Bella Vista, AR carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 43% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bella Vista, AR shows violent crime at 202.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 489.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 43% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
A safety grade
202.3/100K violent
489.1/100K property
-43% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Bella Vista, AR
Comparable rate records
Bella Vista's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Arkansas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bella Vista's 202.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Danville (201.2), Cherokee Village (200.6), Cedarville (206.8), Lavaca (197.4). 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
Bella Vista sits mid-pack among comparable Arkansas cities
At 202.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bella Vista ranks 142 of 204 — above 62 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -34.3% against the cohort median of 308.1. 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 29.3% of the 229 Part I offenses reported in Bella Vista for 2024, against a median of 21.0% across comparable Arkansas cities — a gap of 8.2 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 dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 86.4% of reported property offenses in Bella Vista, against a cohort median of 74.4%. The remainder is burglary (16) and motor vehicle theft (6). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 192.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 202.3 in 2024 (+5.3%). The highest observed value was 229.9 in 2022 and the lowest 147.6 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Bella Vista'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.
Bella Vista's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 45.3 Census sq mi, Bella Vista logged 3.6 property and 1.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bella Vista's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 229 offenses; mix index 4,411).
Violent offenses are 29% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (45.3 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
+37.1%
147.6 → 202.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
+24.2%
393.7 → 489.1/100K
Property offenses lead Bella Vista's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs AR
vs US avg
Property Crime
162
489.1
1939.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
140
422.7
-
-
Burglary
16
48.3
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
6
18.1
-
-
Arson
2
6
-
-
Violent Crime
67
202.3
580.1
352
Aggravated Assault
56
169.1
-
-
Rape
10
30.2
-
-
Murder
1
3
-
-
Robbery
0
0
-
-
Bella Vista Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Bella Vista 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
Bella Vista Police Department
Reporting agency for Bella Vista NIBRS-participating
Bella Vista Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bella Vista's 229 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 Arkansas
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Arkansas cities closest to Bella Vista in population. Their populations run from 28,958 to 38,524, against 33,122 here. Or use our
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Bella Vista at 202.3/100K violent and 489.1/100K property - matched below outside Arkansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Bella Vista reported 67 violent crimes and 162 property crimes, for a total of 229 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Bella Vista?
From 2023 to 2024, Bella Vista's violent crime rate increased by 37.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 24.2%.
What is the most common crime in Bella Vista?
The most common crime type in Bella Vista is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.1% of all reported crimes (140 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Bella Vista 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 Bella Vista, AR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.