Hot Springs Village, AR has a A+ safety grade (90/100) with a violent crime rate of 88 per 100,000, 75% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Hot Springs Village (15,861 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then AR and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Hot Springs Village, AR carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 75% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hot Springs Village, AR shows violent crime at 88.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 189.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 75% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A+ from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Hot Springs Village reported 14 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 15,861. 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 Hot Springs Village's 88.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pottsville (90.1), Piggott (85.5), Caraway (92.1), Cave Springs (96.0). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 88.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hot Springs Village ranks 176 of 204 — above 28 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -71.3% 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 31.8% of the 44 Part I offenses reported in Hot Springs Village for 2024, against a median of 21.0% across comparable Arkansas cities — a gap of 10.8 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 90.0% of reported property offenses in Hot Springs Village, against a cohort median of 74.4%. The remainder is burglary (3) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Hot Springs Village'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 14 reported violent incidents in a population of 15,861. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 57.6 Census sq mi, Hot Springs Village logged 0.5 property and 0.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hot Springs Village's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 44 offenses; mix index 4,483).
Violent offenses are 32% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Hot Springs Village offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (57.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 30 | 189.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 27 | 170.2 |
| Burglary | 3 | 18.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 14 | 88.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 11 | 69.4 |
| Rape | 3 | 18.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Hot Springs Village Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hot Springs Village's 44 reported offenses (1-year span 2024-2024).
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 Hot Springs Village in population. Their populations run from 12,036 to 19,516, against 15,861 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Hot Springs Village sits at 88.3/100K violent (grade A+); the Arkansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Hot Springs Village at 88.3/100K violent and 189.1/100K property - matched below outside Arkansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
88.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
189.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Hot Springs Village reported 14 violent crimes and 30 property crimes, for a total of 44 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Hot Springs Village is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.4% of all reported crimes (27 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hot Springs Village 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Hot Springs Village's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hot Springs Village, 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. Hot Springs Village is scored in the mid-size municipal band (15,861 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.