Crime in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
Major crime in Bay St. Louis is 11% above the U.S. rate per resident: 65% lower for persons crimes and 28% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.8% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Simple assault and other larceny stand out most, at about 1.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Bay St. Louis for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Bay St. Louis
The middle half of Bay St. Louis residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 83 and 120; the typical (median) resident's is 120.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10049.2%
- 100–20043.6%
- 200–4007.2%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.8% in a year; across Mississippi it fell 8.3%
Change in expected crimes, with Mississippi as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Bay St. Louis against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
547 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Bay St. Louis; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Bay St. Louis has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Waveland (2 mi), is about Bay St. Louis's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Bay St. Louis
What are the most common crimes in Bay St. Louis?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 97 a year), theft from vehicle (about 32 a year) and burglary (about 28 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 1.9 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Bay St. Louis's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Bay St. Louis has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 10,433. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ms/bay-st-louis
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Waveland2 mi111
- Diamondhead5 mi28
- Pass Christian7 mi64
- Long Beach12 mi42
- Gulfport18 mi220
- Picayune24 mi85
- Slidell, LA25 mi88
- Biloxi25 mi172