Hope, AR has a F safety grade (2/100) with a violent crime rate of 711 per 100,000, 102% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Hope is a small municipal reporter (8,445 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with AR and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Hope, AR carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 102% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hope, AR shows violent crime at 710.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,197.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 102% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F 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 Hope's 710.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Beebe (709.4), Jonesboro (719.9), Clarendon (693.5), Ozark (665.7). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 710.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hope ranks 32 of 204 — above 172 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +132.0% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1372.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 710.5 in 2024 (-48.2%). The highest observed value was 1372.7 in 2020 and the lowest 710.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Hope'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 10.7 Census sq mi, Hope logged 25.3 property and 5.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hope's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 330 offenses; mix index 4,377).
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Hope offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.7 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 | 270 | 3197.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 207 | 2451.2 |
| Burglary | 41 | 485.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 22 | 260.5 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 60 | 710.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 51 | 603.9 |
| Rape | 7 | 82.9 |
| Murder | 1 | 11.8 |
| Robbery | 1 | 11.8 |
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 | 9,543 | 1372.7 | 3594.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 9,373 | 1216.3 | 3254 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,535 | 1042.8 | 3585.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,489 | 1060.2 | 3781.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,445 | 710.5 | 3197.2 |
Hope Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hope's 330 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 Hope in population. Their populations run from 7,668 to 9,022, against 8,445 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Hope sits at 710.5/100K violent (grade F); the Arkansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Hope reported 60 violent crimes and 270 property crimes, for a total of 330 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Hope's violent crime rate decreased by 33%, and the property crime rate decreased by 15.4%.
The most common crime type in Hope is larceny-theft, accounting for 62.7% of all reported crimes (207 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Hope is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Hope's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hope, AR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Hope is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (8,445 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.