Mountain Home, AR carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 22% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mountain Home, AR shows violent crime at 275.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,256.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 22% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
275.6/100K violent
2256.6/100K property
-22% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Mountain Home, AR
Comparable rate records
Mountain Home's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Arkansas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mountain Home's 275.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Berryville (276.7), Des Arc (273.8), White Hall (277.9), Ward (281.4). 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 10.9% of the 340 Part I offenses reported in Mountain Home for 2024, against a median of 21.1% across comparable Arkansas cities — a gap of 10.3 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 85.8% of reported property offenses in Mountain Home, against a cohort median of 74.4%. The remainder is burglary (32) and motor vehicle theft (11). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
Mountain Home sits mid-pack among comparable Arkansas cities
At 275.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mountain Home ranks 117 of 204 — above 87 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -10.6% 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 294.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 275.6 in 2024 (-6.3%). The highest observed value was 326.3 in 2022 and the lowest 221.2 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Mountain Home'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.
Mountain Home's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 12 Census sq mi, Mountain Home logged 25.2 property and 3.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mountain Home's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (76% of 340 offenses; mix index 6,020).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (12 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-7.6%
2442 → 2256.6/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-0.9%
278 → 275.6/100K
Property offenses lead Mountain Home's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
303
2256.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
260
1936.4
-
Burglary
32
238.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
11
81.9
-
Arson
3
22.3
-
Violent Crime
37
275.6
352
Aggravated Assault
28
208.5
-
Rape
7
52.1
-
Murder
1
7.4
-
Robbery
1
7.4
-
Mountain Home Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Mountain Home property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Mountain Home Police Department
Reporting agency for Mountain Home NIBRS-participating
Mountain Home Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mountain Home's 340 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Arkansas
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Arkansas cities closest to Mountain Home in population. Their populations run from 11,155 to 15,861, against 13,427 here. Or use our
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Mountain Home at 275.6/100K violent and 2,256.6/100K property - matched below outside Arkansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Mountain Home reported 37 violent crimes and 303 property crimes, for a total of 340 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Mountain Home?
From 2023 to 2024, Mountain Home's violent crime rate decreased by 0.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 7.6%.
What is the most common crime in Mountain Home?
The most common crime type in Mountain Home is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.5% of all reported crimes (260 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Mountain Home 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Mountain Home, AR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.