CrimeMetric

Crime in Yazoo City, Mississippi

Major crime in Yazoo City is 36% below the U.S. rate per resident: 30% lower for persons crimes and 38% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.9% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
64
36% below the U.S. rate
15% below the Mississippi rate
down 8.9% in a year
Persons crimes
70
30% below the U.S. rate
10% above the Mississippi rate
down 5.4% in a year
Property crimes
63
38% below the U.S. rate
20% below the Mississippi rate
down 9.8% in a year
Social disorder
158
1.6 times the U.S. rate
41% above the Mississippi rate
down 6.4% 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 2.8 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Yazoo City 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 Yazoo City

The middle half of Yazoo City residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 35 and 88; the typical (median) resident's is 52. The citywide figure (64) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Yazoo City, 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.
  • 0–5043.0%
  • 50–10051.5%
  • 100–2005.5%
  • 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 weekday daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm73
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am56
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm64
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am55
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.9% in a year; across Mississippi it fell 8.3%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.9%MS -8.3%-26.3%MS -15.7%
Persons crimes-5.4%MS -9.6%-15.8%MS -3.9%
Property crimes-9.8%MS -8.1%-28.9%MS -17.9%
Social disorder-6.4%MS -8.3%-22.3%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

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

1,224 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Yazoo City; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Kapaa, HI10,225109
Yazoo City, MS10,21864

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

Nearby places

Yazoo City 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, Canton (28 mi), is 30% below Yazoo City's rate.

Jackson39 mi150
Flowood41 mi87
Ridgeland35 mi80
Beechwood44 mi64
Yazoo City64
Hollandale35 mi64
Clinton36 mi47
Canton28 mi45
Pearl44 mi35

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

Questions about crime in Yazoo City

What are the most common crimes in Yazoo City?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 44 a year), burglary (about 20 a year) and aggravated assault (about 15 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.8 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. Yazoo City's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Yazoo City 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: 10,218. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Yazoo City, Mississippi." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ms/yazoo-city

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100