Mississippi MS · United States

Violent crime rate

31.9% below the national rate of 329.3 per 100,000

224.2 per 100,000 2025

Covers the 81.5% of the population whose agencies reported.

Offenses reported to police per 100,000 residents of the population the reporting agencies covered — not the state’s population, and a different share in each state. It is not a count of crime that happened.

The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer · Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division

Imprisonment rate

81.1% above the national rate of 360 per 100,000

652 per 100,000 2023

People held under the state’s own correctional authority per 100,000 residents, from a different publisher counting a different thing. Never added to the rate above.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics · U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics

Federal spending per resident

Higher than 22 of the 51 jurisdictions with a figure

$13,055 FY2025

Federal money obligated against a place of performance in the state, divided by its population. A place of performance is where an award record says most of its work will be done: in USAspending’s words, “the address where the predominant performance of the award will be accomplished.” It is reported, not verified, and it is not a record of where the money was spent.

USAspending · U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service

Registered nonprofits

12,866 of them registered as charities

15,898 2026

Organizations the IRS lists in its Exempt Organizations Business Master File with an address in the state. Registration is not activity — the file records status, not whether an organization still operates — and churches and the smallest organizations are not required to register at all, so this undercounts by an unknown amount.

The IRS · Internal Revenue Service

Industry payments to health providers

14,436 doctors, across 1,051,089 separate payments

$83.8 million 2019–2025

What drug and device manufacturers reported paying doctors and practitioners with a practice address in the state, added up across seven program years rather than taken in one. General payments only — research funding and ownership interests are separate transactions and are not in it — and a total rather than an average, because the denominator an average needs is how many doctors practice in the state, which neither CMS source publishes.

CMS Open Payments · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Farm payments paid out

20,834 recipients, across 63,267 payments

$364.7 million 2025

What the Farm Service Agency disbursed through the county offices in the state, in one calendar year. It is what those offices administered rather than what the state’s farms received — a recipient addressed in another state is counted where they were paid — and it is one agency: crop insurance is the Risk Management Agency’s and is not in it.

The Farm Service Agency · U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency

PPP loans approved

138,389 loans, 125,717 of them carrying a forgiveness amount

$5.4 billion 2020–2021

Paycheck Protection Program loans SBA guaranteed to businesses operating in the state, as each loan now stands. It counts loans, not businesses — a business with a first and a second draw is two — and it is loans, not grants: what was forgiven or charged off is on the state page, as of the date of SBA’s file.

The SBA · U.S. Small Business Administration

School spending per pupil

29.2% below the national $17,452 per pupil

$12,352 FY2024

Current spending by the state’s public school districts over their fall membership, summed over every district, as NCES divides, for its newest fiscal year. It leaves out buildings, equipment and debt, it is in that year’s dollars, and a district that pays another to teach its pupils counts the tuition as its own spending.

NCES · National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education

Bank offices per 100,000 residents

and 6.9 credit-union sites per 100,000 residents

33.6 June 2026

Full-service offices of FDIC-insured banks in the state, counted where each office is, over the Census Bureau’s estimate of the state’s population. A bank headquartered elsewhere counts its offices here; drive-throughs, loan production offices and other limited-service sites are not counted. Credit unions are the NCUA’s and are never added in.

The FDIC · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

HUD-subsidized housing per 1,000 residents

and 15.3 tax-credit homes per 1,000 residents

19.3 2025

Homes under HUD’s rental assistance programs in the state at December 31, each home once: public housing, vouchers, project-based Section 8 and HUD’s smaller programs, over the Census Bureau’s estimate of the state’s population. It is not every low-rent home: tax-credit housing is counted apart and never added in, and a household waiting for help is not counted.

HUD · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research

Mortgage loans originated per 1,000 residents

from 103,502 mortgage applications

18.5 2025

Loans lenders reported as originated in the state in the newest year, from the CFPB’s Home Mortgage Disclosure Act files, over the Census Bureau’s estimate of the state’s population. It counts loans, not households, and a loan a lender bought from another is left out; applications that were denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted.

The CFPB · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

College sports revenue

across 31 colleges and 8,075 athletes

$487.4 million 2024–25

Athletics revenue the state’s colleges reported to the Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey for the newest survey year, which runs from September to August. It includes state support, student fees and what a college gives its own athletics, so it is not profit; it is in that year’s dollars, and each college counts under the state its newest row gives.

The Education Department’s athletics disclosures · Office of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education

Federal civilian employees

Higher than 15 of the 51 jurisdictions with a figure

9,311 August 2026

Federal civilian employees in OPM’s file whose duty station is in the state, in the newest month OPM has not flagged as incomplete. OPM withholds the duty station of the Department of Defense, of ten security and sensitive agencies outside the Washington area and of twenty-six sensitive occupational series, so this counts the half of the workforce whose station is published, and a state with many Defense employees is undercounted most.

OPM · U.S. Office of Personnel Management