Cave City, AR has a B safety grade (63/100) with a violent crime rate of 298 per 100,000, 15% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Cave City's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,016). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to AR and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Cave City, AR carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 15% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cave City, AR shows violent crime at 297.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 793.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 15% 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.
Small-count caution
Cave City reported 6 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,016. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Cave City's 297.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Johnson (297.9), Waldron (298.2), Little Flock (297.0), Gentry (299.9). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 27.3% of the 22 Part I offenses reported in Cave City for 2024, against a median of 21.0% across comparable Arkansas cities — a gap of 6.2 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 is 87.5% of reported property offenses in Cave City, against a cohort median of 74.4%. The remainder is burglary (1) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 297.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cave City ranks 108 of 204 — above 96 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -3.4% 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 counts dominate Cave City'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.
Based on 6 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,016. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 2.4 Census sq mi, Cave City logged 6.5 property and 2.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Cave City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 22 offenses; mix index 4,628).
Violent offenses are 27% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Cave City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.4 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 | 16 | 793.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 14 | 694.4 |
| Burglary | 1 | 49.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 49.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 6 | 297.6 |
| Rape | 5 | 248 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 49.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Cave City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Cave City's 22 reported offenses (1-year span 2024-2024).
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 Cave City in population. Their populations run from 1,866 to 2,072, against 2,016 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Cave City reported 6 violent crimes and 16 property crimes, for a total of 22 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Cave City is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.6% of all reported crimes (14 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Cave City's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Cave City's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Cave City, 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. Cave City is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (2,016 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.