Citizens Southwest, Jackson, MS Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Citizens Southwest is a neighborhood of 14,000 residents in Jackson, about 4 miles southwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Citizens Southwest?
Citizens Southwest grades F for violent crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 96% of Americans live. Assaults make up 85% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Jackson as a whole grades D- for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000More violent crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
4% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Citizens Southwest as a whole, and 96% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Citizens Southwest scores 0.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in Citizens Southwest, Jackson, MS at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Citizens Southwest in Jackson, 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 about violent crime in Citizens Southwest
Robberies run high. Citizens Southwest has robberies at more than double the US rate: 1.5 a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
How Citizens Southwest compares within Jackson
Violent crime varies widely across Citizens Southwest: 29% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 70% in areas graded D or F. Violent crime grades across Citizens Southwest run from B+ to F.
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A or B 29%C 1%D or F 70%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Citizens Southwest has less violent crime than 1 of the 6 neighborhoods in Jackson. It covers much of the Citizens Southwest and West Central Jackson areas.
Violent crime rates and types in Citizens Southwest
CrimeGrade™ estimates Citizens Southwest has about 16 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 16% more than the US as a whole and close to Jackson as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Citizens Southwest, about 85% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Violent crime in Citizens Southwest and nearby neighborhoods
Citizens Southwest has more violent crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Brownsfield-Central and Baker-Zachary Area have the least violent crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Citizens Southwest. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Citizens Southwest has more violent crime than 90% of them.
Tree cover, density and walkability in Citizens Southwest
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Citizens Southwest apart: it has tree cover over 56% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally, and 4% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report less robbery, yet robbery runs higher here than that would suggest.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.56% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 99% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.4% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 96% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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 assault. 93% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D- (10 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 93% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Citizens Southwest: D (13 of 100).2 trips an hourUS: noneLower than for 83% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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 violent crime costs Citizens Southwest
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Citizens Southwest about $73 million a year, or $5,256 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $12 million, or $869 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Citizens Southwest is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
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.
