De Valls Bluff, AR has a D safety grade (25/100) with a violent crime rate of 1008 per 100,000, 186% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
De Valls Bluff's UCR row covers a small municipal population (496). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to AR and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
De Valls Bluff, AR carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 186% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, De Valls Bluff, AR shows violent crime at 1,008.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 604.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 186% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 62.5% of the 8 Part I offenses reported in De Valls Bluff for 2024, against a median of 21.0% across comparable Arkansas cities — a gap of 41.5 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.
Small-count caution
De Valls Bluff reported 5 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 496. 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 1008.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, De Valls Bluff ranks 17 of 204 — above 187 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +229.2% 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 De Valls Bluff's 1008.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Caddo Valley (1018.7), Wynne (1022.9), Star City (966.2), Bald Knob (956.6). 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 100.0% of reported property offenses in De Valls Bluff, against a cohort median of 74.4%. The remainder is burglary (0) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Violent counts are the sharper signal on De Valls Bluff's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. 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.
Based on 5 reported violent incidents in a population of 496. 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 1.1 Census sq mi, De Valls Bluff logged 2.7 property and 4.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
De Valls Bluff's 2024 book concentrates in aggravated assault (50% of 8 offenses; mix index 4,063).
Violent offenses are 63% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
De Valls Bluff offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.1 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 5 | 1008.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 4 | 806.5 |
| Rape | 1 | 201.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 3 | 604.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 3 | 604.8 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 2 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2023-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Comparable | 497 | 201.2 | 1207.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 496 | 1008.1 | 604.8 |
De Valls Bluff Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind De Valls Bluff's 8 reported offenses (2-year span 2023-2024).
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 De Valls Bluff in population. Their populations run from 422 to 565, against 496 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, De Valls Bluff reported 5 violent crimes and 3 property crimes, for a total of 8 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, De Valls Bluff's violent crime rate increased by 401%, and the property crime rate decreased by 49.9%.
The most common crime type in De Valls Bluff is aggravated assault, accounting for 50.0% of all reported crimes (4 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: De Valls Bluff'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 De Valls Bluff's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 De Valls Bluff, AR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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