Richland sits close to the middle of U.S. towns for reported crime
Overall, Richland grades B for safety (#9 of 45 graded towns in Mississippi): close to the middle 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 Richland
Among Mississippi towns, higher
Mississippi’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Richland’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 80% of the 45 Mississippi towns we grade, against 59% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Richland has 9,871 jobs based in town for 7,630 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 Richland’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 lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Richland’s police reported 28 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.2 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.8 in the rest of Mississippi and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Richland | Rest of Mississippi | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.4 | 3.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.2 | 2.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.9 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
For every 1,000 residents, about 11 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.
Reported crime is steady
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Mississippi.
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| Year | Richland property | Rest of Mississippi property | Richland violent | Rest of Mississippi violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 13.9 | 25.2 | 1.4 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | 9.0 | 24.7 | 1.2 | 2.5 |
| 2024 | 10.3 | 22.2 | 0.5 | 2.6 |
| 2025 | 10.9 | 19.2 | 1.9 | 3.1 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
99 crimes reported in 2025
15 violent and 84 property, as reported to the FBI by Richland’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
Four people died in crashes on Richland’s roads in 2019–2023
Richland had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which four people died. Most of these deaths (2 of 4) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
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 Richland’s size would see about 4 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Richland’s own rate (10.9) 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.
Richland and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Pearl and Jackson reported to the FBI for 2025 but not 2023 or 2024. Florence reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2025 but not 2024.
Mississippi towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richland | B | 1.2 | 10.1 |
| New Albany | B | 0.8 | 13.2 |
| 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 Richland’s population (7,630), 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 Richland. 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 Richland’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (7,726 in 2025); our figure for Richland is 7,630 (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 Richland
Is Richland, MS safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Richland reports less crime per resident than 59% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #9 of 45 in Mississippi. Its police reported 1.2 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 Richland?
1.2 violent and 10.1 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.
Is crime going up or down in Richland?
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings.
Who polices Richland?
Richland’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Richland”. 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.