Photo: Ron Cogswell · CC BY 2.0Per resident, Corinth records more crime than 89% of U.S. towns
Violent crime here is higher than in 74% of U.S. towns; property crime, higher than in 93%. What’s more, its letter for safety is D, worked out from crimes Corinth’s police reported over 2023 to 2025: #37 of 45 graded towns in Mississippi. The rate the grade counts dropped 49% from 2023 to 2025. Behind the grade sit 3.1 violent crimes and 33.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 2.7 and 21.4 in the rest of Mississippi.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of MS” is every other Mississippi city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Corinth
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Corinth’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (3.1) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Corinth property | Rest of Mississippi property | Corinth violent | Rest of Mississippi violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 51.2 | 24.6 | 4.9 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 46.7 | 24.2 | 3.7 | 2.5 |
| 2024 | 31.4 | 21.9 | 3.5 | 2.5 |
| 2025 | 23.4 | 19.1 | 2.1 | 3.1 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Mississippi.
Crime in Corinth per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Corinth | Rest of Mississippi | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4.9 | 2.9 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 3.7 | 2.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.5 | 2.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.1 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Corinth’s police reported 132 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.1 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.7 in the rest of Mississippi and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
361 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
30 violent and 331 property, as reported to the FBI by Corinth’s police.
13 people died in crashes on Corinth’s roads in 2019–2023
Corinth had 11 fatal crashes in five years, in which 13 people died; 2 were pedestrians.
That is 18.2 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Mississippi towns of 5,000–25,000 people (11.6, 52 towns).
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Corinth and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corinth | D | 3.1 | 33.9 |
| Farmington | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Farmington has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Mississippi towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corinth | D | 3.1 | 33.9 |
| Petal | A | 0.7 | 4.1 |
| Long Beach | B+ | 0.5 | 9.1 |
| Byram | B | 0.9 | 11.2 |
| Picayune | C− | 2.9 | 24.7 |
| D'Iberville | D | 0.8 | 48.6 |
The five graded Mississippi towns closest to Corinth’s population (14,345), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Corinth. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Corinth’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (14,123 in 2025); our figure for Corinth is 14,345 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Corinth
Is Corinth, MS safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Corinth reports more crime per resident than 89% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #37 of 45 in Mississippi. Its police reported 3.1 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.7 in the rest of Mississippi and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Corinth?
3.1 violent and 33.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Mississippi reports 2.7 and 21.4; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Corinth?
Corinth’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Corinth”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.