The Crime Indices range from 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime). Our crime rates are based on FBI data.
Violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.
Property crime includes the offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. The object of the theft-type offenses is the taking of money or property, but there is no force or threat of force against the victims.
| Cities with the Least Crime Near University, Mississippi | Crime Index |
| Paris, MS | |
| Tula, MS | |
| Taylor, MS | 20.2 |
| University, MS | 22.8 |
| Oxford, MS | 25.8 |
| Abbeville, MS | 30.0 |