Alexander, AR has a F safety grade (23/100) with a violent crime rate of 571 per 100,000, 62% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Alexander is a small municipal reporter (3,854 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with AR and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Alexander, AR carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 62% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Alexander, AR shows violent crime at 570.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,257.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 62% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Alexander reported 22 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,854. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1163.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 570.8 in 2024 (-50.9%). The highest observed value was 1163.5 in 2020 and the lowest 368.8 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Alexander's 570.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Kibler (574.7), Green Forest (560.0), Leachville (582.0), Lincoln (588.7). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
At 570.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Alexander ranks 47 of 204 — above 157 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +86.4% against the cohort median of 306.2. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 52.9% of reported property offenses in Alexander, against a cohort median of 74.8%. The remainder is burglary (34) and motor vehicle theft (7). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Alexander's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 22 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,854. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 2.3 Census sq mi, Alexander logged 38.5 property and 9.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Alexander leans on larceny-theft at 42% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,981.
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Alexander offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 87 | 2257.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 46 | 1193.6 |
| Burglary | 34 | 882.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 181.6 |
| Arson | 1 | 25.9 |
| Violent Crime | 22 | 570.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 13 | 337.3 |
| Rape | 7 | 181.6 |
| Murder | 1 | 25.9 |
| Robbery | 1 | 25.9 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 3,524 | 1163.5 | 2837.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 3,701 | 837.6 | 2377.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 3,798 | 816.2 | 2027.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 3,796 | 368.8 | 1765 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,854 | 570.8 | 2257.4 |
Alexander Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Alexander's 109 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Arkansas cities closest to Alexander in population. Their populations run from 3,605 to 4,136, against 3,854 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Alexander sits at 570.8/100K violent (grade F); the Arkansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Alexander reported 22 violent crimes and 87 property crimes, for a total of 109 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Alexander's violent crime rate increased by 54.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 27.9%.
The most common crime type in Alexander is larceny-theft, accounting for 42.2% of all reported crimes (46 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Alexander is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Alexander's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Alexander, AR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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