Arkansas City, KS carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 14% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Arkansas City, KS shows violent crime at 401.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,170.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 14% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
401.7/100K violent
2170.9/100K property
+14% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Arkansas City, KS
Comparable rate records
Arkansas City's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Kansas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Arkansas City's 401.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bonner Springs (406.2), Larned (384.2), Cherryvale (426.5), Emporia (369.2). 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
Arkansas City reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Kansas cities
At 401.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Arkansas City ranks 25 of 125 — above 100 of the 124 other Kansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +111.7% against the cohort median of 189.7. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 466.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 401.7 in 2024 (-13.8%). The highest observed value was 647.0 in 2023 and the lowest 401.7 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Arkansas City'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Arkansas City's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 9.3 Census sq mi, Arkansas City logged 27.3 property and 5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Arkansas City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 301 offenses; mix index 4,470).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-37.9%
647 → 401.7/100K
Property Crime Rate
-26.8%
2965.9 → 2170.9/100K
Property offenses lead Arkansas City's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
254
2170.9
1711
Larceny-Theft
191
1632.5
-
Burglary
47
401.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
16
136.8
-
Arson
1
8.5
-
Violent Crime
47
401.7
352
Aggravated Assault
39
333.3
-
Rape
5
42.7
-
Robbery
3
25.6
-
Murder
0
0
-
Arkansas City Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Arkansas City property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Arkansas City Police Department
Reporting agency for Arkansas City NIBRS-participating
Arkansas City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Arkansas City's 301 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Kansas
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Kansas cities closest to Arkansas City in population. Their populations run from 10,283 to 12,941, against 11,700 here. Or use our
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Arkansas City at 401.7/100K violent and 2,170.9/100K property - matched below outside Kansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Arkansas City reported 47 violent crimes and 254 property crimes, for a total of 301 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Arkansas City?
From 2023 to 2024, Arkansas City's violent crime rate decreased by 37.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 26.8%.
What is the most common crime in Arkansas City?
The most common crime type in Arkansas City is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.5% of all reported crimes (191 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Arkansas City figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Arkansas City, KS rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.