Lowell, AR has a B safety grade (69/100) with a violent crime rate of 258 per 100,000, 27% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Lowell (12,036 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
Lowell, AR carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 27% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lowell, AR shows violent crime at 257.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 639.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 27% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B 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 Lowell's 257.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Corning (259.2), Hardy (259.7), Bentonville (255.3), Damascus (254.5). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 48.1% of reported property offenses in Lowell, against a cohort median of 74.8%. The remainder is burglary (36) and motor vehicle theft (4). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 28.7% of the 108 Part I offenses reported in Lowell for 2024, against a median of 21.0% across comparable Arkansas cities — a gap of 7.7 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 257.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lowell ranks 123 of 204 — above 81 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -16.4% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 274.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 257.6 in 2024 (-6.3%). The highest observed value was 285.1 in 2021 and the lowest 214.3 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Lowell'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.
Across 9.8 Census sq mi, Lowell logged 7.9 property and 3.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lowell leans on larceny-theft at 34% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,783.
Violent offenses are 29% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Lowell offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.8 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 | 77 | 639.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 37 | 307.4 |
| Burglary | 36 | 299.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 33.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 31 | 257.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 22 | 182.8 |
| Rape | 9 | 74.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
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 | 9,825 | 274.8 | 1516.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 10,171 | 285.1 | 1258.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,402 | 250 | 1019 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 11,665 | 214.3 | 797.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,036 | 257.6 | 639.7 |
Lowell Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lowell's 108 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 Lowell in population. Their populations run from 10,608 to 13,524, against 12,036 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lowell sits at 257.6/100K violent (grade B); the Arkansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Lowell at 257.6/100K violent and 639.7/100K property - matched below outside Arkansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
257.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
639.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Lowell reported 31 violent crimes and 77 property crimes, for a total of 108 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lowell's violent crime rate increased by 20.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 19.8%.
The most common crime type in Lowell is larceny-theft, accounting for 34.3% of all reported crimes (37 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Lowell 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 Lowell's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lowell, AR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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