Malvern, AR has a F safety grade (14/100) with a violent crime rate of 654 per 100,000, 86% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Malvern (11,155 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
Malvern, AR carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 86% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Malvern, AR shows violent crime at 654.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,402.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 86% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Malvern's 654.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Decatur (644.4), Pocahontas (665.1), Ozark (665.7), Mayflower (636.9). 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 654.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Malvern ranks 37 of 204 — above 167 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +113.7% 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 911.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 654.4 in 2024 (-28.2%). The highest observed value was 999.5 in 2021 and the lowest 653.3 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 61.2% of reported property offenses in Malvern, against a cohort median of 74.8%. The remainder is burglary (90) and motor vehicle theft (14). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Malvern'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 9.7 Census sq mi, Malvern logged 27.7 property and 7.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Malvern leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,329.
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Malvern offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.7 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 | 268 | 2402.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 164 | 1470.2 |
| Burglary | 90 | 806.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 14 | 125.5 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 73 | 654.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 58 | 519.9 |
| Rape | 12 | 107.6 |
| Robbery | 3 | 26.9 |
| Murder | 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 | 10,966 | 911.9 | 3884.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 10,805 | 999.5 | 4803.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,824 | 757.6 | 3723.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 11,021 | 653.3 | 2867.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 11,155 | 654.4 | 2402.5 |
Malvern Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Malvern's 341 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 Malvern in population. Their populations run from 10,025 to 12,354, against 11,155 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Malvern sits at 654.4/100K violent (grade F); the Arkansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Malvern at 654.4/100K violent and 2,402.5/100K property - matched below outside Arkansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
654.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,402.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Malvern reported 73 violent crimes and 268 property crimes, for a total of 341 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Malvern's violent crime rate increased by 0.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16.2%.
The most common crime type in Malvern is larceny-theft, accounting for 48.1% of all reported crimes (164 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Malvern 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 Malvern's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Malvern, 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. Malvern is scored in the mid-size municipal band (11,155 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.