Bentonville, AR has a B safety grade (67/100) with a violent crime rate of 255 per 100,000, 27% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Bentonville, AR Crime Rate & Safety
At 61,109 residents, Bentonville is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against AR and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Bentonville, AR carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 27% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bentonville, AR shows violent crime at 255.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 828 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 27% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
255.3/100K violent
828/100K property
-27% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Bentonville, AR
Comparable rate records
Bentonville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Arkansas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bentonville's 255.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Damascus (254.5), Lakeview (253.5), Shannon Hills (253.0), Lowell (257.6). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 331.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 255.3 in 2024 (-23.0%). The highest observed value was 331.7 in 2020 and the lowest 245.5 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Bentonville sits mid-pack among comparable Arkansas cities
At 255.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bentonville ranks 124 of 204 — above 80 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -17.1% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 83.2% of reported property offenses in Bentonville, against a cohort median of 74.4%. The remainder is burglary (54) and motor vehicle theft (31). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Bentonville'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Bentonville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 35.5 Census sq mi, Bentonville logged 14.3 property and 4.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bentonville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 662 offenses; mix index 4,519).
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (35.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-24.1%
1091.4 → 828/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+4%
245.5 → 255.3/100K
Property offenses lead Bentonville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs AR
Property Crime
506
828
1939.5
Larceny-Theft
421
688.9
-
Burglary
54
88.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
31
50.7
-
Arson
3
4.9
-
Violent Crime
156
255.3
580.1
Aggravated Assault
128
209.5
-
Rape
23
37.6
-
Murder
3
4.9
-
Robbery
2
3.3
-
Bentonville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Bentonville 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
Bentonville Police Department
Reporting agency for Bentonville NIBRS-participating
Bentonville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bentonville's 662 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 Bentonville in population. Their populations run from 33,223 to 81,256, against 61,109 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Bentonville reported 156 violent crimes and 506 property crimes, for a total of 662 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Bentonville?
From 2023 to 2024, Bentonville's violent crime rate increased by 4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 24.1%.
What is the most common crime in Bentonville?
The most common crime type in Bentonville is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.6% of all reported crimes (421 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Bentonville's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bentonville, AR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.