Table 8

MISSISSIPPI
Offenses Known to Law Enforcement
by State by City, 2008

City	Population	Violent crime	Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter	Forcible rape	Robbery	Aggravated assault	Property crime	Burglary	Larceny- theft	Motor vehicle theft	Arson¹
Aberdeen	6,025	30	0	2	9	19	135	42	84	9	0
Ackerman	1,504	2	1	0	0	1	4	0	3	1	0
Amory	7,219	17	0	2	11	4	293	55	231	7	1
Batesville	7,815	40	0	7	11	22	529	133	376	20	0
Bay St. Louis	8,200	10	0	3	4	3	322	59	242	21	2
Booneville	8,532	10	0	3	1	6	291	69	222	0	2
Brandon	21,151	10	0	4	3	3	240	60	169	11	5
Brookhaven	9,997	27	0	0	23	4	342	38	296	8	0
Byhalia	1,300	7	1	0	0	6	60	15	41	4	0
Canton	12,469	66	1	13	16	36	481	235	225	21	0
Charleston	1,884	31	1	0	21	9	87	26	61	0	0
Clarksdale	18,029	139	5	14	56	64	998	495	432	71	9
Cleveland	12,292	74	0	0	33	41	942	159	771	12	10
Clinton	26,564	33	0	9	16	8	501	144	305	52	2
Collins	2,746	9	0	1	2	6	175	25	139	11	0
Columbus	23,802	97	1	16	45	35	966	199	725	42	7
Drew	2,174	26	0	5	3	18	77	54	22	1
Edwards	1,302	1	0	0	0	1	7	5	1	1	0
Florence	3,520	0	0	0	0	0	18	7	6	5	1
Flowood	7,156	36	0	4	6	26	521	123	383	15	0
Fulton	4,067	2	0	0	2	0	83	14	64	5	0
Greenville	35,573	91	7	9	51	24	2,112	910	1,154	48	37
Greenwood	15,886	118	2	8	43	65	1,149	454	636	59	0
Grenada	14,664	83	0	4	38	41	698	204	465	29	1
Gulfport	65,704	221	8	20	122	71	3,997	946	2,824	227	19
Heidelberg	802	0	0	0	0	0	44	8	32	4	0
Hernando	11,694	14	0	5	2	7	290	62	214	14	0
Hollandale	2,942	6	0	0	2	4	60	25	34	1	1
Holly Springs	8,037	88	1	2	19	66	309	132	151	26	0
Horn Lake	24,692	36	3	1	23	9	784	124	598	62	5
Iuka	2,933	15	1	0	1	13	83	23	52	8	0
Jackson	174,734	1,652	63	136	942	511	13,035	4,334	6,990	1,711	81
Kosciusko	7,362	19	1	7	5	6	197	68	129	0	0
Laurel	18,415	101	4	3	51	43	1,015	269	683	63	5
Leakesville	1,023	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Leland	4,783	13	0	0	3	10	145	70	74	1	0
Lexington	1,856	2	0	0	0	2	16	11	4	1	0
Long Beach	17,528	9	0	1	3	5	272	43	209	20	0
Louisville	6,633	15	0	1	9	5	76	66	10	0	0
Lucedale	3,065	18	0	0	2	16	120	26	80	14	0
Madison	17,858	18	0	5	0	13	202	13	183	6	0
Magnolia	2,091	6	0	0	0	6	44	19	21	4	0
McComb	13,587	56	3	2	27	24	653	150	466	37	0
Meridian	38,123	207	7	30	86	84	1,921	732	1,066	123	16
Morton	3,436	12	0	1	4	7	40	21	15	4	1
Natchez	16,433	52	2	5	16	29	795	238	533	24	1
New Albany	8,106	10	0	0	7	3	95	33	52	10	0
Newton	3,680	4	0	0	1	3	26	8	16	2	1
Ocean Springs²	17,247	26	0	3	12	11			519	26	3
Olive Branch	32,060	79	0	13	28	38	1,394	262	1,063	69	6
Oxford	15,334	17	0	7	5	5	458	98	335	25	0
Pascagoula	23,139	96	0	13	61	22	1,417	301	990	126	7
Pass Christian	7,008	5	0	1	0	4	159	32	119	8	2
Petal	10,717	9	1	2	1	5	98	58	34	6	4
Picayune	11,733	34	1	1	13	19	359	56	273	30	2
Poplarville	2,993	14	0	0	2	12	68	24	42	2	0
Port Gibson	1,647	7	0	2	1	4	22	4	18	0	0
Purvis	2,653	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Raymond	1,675	2	0	0	1	1	10	4	6	0	0
Ridgeland	21,645	38	0	0	17	21	835	93	694	48	0
Ripley	5,682	4	0	1	1	2	112	38	61	13	0
Senatobia	7,197	7	0	0	4	3	259	81	173	5	0
Shelby	2,593	8	0	1	3	4	26	21	3	2	1
Southaven	44,570	84	6	5	37	36	1,927	212	1,603	112	2
Starkville	24,099	41	1	2	10	28	608	184	405	19	1
Summit	1,633	2	0	0	2	0	47	14	32	1	0
Vicksburg	25,345	248	7	25	55	161	1,743	374	1,266	103	11
Waveland	7,212	11	0	0	2	9	392	65	300	27	0
Waynesboro	5,649	21	1	0	13	7	112	65	43	4	0
West Point	11,281	36	0	6	9	21	376	101	274	1	0
Wiggins	4,872	22	0	3	2	17	256	82	171	3	0
Winona	4,579	10	0	1	6	3	21	3	16	2	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 The FBI determined that the agency's data were underreported. Consequently, those data are not included in this table.

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