Fairfield Bay, AR has a B safety grade (65/100) with a violent crime rate of 229 per 100,000, 35% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Fairfield Bay's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,185). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to AR and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Fairfield Bay, AR carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 35% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fairfield Bay, AR shows violent crime at 228.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,373 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 35% 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
Fairfield Bay reported 5 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,185. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 598.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 228.8 in 2024 (-61.7%). The highest observed value was 598.3 in 2020 and the lowest 184.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Fairfield Bay's 228.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hackett (230.4), Flippin (226.2), Gosnell (223.9), Farmington (235.7). 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 96.7% of reported property offenses in Fairfield Bay, against a cohort median of 74.4%. The remainder is burglary (1) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 228.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fairfield Bay ranks 132 of 204 — above 72 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -25.7% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 14.3% of the 35 Part I offenses reported in Fairfield Bay for 2024, against a median of 21.1% across comparable Arkansas cities — a gap of 6.9 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 counts dominate Fairfield Bay'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 5 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,185. 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 15.1 Census sq mi, Fairfield Bay logged 2 property and 0.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Fairfield Bay's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (83% of 35 offenses; mix index 7,012).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Fairfield Bay offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (15.1 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 30 | 1373 |
| Larceny-Theft | 29 | 1327.2 |
| Burglary | 1 | 45.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 5 | 228.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 4 | 183.1 |
| Rape | 1 | 45.8 |
| 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 | 2,173 | 598.3 | 1932.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,164 | 184.8 | 1894.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,111 | 236.9 | 1705.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,174 | 552 | 1012 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,185 | 228.8 | 1373 |
Fairfield Bay Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Fairfield Bay's 35 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 Fairfield Bay in population. Their populations run from 2,016 to 2,355, against 2,185 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Fairfield Bay sits at 228.8/100K violent (grade B); the Arkansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Fairfield Bay reported 5 violent crimes and 30 property crimes, for a total of 35 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Fairfield Bay's violent crime rate decreased by 58.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 35.7%.
The most common crime type in Fairfield Bay is larceny-theft, accounting for 82.9% of all reported crimes (29 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Fairfield Bay'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 Fairfield Bay's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Fairfield Bay, AR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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