CrimeMetric

Crime in New Albany, Mississippi

Major crime in New Albany is 47% below the U.S. rate per resident: 73% lower for persons crimes and 41% lower 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

Major crime
53
47% below the U.S. rate
30% below the Mississippi rate
down 8.8% in a year
Persons crimes
27
73% below the U.S. rate
57% below the Mississippi rate
down 5.2% in a year
Property crimes
59
41% below the U.S. rate
25% below the Mississippi rate
down 9.1% in a year
Social disorder
123
23% above the U.S. rate
10% above the Mississippi rate
down 7.5% 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

Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 3.8 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in New Albany 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 New Albany

The middle half of New Albany residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 34 and 45; the typical (median) resident's is 35. The citywide figure (53) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of New Albany, 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.
  • 0–5085.1%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–20014.9%
  • 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 on weekend daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm67
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am34
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm77
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am30
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.8% in a year; across Mississippi it fell 8.3%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.8%MS -8.3%-17.4%MS -15.7%
Persons crimes-5.2%MS -9.6%-0.9%MS -3.9%
Property crimes-9.1%MS -8.1%-19.1%MS -17.9%
Social disorder-7.5%MS -8.3%-11.4%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

New Albany against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

1,286 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than New Albany; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Berkeley, MO8,252345
New Albany, MS8,25453
Butler, NJ8,24634

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

Nearby places

New Albany has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Pontotoc (17 mi), is 1.6 times New Albany's rate.

Tupelo22 mi203
Booneville28 mi152
Pontotoc17 mi86
Oxford31 mi81
Baldwyn22 mi69
New Albany53
Ripley17 mi47
Saltillo20 mi45

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

Questions about crime in New Albany

What are the most common crimes in New Albany?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 33 a year), burglary (about 19 a year) and other larceny (about 12 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 3.8 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. New Albany's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • New Albany 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: 8,254. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in New Albany, Mississippi." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ms/new-albany

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100