Beebe, AR has a F safety grade (15/100) with a violent crime rate of 709 per 100,000, 102% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Beebe is a small municipal reporter (9,022 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with AR and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Beebe, AR carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 102% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Beebe, AR shows violent crime at 709.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,673.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 102% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 362.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 709.4 in 2024 (+95.5%). The highest observed value was 709.4 in 2024 and the lowest 241.0 in 2021. 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 Beebe's 709.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hope (710.5), Jonesboro (719.9), Clarendon (693.5), Ozark (665.7). 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 709.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Beebe ranks 33 of 204 — above 171 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +131.7% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 29.8% of the 215 Part I offenses reported in Beebe for 2024, against a median of 21.0% across comparable Arkansas cities — a gap of 8.7 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 84.8% of reported property offenses in Beebe, against a cohort median of 74.4%. The remainder is burglary (18) and motor vehicle theft (5). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Beebe'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.
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 10.1 Census sq mi, Beebe logged 14.9 property and 6.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Beebe's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 215 offenses; mix index 4,111).
Violent offenses are 30% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Beebe offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.1 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 | 151 | 1673.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 128 | 1418.8 |
| Burglary | 18 | 199.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5 | 55.4 |
| Arson | 2 | 22.2 |
| Violent Crime | 64 | 709.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 45 | 498.8 |
| Rape | 15 | 166.3 |
| Robbery | 4 | 44.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,268 | 362.8 | 2358.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,299 | 241 | 2024.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,683 | 598.9 | 2464.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,865 | 564 | 2256.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,022 | 709.4 | 1673.7 |
Beebe Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Beebe's 215 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 Beebe in population. Their populations run from 8,115 to 9,721, against 9,022 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Beebe sits at 709.4/100K violent (grade F); the Arkansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Beebe reported 64 violent crimes and 151 property crimes, for a total of 215 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Beebe's violent crime rate increased by 25.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 25.8%.
The most common crime type in Beebe is larceny-theft, accounting for 59.5% of all reported crimes (128 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Beebe 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 Beebe's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Beebe, AR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Beebe is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (9,022 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.