The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Greenville, MS
Greenville is a city of 30,000 in Washington County · Updated November 2026
Is Greenville, MS safe?
Greenville has more crime than most of the country: an overall CrimeGrade™ of C-, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 87% of Americans live. Property crime grades better than violent crime here, A- against D-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Greenville run from A+ to F, so check the map below.
C-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 356 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
13% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Greenville as a whole, and 87% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Greenville scores 356.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Greenville, MS at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Greenville, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Greenville
Murder stands out among C-graded cities. For the typical resident of a C-graded US city, the figure is 0.06 murders a year per 1,000 residents; Greenville has 0.66.
Aggravated assault is a strength. Greenville grades D- for violent crime, but aggravated assault grades A, better than in the neighborhoods where 55% of Americans live.
The safest and least safe parts of Greenville
Crime varies widely across Greenville: 31% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 58% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Greenville run from A+ to F; 12% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 31%C 11%D or F 58%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Greenville, the northwest side has the least crime and the center the most.
Crime rates and types in Greenville
CrimeGrade™ estimates Greenville has about 56 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 52% more than the US as a whole and 80% more than Mississippi.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Assault is the most common crime in Greenville, about 34% of everything reported.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
The Greenville Police Department sent the FBI no usable 2024 counts of reported rape, robbery, burglary, theft and vehicle theft, so CrimeGrade™ built the figures from the department's own reports for recent years, brought up to 2024. The department sent the FBI no 2024 counts of murder and simple assault and no recent year to build on, so CrimeGrade™ made its own estimates. The department reports to the FBI in a format that leaves out vandalism, so CrimeGrade™ makes its own vandalism estimate.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
How Greenville compares with nearby cities
Greenville has the most crime of its 2 nearest cities.
Empty homes, transit and walkability in Greenville
Two things set Greenville apart: it has 18.6% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 2.8 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places like that tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson, and burglary runs high here.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.18.6% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 99% of US city residents
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Greenville: F (0 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% of US city residents
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 76% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (19 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 54% of US city residents
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.14.2 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 84% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.2.8 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 80% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.4% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 77% of US city residents
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Greenville
Crime costs Greenville about $4,004 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, about triple the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $287 million a year, or $9,536 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$37 million
$1,233
Rape
$870,000
$29
Robbery
$630,000
$21
Assault
$5.3 million
$175
Burglary
$2.8 million
$93
Theft
$2.6 million
$87
Vehicle theft
$1.2 million
$39
Arson
$190,000
$6
Vandalism
$1.1 million
$38
Total
$52 million
$1,722
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Greenville means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Greenville, MS average a SchoolGrade of D-: 40% of students test proficient, against 21% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Greenville on SchoolGrade
