Photo: Zach123abc · CC BY-SA 3.0What is recorded in Ocean Springs, and why there is no grade
The closest graded town is D'Iberville, 7 miles away, at D. Nearby, 3 communities within 10 miles carry a Safety Grade. Ocean Springs has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on.
For every 1,000 residents, about 23 property crimes reported
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2022
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2022
Crimes reported to police in 2022 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 1 violent crime, in 2022. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
The years Ocean Springs’ police reported
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| Year | Ocean Springs | Rest of Mississippi | Ocean Springs | Rest of Mississippi |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 22.7 | 25.2 | 1.0 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | not reported | 24.5 | not reported | 2.5 |
| 2024 | not reported | 22.1 | not reported | 2.5 |
| 2025 | not reported | 19.1 | not reported | 3.0 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of Mississippi. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.
434 crimes reported in 2022
2022 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
18 violent and 416 property, as reported to the FBI by Ocean Springs’ police.
The nearest Mississippi towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D'Iberville | D | 7 mi | 0.8 | 48.6 |
| Gautier | C | 8 mi | 2.5 | 20.1 |
| Biloxi | D | 9 mi | 3.7 | 30.8 |
| Pascagoula | D | 14 mi | 3.2 | 44.3 |
| Long Beach | B+ | 23 mi | 0.5 | 9.1 |
| Pass Christian | B+ | 27 mi | 0.1 | 12.9 |
Straight-line distance from the center of Ocean Springs. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Ocean Springs.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
11 people died in crashes on Ocean Springs’s roads in 2019–2023
Ocean Springs had 8 fatal crashes in five years, in which 11 people died; 1 was a cyclist.
That is 11.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as 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.
Ocean Springs and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gulf Hills | — | — | — |
| Gulf Park Estates | — | — | — |
| Biloxi | D | 3.7 | 30.8 |
| Gautier | C | 2.5 | 20.1 |
| St. Martin | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Gulf Hills, Gulf Park Estates and St. Martin are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own.
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 Ocean Springs. 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 Ocean Springs’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (18,361 in 2022); our figure for Ocean Springs is 18,993 (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 Ocean Springs
Is Ocean Springs, MS safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Ocean Springs. The nearest Mississippi towns with a grade are D'Iberville (D, 7 mi), Gautier (C, 8 mi), Biloxi (D, 9 mi).
Who polices Ocean Springs?
Ocean Springs’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Ocean Springs”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Neighbors looking out for each other in Ocean Springs.
Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2022, 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.