Fayetteville, AR has a D safety grade (37/100) with a violent crime rate of 424 per 100,000, 20% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Fayetteville, AR Crime Rate & Safety
At 104,089 residents, Fayetteville is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against AR and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Fayetteville, AR carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 20% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fayetteville, AR shows violent crime at 423.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,371 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 20% 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.
D safety grade
423.7/100K violent
2371/100K property
+20% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Fayetteville, AR
Comparable rate records
Fayetteville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Arkansas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Fayetteville's 423.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Nashville (423.9), Quitman (426.1), Hamburg (420.3), Kensett (427.0). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 588.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 423.7 in 2024 (-28.0%). The highest observed value was 625.3 in 2021 and the lowest 423.7 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 15.2% of the 2,909 Part I offenses reported in Fayetteville for 2024, against a median of 21.1% across comparable Arkansas cities — a gap of 6.0 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
Fayetteville sits mid-pack among comparable Arkansas cities
At 423.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fayetteville ranks 80 of 204 — above 124 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +38.4% 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 Fayetteville'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Fayetteville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 54.8 Census sq mi, Fayetteville logged 45.1 property and 8.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Fayetteville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 2,909 offenses; mix index 5,107).
Violent offenses are 15% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (54.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-26.7%
3236.4 → 2371/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-1%
428 → 423.7/100K
Property offenses lead Fayetteville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
2,468
2371
1711
Larceny-Theft
2,024
1944.5
-
Burglary
238
228.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
206
197.9
-
Arson
2
1.9
-
Violent Crime
441
423.7
352
Aggravated Assault
350
336.3
-
Rape
55
52.8
-
Robbery
28
26.9
-
Murder
8
7.7
-
Fayetteville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Fayetteville property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Fayetteville Police Department
Reporting agency for Fayetteville NIBRS-participating
Fayetteville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Fayetteville's 2,909 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Arkansas
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In 2024, Fayetteville reported 441 violent crimes and 2,468 property crimes, for a total of 2,909 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Fayetteville?
From 2023 to 2024, Fayetteville's violent crime rate decreased by 1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 26.7%.
What is the most common crime in Fayetteville?
The most common crime type in Fayetteville is larceny-theft, accounting for 69.6% of all reported crimes (2,024 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Fayetteville's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Fayetteville, AR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.