Marion, AR has a F safety grade (12/100) with a violent crime rate of 778 per 100,000, 121% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Marion (13,619 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
Marion, AR carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 121% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Marion, AR shows violent crime at 778.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,092.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 121% 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 Marion's 778.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Crossett (776.6), Paris (785.0), Fordyce (786.9), Magnolia (788.7). 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 778.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Marion ranks 29 of 204 — above 175 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +154.2% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1278.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 778.3 in 2024 (-39.1%). The highest observed value was 1278.0 in 2020 and the lowest 629.0 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 27.1% of the 391 Part I offenses reported in Marion for 2024, against a median of 21.0% across comparable Arkansas cities — a gap of 6.1 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.
Property counts dominate Marion'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 20.3 Census sq mi, Marion logged 14.1 property and 5.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Marion leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,688.
Violent offenses are 27% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Marion offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (20.3 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 | 285 | 2092.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 211 | 1549.3 |
| Burglary | 40 | 293.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 34 | 249.7 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 106 | 778.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 95 | 697.6 |
| Rape | 8 | 58.7 |
| Robbery | 3 | 22 |
| 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 | 12,285 | 1278 | 2995.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 12,266 | 1141.4 | 2861.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 13,602 | 705.8 | 2823.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 13,514 | 629 | 2723.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 13,619 | 778.3 | 2092.7 |
Marion Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Marion's 391 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 Marion in population. Their populations run from 11,155 to 15,861, against 13,619 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Marion sits at 778.3/100K violent (grade F); the Arkansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Marion at 778.3/100K violent and 2,092.7/100K property - matched below outside Arkansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
778.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,092.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Marion reported 106 violent crimes and 285 property crimes, for a total of 391 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Marion's violent crime rate increased by 23.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 23.2%.
The most common crime type in Marion is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.0% of all reported crimes (211 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Marion 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 Marion's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Marion, 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. Marion is scored in the mid-size municipal band (13,619 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.