What is the crime rate in Wiggins, MS?

In 2025, the Wiggins Police Department reported 12 violent crimes and 86 property crimes to the FBI.

That is 274 violent and 1,967 property crimes per 100,000 of the 4,372 residents it serves.

Across Mississippi the rates were 220 and 1,315.

Nationally they were 330 and 1,552.

Figures last updated on November 12, 2026.

Violent per 100,000: 274
Property per 100,000: 1,967
Violent crimes: 12
Property crimes: 86

Crime reported by the Wiggins Police Department, 2023 to 2025

Offenses known to law enforcement, reported to the FBI; rates per 100,000 residents of the area the department serves
Year	Violent crimes	Violent per 100,000	Property crimes	Property per 100,000	Residents served
2023	9	211	135	3,164	4,267
2024	13	305	134	3,148	4,257
2025	12	274	86	1,967	4,372

Violent crimes reported went from 9 in 2023 to 12 in 2025.

Property crimes reported went from 135 in 2023 to 86 in 2025.

In a small town a handful of incidents moves these numbers a long way, so one year’s change says little on its own.

Wiggins against Mississippi and the nation

Crimes per 100,000 residents, 2025
	Violent crime	Property crime
Wiggins	274	1,967
Stone County	205	1,126
Mississippi	220	1,315
United States	330	1,552

These are rates per resident; they are not adjusted for visitors, commuters or the size of the area, which raise or lower a town’s figures without changing anybody’s risk.

Crime reported in places near Wiggins, 2025

Each place’s own police department; rates per 100,000 residents served
Place	Distance	Violent per 100,000	Property per 100,000
Wiggins	—	274	1,967
Lumberton	22 mi	242	1,877
Poplarville	23 mi	69	2,227
Purvis	26 mi	51	970
Gulfport	30 mi	444	3,554
D'Iberville	32 mi	66	4,405
Biloxi	32 mi	351	2,791
Lucedale	33 mi	481	3,655
Hattiesburg	33 mi	258	3,590

Neighboring departments count the same offenses the same way, but their areas, populations and visitors differ, so a difference between two towns is a starting point for a question, not an answer.

How to read these numbers

These are offenses known to the police and reported to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program: crimes nobody reported, or that a department did not record, are not in them.

Violent crime is murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault; property crime is burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson.

A department reports the crimes in the area it polices, which can differ from the town’s boundaries, and the FBI estimates the population it serves.

The FBI asks that these figures not be used to rank places or to judge how safe a neighborhood is: crime depends on many local factors, and the counts describe a whole town, not any street or home.

A year is shown only when the department reported all twelve months.

FBI: Uniform Crime Reporting statistics and their proper use

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