Eureka Springs, AR has a C safety grade (48/100) with a violent crime rate of 364 per 100,000, 3% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Eureka Springs's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,201). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to AR and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Eureka Springs, AR carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 3% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Eureka Springs, AR shows violent crime at 363.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,771.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 3% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Eureka Springs reported 8 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,201. 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 Eureka Springs's 363.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pea Ridge (369.2), Heber Springs (354.6), Mena (372.8), Barling (354.1). 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 521.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 363.5 in 2024 (-30.3%). The highest observed value was 671.5 in 2021 and the lowest 363.0 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 17.0% of the 47 Part I offenses reported in Eureka Springs for 2024, against a median of 21.1% across comparable Arkansas cities — a gap of 4.1 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 66.7% of reported property offenses in Eureka Springs, against a cohort median of 74.8%. The remainder is burglary (8) and motor vehicle theft (5). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 363.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Eureka Springs ranks 91 of 204 — above 113 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +18.7% 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.
Property counts dominate Eureka Springs'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 8 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,201. 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 6.8 Census sq mi, Eureka Springs logged 5.8 property and 1.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Eureka Springs leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,644.
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Eureka Springs offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.8 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 | 39 | 1771.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 26 | 1181.3 |
| Burglary | 8 | 363.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5 | 227.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 8 | 363.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 6 | 272.6 |
| Rape | 2 | 90.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,110 | 521.3 | 3459.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,085 | 671.5 | 2398.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,195 | 546.7 | 2232.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,204 | 363 | 1769.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,201 | 363.5 | 1771.9 |
Eureka Springs Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Eureka Springs's 47 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 Eureka Springs in population. Their populations run from 2,070 to 2,362, against 2,201 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Eureka Springs sits at 363.5/100K violent (grade C); the Arkansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Eureka Springs reported 8 violent crimes and 39 property crimes, for a total of 47 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Eureka Springs's violent crime rate increased by 0.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 0.1%.
The most common crime type in Eureka Springs is larceny-theft, accounting for 55.3% of all reported crimes (26 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Eureka Springs'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 Eureka Springs's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Eureka Springs, AR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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