Photo: James Case · CC BY 2.0Philadelphia records more property crime per head than 89% of U.S. towns
The rate the grade counts held about level from 2023 to 2025. Out of every 1,000 residents, 4.4 violent crimes and 27.9 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 2.7 and 21.6 in the rest of Mississippi. Overall, it grades D for safety (#33 of 45 graded towns in 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 Philadelphia
Among Mississippi towns, closer to the middle
Mississippi’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Philadelphia’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 27% of the 45 Mississippi towns we grade, against 12% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Philadelphia has 6,174 jobs based in town for 6,858 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Philadelphia’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.
Crime in Philadelphia 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 5 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 | Philadelphia | Rest of Mississippi | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.4 | 2.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 5.2 | 2.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 4.5 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Philadelphia’s police reported 90 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 4.4 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.7 in the rest of Mississippi and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Philadelphia property | Rest of Mississippi property | Philadelphia violent | Rest of Mississippi violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 30.1 | 24.5 | 3.4 | 2.5 |
| 2024 | 24.9 | 22.0 | 5.2 | 2.5 |
| 2025 | 28.8 | 19.1 | 4.5 | 3.0 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2023–2025, against the rest of Mississippi.
230 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.
31 violent and 199 property, as reported to the FBI by Philadelphia’s police.
Four people died in crashes on Philadelphia’s roads in 2019–2023
Philadelphia had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which four people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is about what is typical for Mississippi towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (11.6 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Philadelphia’s size would see about 4 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Philadelphia’s own rate (11.4) 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.
Philadelphia and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia | D | 4.4 | 27.9 |
| Pearl River | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Pearl River is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
Mississippi towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia | D | 4.4 | 27.9 |
| Pass Christian | B+ | 0.1 | 12.9 |
| Kosciusko | C+ | 1.5 | 16.1 |
| Waveland | C+ | 0.5 | 20.7 |
| Amory | D | 5.1 | 22.7 |
| Batesville | D | 3.2 | 37.7 |
The five graded Mississippi towns closest to Philadelphia’s population (6,858), 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 Philadelphia. 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 Philadelphia’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (6,901 in 2025); our figure for Philadelphia is 6,858 (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 Philadelphia
Is Philadelphia, MS safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Philadelphia reports more crime per resident than 88% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #33 of 45 in Mississippi. Its police reported 4.4 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 Philadelphia?
4.4 violent and 27.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Mississippi reports 2.7 and 21.6; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Philadelphia?
Philadelphia’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Philadelphia”. 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.