CrimeMetric

Crime in Long Beach, Mississippi

Major crime in Long Beach is 58% below the U.S. rate per resident: 83% lower for persons crimes and 52% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.6% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
42
58% below the U.S. rate
44% below the Mississippi rate
down 7.6% in a year
Persons crimes
17
83% below the U.S. rate
74% below the Mississippi rate
down 6.2% in a year
Property crimes
48
52% below the U.S. rate
39% below the Mississippi rate
down 7.7% in a year
Social disorder
80
20% below the U.S. rate
29% below the Mississippi rate
down 5.8% 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

No crime type in Long Beach is more than 10% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Long Beach 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 Long Beach

The middle half of Long Beach residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 25 and 71; the typical (median) resident's is 27. The citywide figure (42) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Long Beach, 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.
  • 0–5064.9%
  • 50–10035.1%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+0.0%

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

When it happens

Highest in the daytime

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm47
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am38
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm47
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am34
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.6% in a year; across Mississippi it fell 8.3%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.6%MS -8.3%-12.2%MS -15.7%
Persons crimes-6.2%MS -9.6%+1.1%MS -3.9%
Property crimes-7.7%MS -8.1%-13.3%MS -17.9%
Social disorder-5.8%MS -8.3%-5.7%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

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

1,687 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Long Beach; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Payson, AZ17,149171
Pendleton, OR17,136146
Ladson, SC17,14169
Hollins, VA17,14057
Long Beach, MS17,12142

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

Nearby places

Long Beach has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Pass Christian (5 mi), is 1.5 times Long Beach's rate.

D'Iberville17 mi225
Gulfport7 mi220
Biloxi14 mi172
Waveland14 mi111
St. Martin19 mi73
Long Beach42

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

Questions about crime in Long Beach

What are the most common crimes in Long Beach?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 48 a year), theft from vehicle (about 27 a year) and shoplifting (about 22 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 8% above 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. Long Beach's figures add up its 15 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Long Beach 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: 17,121. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Long Beach, Mississippi." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ms/long-beach

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100