Reported crime per resident in Gautier fell 16% from 2023 to 2025
Overall, Gautier grades C for safety (#25 of 45 graded towns in Mississippi): more crime per resident than 72% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported to the FBI in 2023–2025.
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 Gautier
Among Mississippi towns, closer to the middle
Mississippi’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Gautier’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 44% of the 45 Mississippi towns we grade, against 28% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
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 Gautier’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 (2.5) 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 is falling
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.
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| Year | Gautier property | Rest of Mississippi property | Gautier violent | Rest of Mississippi violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 21.9 | 25.2 | 3.3 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 22.2 | 24.6 | 2.8 | 2.5 |
| 2024 | 19.2 | 22.1 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| 2025 | 18.9 | 19.1 | 2.2 | 3.1 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Violent crime, by year and by type
Gautier’s police reported 141 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.5 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.7 in the rest of Mississippi and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Gautier | Rest of Mississippi | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.8 | 2.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.2 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
For every 1,000 residents, about 19 property crimes reported
And about 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
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.
401 crimes reported in 2025
41 violent and 360 property, as reported to the FBI by Gautier’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
17 people died in crashes on Gautier’s roads in 2019–2023
Gautier had 17 fatal crashes in five years, in which 17 people died; 6 were pedestrians and 3 were cyclists. 6 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is 17.9 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.
Gautier and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gautier | C | 2.5 | 20.1 |
| Vancleave | — | — | — |
| Ocean Springs | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Vancleave is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own. Ocean Springs has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Mississippi towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gautier | C | 2.5 | 20.1 |
| Hernando | A− | 0.8 | 4.5 |
| Long Beach | B+ | 0.5 | 9.1 |
| Pascagoula | D | 3.2 | 44.3 |
| Vicksburg | D | 6.4 | 37.2 |
| Laurel | D− | 9.4 | 38.7 |
The five graded Mississippi towns closest to Gautier’s population (19,069), by grade.
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 Gautier. 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 Gautier’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (19,065 in 2025); our figure for Gautier is 19,069 (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 Gautier
Is Gautier, MS safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Gautier reports more crime per resident than 72% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #25 of 45 in Mississippi. Its police reported 2.5 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 Gautier?
2.5 violent and 20.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Mississippi reports 2.7 and 21.6; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Gautier?
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
Who polices Gautier?
Gautier’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Gautier”. 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.