Hot Springs, AR carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 52% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hot Springs, AR shows violent crime at 534.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,163 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 52% 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.
F safety grade
534.2/100K violent
4163/100K property
+52% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Hot Springs, AR
Comparable rate records
Hot Springs's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Arkansas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hot Springs's 534.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Morrilton (534.3), Sheridan (531.5), Judsonia (529.4), Monticello (543.5). 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
Hot Springs sits mid-pack among comparable Arkansas cities
At 534.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hot Springs ranks 52 of 204 — above 152 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +74.5% 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 755.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 534.2 in 2024 (-29.3%). The highest observed value was 755.9 in 2020 and the lowest 491.8 in 2021. 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 11.4% of the 1,785 Part I offenses reported in Hot Springs for 2024, against a median of 21.1% across comparable Arkansas cities — a gap of 9.8 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 Hot 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Hot Springs's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 37.6 Census sq mi, Hot Springs logged 42.1 property and 5.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hot Springs's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 1,785 offenses; mix index 4,801).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (37.6 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
-31%
6029.3 → 4163/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+2%
523.8 → 534.2/100K
Property offenses lead Hot Springs's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs AR
Property Crime
1,582
4163
1711
1939.5
Larceny-Theft
1,193
3139.4
-
-
Burglary
267
702.6
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
122
321
-
-
Arson
10
26.3
-
-
Violent Crime
203
534.2
352
580.1
Aggravated Assault
134
352.6
-
-
Rape
43
113.2
-
-
Robbery
20
52.6
-
-
Murder
6
15.8
-
-
Hot Springs Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Hot Springs 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
Hot Springs Police Department
Reporting agency for Hot Springs NIBRS-participating
Hot Springs Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hot Springs's 1,785 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Arkansas cities closest to Hot Springs in population. Their populations run from 28,958 to 38,524, against 38,001 here. Or use our
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Hot Springs at 534.2/100K violent and 4,163/100K property - matched below outside Arkansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Hot Springs reported 203 violent crimes and 1,582 property crimes, for a total of 1,785 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Hot Springs?
From 2023 to 2024, Hot Springs's violent crime rate increased by 2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 31%.
What is the most common crime in Hot Springs?
The most common crime type in Hot Springs is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.8% of all reported crimes (1,193 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hot Springs figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hot Springs, AR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.