Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0The crimes the grade counts fell 57% per resident in New Albany from 2023 to 2025
Each year brought 0.8 violent crime and 13.2 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (2.8 and 21.7 in the rest of Mississippi). Violent crime is lower than in 74% of U.S. towns; property crime, lower than in only 42%. Its letter overall is B (#11 of 45 graded towns in Mississippi): close to the middle of U.S. towns, from crimes its police reported through 2023 to 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 New Albany
Among Mississippi towns, higher
Mississippi’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so New Albany’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 76% of the 45 Mississippi towns we grade, against 55% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
New Albany has 6,567 jobs based in town for 7,756 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
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 New Albany’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds New Albany’s grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (13.2) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) 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 | New Albany property | Rest of Mississippi property | New Albany violent | Rest of Mississippi violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 23.3 | 25.1 | 0.3 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | 19.8 | 24.6 | 1.3 | 2.5 |
| 2024 | 11.4 | 22.2 | 0.8 | 2.6 |
| 2025 | 8.6 | 19.2 | 0.4 | 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | New Albany | Rest of Mississippi | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.3 | 3.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.3 | 2.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.8 | 2.6 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.4 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
New Albany’s police reported 19 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.8 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.8 in the rest of Mississippi and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in New Albany 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 fewer than 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
70 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.
3 violent and 67 property, as reported to the FBI by New Albany’s police.
10 people died in crashes on New Albany’s roads in 2019–2023
New Albany had 8 fatal crashes in five years, in which 10 people died; 3 were pedestrians. 1 died in crash on an Interstate.
That is 26.1 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.
New Albany and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Albany | B | 0.8 | 13.2 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Mississippi towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Albany | B | 0.8 | 13.2 |
| Richland | B | 1.2 | 10.1 |
| Waveland | C+ | 0.5 | 20.7 |
| Senatobia | C | 2.5 | 17.0 |
| Philadelphia | D | 4.4 | 27.9 |
| Batesville | D | 3.2 | 37.7 |
The five graded Mississippi towns closest to New Albany’s population (7,756), 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 New Albany. 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 New Albany’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (7,754 in 2025); our figure for New Albany is 7,756 (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 New Albany
Is New Albany, MS safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, New Albany reports less crime per resident than 55% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #11 of 45 in Mississippi. Its police reported 0.8 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.8 in the rest of Mississippi and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in New Albany?
0.8 violent and 13.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Mississippi reports 2.8 and 21.7; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices New Albany?
New Albany’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “New Albany”. 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.