Little Rock, AR has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1672 per 100,000, 375% above the national average.
At 204,247 residents, Little Rock 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.
Little Rock, AR carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 375% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Little Rock, AR shows violent crime at 1,672 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 5,214.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 375% 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.
The verdict
Little Rock earns an F safety grade: violent crime runs 375% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
Position in the state cohort
At 1672.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Little Rock ranks 3 of 204 — above 201 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +446.1% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Little Rock's 1672.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Helena-West Helena (1630.2), Pine Bluff (1580.8), Marianna (1819.3), Brinkley (1498.4). 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.
Share of the state cohort
The 14,065 Part I offenses reported here are 22.6% of the 62,233 reported across all 204 comparable Arkansas cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 204,247 rather than as a uniform shift.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1851.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1672.0 in 2024 (-9.7%). The highest observed value was 2063.5 in 2021 and the lowest 1672.0 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 24.3% of the 14,065 Part I offenses reported in Little Rock for 2024, against a median of 21.0% across comparable Arkansas cities — a gap of 3.3 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 Little Rock'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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 10,650 | 5214.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 7,810 | 3823.8 |
| Burglary | 1,914 | 937.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 926 | 453.4 |
| Arson | 61 | 29.9 |
| Violent Crime | 3,415 | 1672 |
| Aggravated Assault | 2,699 | 1321.4 |
| Robbery | 445 | 217.9 |
| Rape | 235 | 115.1 |
| Murder | 36 | 17.6 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 197,688 | 1851.9 | 4895.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 198,260 | 2063.5 | 5416.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 201,513 | 1833.1 | 5382.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 202,986 | 1801.6 | 5464.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 204,247 | 1672 | 5214.3 |
Little Rock's crime figures on this page originate from Little Rock Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Little Rock in population. Their populations run from 61,109 to 104,089, against 204,247 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Arkansas cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Little Rock's 1,672/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Large-city read: Little Rock'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.
Large-city rate methodology for how Little Rock's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Little Rock, 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. Little Rock is scored here as a large city UCR reporter (204,247 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.