Brinkley, AR has a F safety grade (13/100) with a violent crime rate of 1498 per 100,000, 326% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Brinkley is a small municipal reporter (2,536 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with AR and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Brinkley, AR carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 326% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Brinkley, AR shows violent crime at 1,498.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,971.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 326% 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 750.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1498.4 in 2024 (+99.6%). The highest observed value was 1498.4 in 2024 and the lowest 573.4 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 1498.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Brinkley ranks 6 of 204 — above 198 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +389.4% 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 43.2% of the 88 Part I offenses reported in Brinkley for 2024, against a median of 21.0% across comparable Arkansas cities — a gap of 22.2 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Brinkley's 1498.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pine Bluff (1580.8), Helena-West Helena (1630.2), Blytheville (1359.9), Little Rock (1672.0). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 64.0% of reported property offenses in Brinkley, against a cohort median of 74.8%. The remainder is burglary (12) and motor vehicle theft (6). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Brinkley's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters 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 5.7 Census sq mi, Brinkley logged 8.8 property and 6.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Brinkley leans on larceny-theft at 36% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,833.
Violent offenses are 43% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Brinkley offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.7 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 | 50 | 1971.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 32 | 1261.8 |
| Burglary | 12 | 473.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 6 | 236.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 38 | 1498.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 31 | 1222.4 |
| Rape | 5 | 197.2 |
| Robbery | 2 | 78.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,531 | 750.7 | 3753.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,480 | 846.8 | 2903.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,616 | 573.4 | 1529.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,550 | 862.7 | 2862.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,536 | 1498.4 | 1971.6 |
Brinkley Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Brinkley's 88 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 Brinkley in population. Their populations run from 2,362 to 2,680, against 2,536 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Brinkley sits at 1,498.4/100K violent (grade F); the Arkansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Brinkley reported 38 violent crimes and 50 property crimes, for a total of 88 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Brinkley's violent crime rate increased by 73.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 31.1%.
The most common crime type in Brinkley is larceny-theft, accounting for 36.4% of all reported crimes (32 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Brinkley 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 Brinkley's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Brinkley, AR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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