MS
East Central Community College
1.80 incidents / 1,000 students
Decatur, MS · Clery Act 2024 · Public
East Central Community College
Across 2022–2024, East Central Community College reported 5 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count rose over that span (largest filed category: Burglary). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: Meridian Community College.
- 1.80
- Incidents / 1k students
- #969
- Rank of 2,072
- #21
- MS rank
- 2,785
- Enrolled students
1.80 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
East Central Community College reports 1.80 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 22% below Richard Bland College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Richard Bland College (1.79/1k); Meridian Community College (2.88/1k); Russell Sage College (3.23/1k); Nash Community College (0.00/1k); Salve Regina University (3.58/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Meridian Community College (2.88/1k); Copiah-Lincoln Community College (0.00/1k); Northeast Mississippi Community College (0.87/1k); Mississippi Delta Community College (0.51/1k); Southwest Mississippi Community College (0.00/1k); East Mississippi Community College (0.00/1k); Coahoma Community College (3.06/1k); Jones County Junior College (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Burglary.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 1.80
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #969
- safer than ranked campuses its size
- 53%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 5
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 175643 · East Central Community College 1.80/1k score rate · #969/2,072
RATE-LOW · RANK-MID · ST-MID · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO
- RATE-LOW 1.80/1k
- RANK-MID #969/2,072
- ST-MID #21 in state
- PEER-FINISH Richard Bland College · ±0.00
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-UP ↑ trend
- CAT-LEAD Burglary
- ENR-SMALL 2,785
- FIRE-ZERO 0 fires filed
Nearest enrollment peer: Richard Bland College (-0.00/1k)
East Central Community College sheet RATE-LOW · RANK-MID · ST-MID · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO · peer Richard Bland College. Codes from this campus OPE filing: score-category rate, national/state rank, named enrollment peer, zero posture, Criminal Offenses trend, lead category, enrollment band, fire filing. Not a moving recommendation.
Clery plate RATE-LOW · RANK-MID · ST-MID · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Richard Bland College (-0.00/1k). National rank #969 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
East Central Community College reports 1.80 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 22% below Richard Bland College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: Richard Bland College (1.79/1k); Meridian Community College (2.88/1k); Russell Sage College (3.23/1k); Nash Community College (0.00/1k); Salve Regina University (3.58/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Meridian Community College (2.88/1k); Copiah-Lincoln Community College (0.00/1k); Northeast Mississippi Community College (0.87/1k); Mississippi Delta Community College (0.51/1k); Southwest Mississippi Community College (0.00/1k); East Mississippi Community College (0.00/1k); Coahoma Community College (3.06/1k); Jones County Junior College (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Burglary.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around East Central Community
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest East on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Nash Community College · lowest peer 0
Nash Community College — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Richard Bland College · near
Richard Bland College — near
1.79 per 1,000 students
- East Central Community College · this campus
East Central Community College — this campus
1.8 per 1,000 students
- Meridian Community College · near
Meridian Community College — near
2.88 per 1,000 students
- Russell Sage College · near
Russell Sage College — near
3.23 per 1,000 students
- Salve Regina University · highest peer
Salve Regina University — highest peer
3.58 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around East Central Community College's 1.80/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
East Central Community College increased from 0 to 5 reported on-campus incidents between the 2023 and 2024 reporting years in the U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey.
This is a change in reported incidents, not a measure of individual safety. Enrollment, reporting practice, and category coverage can affect the count.
See national reporting-year changesSignature insight · size does not equal danger
Campus size vs reported safety rate
Among 16 MS 2-year peers in this comparison, East Central Community College is larger than 33% and safer-reporting than 20% - the smaller, higher-reporting quadrant. Axes are within-sample percentiles so outliers share the same frame; a higher safety percentile means a lower Clery incidents-per-1,000 rate.
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- Point 1: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 27, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 13
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 40, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 73
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 20, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 13, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 73
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 73
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 7, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 7
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 60, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 73
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 60
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 73, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 40
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 80, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 73
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 87, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 93, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 27
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- East Central Community Col…: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 20
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concorde Career College-Southaven | 115 | 8.70 | 0 | 0 |
| Coahoma Community College | 1,633 | 3.06 | 7 | 7 |
| Southwest Mississippi Community College | 1,758 | 0.00 | 13 | 73 |
| Mississippi Delta Community College | 1,978 | 0.51 | 20 | 53 |
| Meridian Community College | 2,780 | 2.88 | 27 | 13 |
| East Central Community College (this campus) | 2,785 | 1.80 | 33 | 20 |
| Copiah-Lincoln Community College | 2,932 | 0.00 | 40 | 73 |
| Northeast Mississippi Community College | 3,442 | 0.87 | 47 | 33 |
| East Mississippi Community College | 3,841 | 0.00 | 53 | 73 |
| Jones County Junior College | 4,753 | 0.00 | 60 | 73 |
| Holmes Community College | 5,039 | 0.40 | 67 | 60 |
| Itawamba Community College | 5,139 | 0.78 | 73 | 40 |
Sample of 12 campuses from the plot (sorted by enrollment). Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey + IPEDS enrollment. Rate = on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 students; lower is safer-reporting, not a personal-risk forecast.
What changed between 2023 and 2024
Reported on-campus incidents at East Central Community College rose from 0 to 5. The increase shows up in Burglary (0 to 5).
This describes reported incidents, not crime. Clery counts move with reporting policy, awareness campaigns and how a campus staffs its security authorities, so a rise can reflect better capture of reports and a fall can reflect worse capture. One year of movement at a single campus is not a trend.
What actually gets reported at East Central Community College
Across 3 reporting years, the only Clery Act category with a recorded on-campus incident here is Burglary.
The remaining 10 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Aggravated Assault, Arson, Fondling and Incest. Under the Clery Act that zero is an affirmative report that nothing in the category occurred, not an absence of data, which is why the table below lists those rows rather than dropping them.
Counts describe incidents reported under the Clery Act for the on-campus geography. Reporting practice varies between institutions, so counts are not a direct measure of relative safety.
Crime Statistics by Year
11 categories 3 reporting years on-campus onlyEast Central Community College: Criminal Offenses by year
Rising
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fondling | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Incest | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Statutory Rape | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: US Dept of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey. Table figures show the Criminal Offenses section; other Clery tables are separate
Fire Safety
| Year | Fires | Inj. | Deaths | Cat I | Cat II |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Arrests & Disciplinary Actions
9 category-year records| Category | Year | Arrests | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 6 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 1 | 1 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 6 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
East Central Community College vs peer institutions
Side-by-side safety scores for 3 peers of similar enrollment
Scores are $2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students (lower is fewer in those categories).
VA
Richard Bland College
1.79 incidents / 1,000 students
MS
Meridian Community College
2.88 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where East Central Community College sits on price and outcomes
At $5,240, East Central Community College's reported average net price is cheaper than 14% among 49 Mississippi colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $13,265.
- $5,240
- average net price
- $13,265
- Mississippi median
- 5.2×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $7,837
- reported income-bracket spread
Aid here is steeply income-scaled. Families reporting under $30,000 of income record a net price of $4,575, while those above $110,000 record $12,412 - roughly 2.7 times as much. A published average of $5,240 therefore describes very few families well; the bracket nearest your own income is the more useful figure.
Six years after enrolling, the median former student who received federal aid reports $28,873 - about 5.5 times one year of the reported net price here. On that ratio the cost is recovered quickly. Only 38% complete within six years. Most students here do not finish, which is the single most important number on this page for anyone weighing the cost.
Average net price reflects grant and scholarship aid for aided students, not a personal offer. Earnings cover former students who received federal aid; neither measure predicts an individual's outcome.
Academic & Financial Profile
Tuition & Costs
- In-State Tuition
- $4,160
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $6,260
- Avg Net Price
- $5,240
- Median Debt
- $5,500
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 39%
Outcomes
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $28,873
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $32,421
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 42%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,271 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Richard Bland College
South Prince George, VA · 2,788 enrolled
Safety Score 1.79
Meridian Community College
Meridian, MS · 2,780 enrolled
Safety Score 2.88
Russell Sage College
Troy, NY · 2,790 enrolled
Safety Score 3.23
Nash Community College
Rocky Mount, NC · 2,780 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Salve Regina University
Newport, RI · 2,791 enrolled
Safety Score 3.58
Closest by National Rank
East Central Community College (national rank #969) sits near The University of Findlay (#968) and Chamberlain University-Virginia (#970) on the scored national list, nearest by rank, not by size or state.
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for East Central Community College, both outside MS so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Richard Bland College
South Prince George, VA · 2,788 enrolled
Safety score 1.79
Nash Community College
Rocky Mount, NC · 2,780 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Surry Community College
Dobson, NC · 2,796 enrolled
Safety score 0.72
Windward Community College
Kaneohe, HI · 2,765 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Allegany College of Maryland
Cumberland, MD · 2,762 enrolled
Safety score 3.26
Blackhawk Technical College
Janesville, WI · 2,811 enrolled
Safety score 0.36
Randolph Community College
Asheboro, NC · 2,814 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Nunez Community College
Chalmette, LA · 2,819 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Flathead Valley Community College
Kalispell, MT · 2,234 enrolled
Safety score 1.79
Northeastern Junior College
Sterling, CO · 1,684 enrolled
Safety score 1.78
Monterey Peninsula College
Monterey, CA · 7,173 enrolled
Safety score 1.81
San Diego City College
San Diego, CA · 13,242 enrolled
Safety score 1.81
Southern Technical College
Fort Myers, FL · 550 enrolled
Safety score 1.82
Casper College
Casper, WY · 3,403 enrolled
Safety score 1.76
Carrington College-Phoenix North
Phoenix, AZ · 1,080 enrolled
Safety score 1.85
Frequently Asked Questions
Is East Central Community College safe?
East Central Community College has a safety score of 1.80 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #969 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: Richard Bland College (1.79/1k). Same-state same-level set: Meridian Community College (2.88/1k); Copiah-Lincoln Community College (0.00/1k); Northeast Mississippi Community College (0.87/1k); Mississippi Delta Community College (0.51/1k); Southwest Mississippi Community College (0.00/1k); East Mississippi Community College (0.00/1k); Coahoma Community College (3.06/1k); Jones County Junior College (0.00/1k).
What crimes are reported at East Central Community College?
For calendar year 2024, East Central Community College reported Burglary (5) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does East Central Community College compare to similar schools?
East Central Community College reports 22% fewer 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than Richard Bland College. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: Richard Bland College (1.79/1k); Meridian Community College (2.88/1k); Russell Sage College (3.23/1k); Nash Community College (0.00/1k); Salve Regina University (3.58/1k). Same-state same-level set: Meridian Community College (2.88/1k); Copiah-Lincoln Community College (0.00/1k); Northeast Mississippi Community College (0.87/1k); Mississippi Delta Community College (0.51/1k); Southwest Mississippi Community College (0.00/1k); East Mississippi Community College (0.00/1k); Coahoma Community College (3.06/1k); Jones County Junior College (0.00/1k).
Does East Central Community College have fire safety data?
Yes. East Central Community College reports fire safety data for on-campus residential facilities, including total fires, injuries, deaths, and fire damage categories. No fires were reported in the most recent year.
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