CrimeMetric

Crime in Gautier, Mississippi

Major crime in Gautier is 8% above the U.S. rate per resident: 36% lower for persons crimes and 18% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.1% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
108
8% above the U.S. rate
44% above the Mississippi rate
down 8.1% in a year
Persons crimes
65
36% below the U.S. rate
about the Mississippi rate
down 4.7% in a year
Property crimes
118
18% above the U.S. rate
1.5 times the Mississippi rate
down 8.5% in a year
Social disorder
114
14% above the U.S. rate
about the Mississippi rate
down 5.0% in a year

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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Crime by type

Intimidation stands out most, at 2.4 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Gautier for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Gautier

The middle half of Gautier residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 54 and 95; the typical (median) resident's is 83. The citywide figure (108) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Gautier, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5022.8%
  • 50–10054.7%
  • 100–20011.3%
  • 200–4005.9%
  • 400+5.4%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm136
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am81
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm119
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am77
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.1% in a year; across Mississippi it fell 8.3%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.1%MS -8.3%-12.9%MS -15.7%
Persons crimes-4.7%MS -9.6%0.0%MS -3.9%
Property crimes-8.5%MS -8.1%-14.5%MS -17.9%
Social disorder-5.0%MS -8.3%-5.9%MS -9.9%

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.

Similar-size places

Gautier against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

582 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Gautier; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Gallup, NM21,105302
Gautier, MS21,069108
El Reno, OK21,06868

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Gautier 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, Gulf Park Estates (6 mi), is 65% below Gautier's rate.

Pascagoula8 mi245
Moss Point7 mi111
Gautier108
Escatawpa8 mi89
St. Martin13 mi73
Vancleave9 mi67
Gulf Hills10 mi60

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Gautier

What are the most common crimes in Gautier?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 109 a year), other larceny (about 97 a year) and shoplifting (about 71 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 2.4 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. Gautier's figures add up its 16 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Gautier has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 5.4% 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: 21,069. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Gautier, Mississippi." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ms/gautier

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100