Marianna, AR has a F safety grade (6/100) with a violent crime rate of 1819 per 100,000, 417% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Marianna is a small municipal reporter (3,243 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with AR and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Marianna, AR carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 417% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Marianna, AR shows violent crime at 1,819.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,713.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 417% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 782.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1819.3 in 2024 (+132.7%). The highest observed value was 1819.3 in 2024 and the lowest 782.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 1819.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Marianna ranks 2 of 204 — above 202 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +494.2% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 40.1% of the 147 Part I offenses reported in Marianna for 2024, against a median of 21.0% across comparable Arkansas cities — a gap of 19.1 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Marianna's 1819.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are West Memphis (1922.3), Little Rock (1672.0), Helena-West Helena (1630.2), Pine Bluff (1580.8). 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 counts dominate Marianna'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 3.6 Census sq mi, Marianna logged 24.3 property and 16.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Marianna leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,839.
Violent offenses are 40% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Marianna offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.6 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 | 88 | 2713.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 61 | 1881 |
| Burglary | 17 | 524.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 10 | 308.4 |
| Arson | 1 | 30.8 |
| Violent Crime | 59 | 1819.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 43 | 1325.9 |
| Rape | 13 | 400.9 |
| Murder | 2 | 61.7 |
| Robbery | 1 | 30.8 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 3,325 | 782 | 3488.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 3,219 | 838.8 | 3541.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 3,635 | 797.8 | 3438.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 3,382 | 798.3 | 2720.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,243 | 1819.3 | 2713.5 |
Marianna Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Marianna's 147 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 Marianna in population. Their populations run from 2,986 to 3,354, against 3,243 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Marianna sits at 1,819.3/100K violent (grade F); the Arkansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Marianna reported 59 violent crimes and 88 property crimes, for a total of 147 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Marianna's violent crime rate increased by 127.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 0.2%.
The most common crime type in Marianna is larceny-theft, accounting for 41.5% of all reported crimes (61 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Marianna is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Marianna's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Marianna, 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. Marianna is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (3,243 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.