Camden, AR has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1087 per 100,000, 209% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Camden (10,025 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
Camden, AR carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 209% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Camden, AR shows violent crime at 1,087.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,049.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 209% 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 1087.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Camden ranks 14 of 204 — above 190 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +255.1% 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 Camden's 1087.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Dumas (1151.0), Wynne (1022.9), Caddo Valley (1018.7), De Valls Bluff (1008.1). 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 1075.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1087.3 in 2024 (+1.1%). The highest observed value was 1381.1 in 2021 and the lowest 1066.2 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Camden'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 16.5 Census sq mi, Camden logged 24.6 property and 6.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Camden leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,879.
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Camden offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (16.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 406 | 4049.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 292 | 2912.7 |
| Burglary | 90 | 897.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 24 | 239.4 |
| Arson | 3 | 29.9 |
| Violent Crime | 109 | 1087.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 94 | 937.7 |
| Rape | 8 | 79.8 |
| Robbery | 6 | 59.9 |
| Murder | 1 | 10 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 10,605 | 1075 | 3064.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 10,499 | 1381.1 | 3609.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,223 | 1066.2 | 3805.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 10,151 | 1192 | 3595.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 10,025 | 1087.3 | 4049.9 |
Camden Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Camden's 515 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 Camden in population. Their populations run from 9,022 to 11,155, against 10,025 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Camden sits at 1,087.3/100K violent (grade F); the Arkansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Camden at 1,087.3/100K violent and 4,049.9/100K property - matched below outside Arkansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,087.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
4,049.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Camden reported 109 violent crimes and 406 property crimes, for a total of 515 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Camden's violent crime rate decreased by 8.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 12.6%.
The most common crime type in Camden is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.7% of all reported crimes (292 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Camden 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 Camden's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Camden, 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. Camden is scored in the mid-size municipal band (10,025 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.