISSISSIPPI
Offenses Known to Law Enforcement
by State by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2007
[The data shown in this table do not reflect county totals but are the number of offenses reported by the sheriff's office or county police department.]

Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan Counties	County	Violent crime	Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter	Forcible rape	Robbery	Aggravated assault	Property crime	Burglary	Larceny- theft	Motor vehicle theft	Arson¹
Metropolitan Counties	DeSoto	29	0	4	6	19	604	108	406	90	5
	Jackson	125	6	15	16	88	2,050	533	1,231	286	0
	Lamar	61	0	21	14	26	757	262	446	49	1
	Rankin	64	1	8	5	50	702	280	387	35	5
	Tate	10	1	1	0	8	266	94	128	44	0
	Tunica	99	3	3	29	64	744	112	575	57
Nonmetropolitan Counties	Adams	41	2	10	6	23	529	169	310	50	12
	Chickasaw	21	2	0	3	16	38	20	16	2	0
	Claiborne	33	0	6	10	17	188	122	64	2	0
	Coahoma	7	0	0	3	4	146	60	65	21	0
	Grenada	11	1	1	4	5	131	37	63	31	1
	Jefferson	44	0	1	4	39	45	22	22	1	5
	Lauderdale	34	1	13	7	13	569	293	229	47	5
	Leake	0	0	0	0	0	28	15	11	2	1
	Lee	77	0	10	10	57	700	275	351	74	11
	Leflore	132	1	9	6	116	580	244	306	30	0
	Lincoln	14	2	1	1	10	337	71	238	28	2
	Lowndes	89	0	32	18	39	495	126	338	31	2
	Oktibbeha²	50	0	2	6	42	158	80	61	17	11
	Panola	55	0	8	12	35	456	202	223	31	4
	Pearl River	24	1	15	5	3	712	319	342	51	5
	Pike	33	2	0	8	23	499	192	269	38
	Tippah	24	3	1	2	18	44	17	23	4	19
	Union	11	0	1	2	8	211	112	87	12	5
	Warren	15	0	2	2	11	339	118	181	40	0
	Washington	17	3	3	4	7	340	119	194	27	3
	Winston	33	1	1	1	30	25	10	14	1	0

¹ The FBI does not publish arson data unless it receives data from either the agency or the state for all 12 months of the calendar year.
² Because of changes in the state/local agency's reporting practices, figures are not comparable to previous years' data.

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