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.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
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.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Little Rock, AR is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 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.
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.
Across 121.2 Census sq mi, Little Rock logged 87.8 property and 28.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Little Rock leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,693.
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Little Rock offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (121.2 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 | 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 Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Little Rock's 14,065 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 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.
Little Rock sits at 1,672/100K violent (grade F); the Arkansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Little Rock at 1,672/100K violent and 5,214.3/100K property - matched below outside Arkansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,672/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
5,214.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-7.2% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Little Rock reported 3,415 violent crimes and 10,650 property crimes, for a total of 14,065 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Little Rock's violent crime rate decreased by 7.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 4.6%.
The most common crime type in Little Rock is larceny-theft, accounting for 55.5% of all reported crimes (7,810 incidents in 2024).
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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