Crime in Arkansas (2024)
Arkansas agencies reported 76,939 offenses to the FBI in 2024: 17,625 violent crimes, 58,982 property crimes and 332 arsons, across 323 reporting agencies.
Per 100,000 residents
Against a 2024 population of 3,096,080 (Census estimates). A floor: Arkansas agencies that did not report contribute nothing.
Offenses by category
| Offense | Offenses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Murder & nonnegligent manslaughter | 222 | 0.3% |
| Rape | 2,117 | 2.8% |
| Robbery | 1,189 | 1.5% |
| Aggravated assault | 14,097 | 18.3% |
| Burglary | 10,833 | 14.1% |
| Larceny-theft | 42,756 | 55.6% |
| Motor vehicle theft | 5,393 | 7.0% |
| Arson | 332 | 0.4% |
By county
Counties with sufficient reporting coverage (73 of Arkansas's counties).
- Arkansas County
- Ashley County
- Baxter County
- Benton County
- Boone County
- Bradley County
- Calhoun County
- Carroll County
- Chicot County
- Clark County
- Clay County
- Cleburne County
- Cleveland County
- Columbia County
- Conway County
- Craighead County
- Crawford County
- Crittenden County
- Cross County
- Dallas County
- Desha County
- Drew County
- Faulkner County
- Franklin County
- Fulton County
- Garland County
- Grant County
- Greene County
- Hempstead County
- Howard County
- Independence County
- Izard County
- Jackson County
- Jefferson County
- Johnson County
- Lafayette County
- Lawrence County
- Lee County
- Lincoln County
- Little River County
- Logan County
- Lonoke County
- Madison County
- Marion County
- Miller County
- Mississippi County
- Monroe County
- Montgomery County
- Newton County
- Ouachita County
- Perry County
- Phillips County
- Pike County
- Poinsett County
- Polk County
- Pope County
- Prairie County
- Pulaski County
- Randolph County
- Saline County
- Scott County
- Searcy County
- Sebastian County
- Sevier County
- Sharp County
- St. Francis County
- Stone County
- Union County
- Van Buren County
- Washington County
- White County
- Woodruff County
- Yell County
Largest reporting agencies
| Agency | Violent | Property | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Rock Police Department | 3,415 | 10,650 | 14,126 |
| Fort Smith Police Department | 758 | 3,315 | 4,083 |
| North Little Rock Police Department | 761 | 2,781 | 3,553 |
| Jonesboro Police Department | 585 | 2,474 | 3,065 |
| Fayetteville Police Department | 441 | 2,468 | 2,911 |
| Pine Bluff Police Department | 609 | 1,752 | 2,370 |
| Springdale Police Department | 450 | 1,760 | 2,212 |
| Conway Police Department | 374 | 1,462 | 1,839 |
| Hot Springs Police Department | 203 | 1,582 | 1,795 |
| Pulaski County Sheriff's Office | 448 | 1,166 | 1,628 |
| West Memphis Police Department | 454 | 1,100 | 1,558 |
| Jacksonville Police Department | 275 | 1,147 | 1,429 |
| Texarkana Police Department | 240 | 1,043 | 1,284 |
| Garland County Sheriff's Office | 322 | 919 | 1,241 |
| Rogers Police Department | 257 | 960 | 1,222 |
How to read these numbers
Counts are offenses reported by law-enforcement agencies to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program for 2024(Return A master file, which incorporates the FBI's own NIBRS-to-SRS conversion for agencies that report incident-based data). Nothing here is estimated: an agency that did not report contributes nothing, so totals are floors, not universes.
County figures use headquarters-county assignment: an agency's offenses count in the county where it is headquartered. Sheriff and state-police activity can span county lines; a county's figure is best read as "offenses reported by agencies based here." Counties where reporting agencies cover less than half of the policed population get no page; between 50% and 80% the page carries a visible partial-coverage notice.
Rates per 100,000 residentsuse Census Population Estimates (PEP) for the same year as the crime data. They appear only where the population served by agencies headquartered in a county is within 10% of the population that lives there. Where a police force covers several counties — the NYPD polices five boroughs from its Manhattan headquarters — the two geographies disagree, and a rate would be wrong by several times over in both directions. Those counties show counts without a rate rather than a number that looks authoritative and isn't.
Because non-reporting agencies contribute nothing, every rate here is a floor: the true rate is at least this high. Rates are most comparable between places with similar reporting coverage, which each page states.
Violent crime = murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault. Property crime = burglary + larceny-theft + motor vehicle theft. Arson is tracked separately (from the FBI's de-duplicated SRS/NIBRS arson data) and is excluded from the property composite, following FBI practice. Aggravated assault excludes simple assault.
These figures will not match the FBI's published national estimates(which impute for non-reporting agencies) or the 12-month quarterly trend windows elsewhere on this site — different universes, both documented.