Centerton, AR has a A safety grade (83/100) with a violent crime rate of 145 per 100,000, 59% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Centerton (26,233 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
Centerton, AR carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 59% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Centerton, AR shows violent crime at 144.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 240.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 59% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Centerton's 144.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lake City (146.6), Haskell (143.1), Perryville (141.6), Guy (135.0). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 37.6% of the 101 Part I offenses reported in Centerton for 2024, against a median of 21.0% across comparable Arkansas cities — a gap of 16.6 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 144.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Centerton ranks 161 of 204 — above 43 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -53.0% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 214.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 144.9 in 2024 (-32.6%). The highest observed value was 226.4 in 2023 and the lowest 144.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 66.7% of reported property offenses in Centerton, against a cohort median of 74.8%. The remainder is burglary (17) and motor vehicle theft (4). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Centerton'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 14.3 Census sq mi, Centerton logged 4.4 property and 2.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Centerton leans on larceny-theft at 42% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,234.
Violent offenses are 38% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a mid-size city.
Centerton offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (14.3 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 | 63 | 240.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 42 | 160.1 |
| Burglary | 17 | 64.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 15.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 38 | 144.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 35 | 133.4 |
| Rape | 2 | 7.6 |
| Murder | 1 | 3.8 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 17,220 | 214.9 | 551.7 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 18,857 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 21,927 | 205.2 | 424.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 23,406 | 226.4 | 367.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 26,233 | 144.9 | 240.2 |
Centerton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Centerton's 101 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Centerton in population. Their populations run from 22,262 to 29,467, against 26,233 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Centerton sits at 144.9/100K violent (grade A); the Arkansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Centerton at 144.9/100K violent and 240.2/100K property - matched below outside Arkansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
144.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
240.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Centerton reported 38 violent crimes and 63 property crimes, for a total of 101 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Centerton's violent crime rate decreased by 36%, and the property crime rate decreased by 34.6%.
The most common crime type in Centerton is larceny-theft, accounting for 41.6% of all reported crimes (42 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Centerton 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 Centerton's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Centerton, AR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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