Photo: Kevin magee · CC BY-SA 4.0Safety in Pearl: figures, but no grade
Of the graded towns, Flowood is the closest, at C+. Pearl’s police reported to the FBI for 2025 but not 2023 or 2024, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025.
For every 1,000 residents, about 7 property crimes reported
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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
The years Pearl’s police reported
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| Year | Pearl | Rest of Mississippi | Pearl | Rest of Mississippi |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | not reported | 25.1 | not reported | 2.9 |
| 2023 | not reported | 24.5 | not reported | 2.5 |
| 2024 | not reported | 22.1 | not reported | 2.5 |
| 2025 | 6.5 | 19.5 | 0.8 | 3.1 |
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.
210 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.
24 violent and 186 property, as reported to the FBI by Pearl’s police.
The nearest Mississippi towns with a Safety Grade
Straight-line distance from the center of Pearl. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Pearl.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Seven people died in crashes on Pearl’s roads in 2019–2023
Pearl had 7 fatal crashes in five years, in which seven people died. 3 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is fewer than is typical for Mississippi towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (11.4 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Pearl’s size would see about 16 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Pearl’s own rate (5.0) is context, not a ranking.
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.
Pearl and its neighbors
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Jackson reported to the FBI for 2025 but not 2023 or 2024.
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 Pearl. 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 Pearl’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (28,811 in 2025); our figure for Pearl is 28,864 (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 Pearl
Is Pearl, MS safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Pearl. The nearest Mississippi towns with a grade are Flowood (C+, 5 mi), Richland (B, 5 mi), Brandon (A, 6 mi).
Who polices Pearl?
Pearl’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Pearl”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Neighbors looking out for each other in Pearl.
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.