Blytheville, AR has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1360 per 100,000, 286% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Blytheville (12,354 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then AR and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Blytheville, AR carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 286% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Blytheville, AR shows violent crime at 1,359.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,419.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 286% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 1359.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Blytheville ranks 7 of 204 — above 197 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +344.1% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Blytheville's 1359.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are El Dorado (1319.0), Stuttgart (1308.6), Brinkley (1498.4), Trumann (1180.9). 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1148.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1359.9 in 2024 (+18.4%). The highest observed value was 1359.9 in 2024 and the lowest 709.7 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 61.0% of reported property offenses in Blytheville, against a cohort median of 74.8%. The remainder is burglary (163) and motor vehicle theft (50). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Blytheville'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.
Across 20.7 Census sq mi, Blytheville logged 26.3 property and 8.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Blytheville leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,115.
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Blytheville offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (20.7 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 | 546 | 4419.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 333 | 2695.5 |
| Burglary | 163 | 1319.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 50 | 404.7 |
| Arson | 6 | 48.6 |
| Violent Crime | 168 | 1359.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 135 | 1092.8 |
| Robbery | 23 | 186.2 |
| Murder | 5 | 40.5 |
| Rape | 5 | 40.5 |
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 | 13,239 | 1148.1 | 5393.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 13,003 | 1192 | 4368.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 12,732 | 973.9 | 4280.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 12,400 | 709.7 | 3854.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,354 | 1359.9 | 4419.6 |
Blytheville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Blytheville's 714 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 Blytheville in population. Their populations run from 10,650 to 13,619, against 12,354 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Blytheville sits at 1,359.9/100K violent (grade F); the Arkansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Blytheville at 1,359.9/100K violent and 4,419.6/100K property - matched below outside Arkansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,359.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
4,419.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Blytheville reported 168 violent crimes and 546 property crimes, for a total of 714 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Blytheville's violent crime rate increased by 91.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 14.7%.
The most common crime type in Blytheville is larceny-theft, accounting for 46.6% of all reported crimes (333 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Blytheville 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Blytheville's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Blytheville, AR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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