North Little Rock, AR has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1180 per 100,000, 235% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
North Little Rock, AR Crime Rate & Safety
At 64,487 residents, North Little Rock is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against AR and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
North Little Rock, AR carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 235% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, North Little Rock, AR shows violent crime at 1,180.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,312.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 235% 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.
F safety grade
1180.1/100K violent
4312.5/100K property
+235% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for North Little Rock, AR
Position in the state cohort
North Little Rock reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Arkansas cities
At 1180.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, North Little Rock ranks 11 of 204 — above 193 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +285.4% 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.
Comparable rate records
North Little Rock's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Arkansas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to North Little Rock's 1180.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Trumann (1180.9), Forrest City (1175.8), Dumas (1151.0), Camden (1087.3). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 995.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1180.1 in 2024 (+18.6%). The highest observed value was 1247.4 in 2023 and the lowest 995.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate North Little Rock'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
North Little Rock's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 53 Census sq mi, North Little Rock logged 52.4 property and 14.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
North Little Rock leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,880.
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (53 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-5.4%
1247.4 → 1180.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
+4%
4146.3 → 4312.5/100K
Property offenses lead North Little Rock's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs AR
Property Crime
2,781
4312.5
1711
1939.5
Larceny-Theft
2,057
3189.8
-
-
Burglary
388
601.7
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
336
521
-
-
Arson
11
17.1
-
-
Violent Crime
761
1180.1
352
580.1
Aggravated Assault
599
928.9
-
-
Robbery
117
181.4
-
-
Rape
26
40.3
-
-
Murder
19
29.5
-
-
North Little Rock Crime Trend (2020-2024)
North Little Rock property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
North Little Rock Police Department
Reporting agency for North Little Rock NIBRS-participating
North Little Rock Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind North Little Rock's 3,542 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 North Little Rock in population. Their populations run from 38,001 to 89,977, against 64,487 here. Or use our
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North Little Rock at 1,180.1/100K violent and 4,312.5/100K property - matched below outside Arkansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in North Little Rock?
In 2024, North Little Rock reported 761 violent crimes and 2,781 property crimes, for a total of 3,542 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in North Little Rock?
From 2023 to 2024, North Little Rock's violent crime rate decreased by 5.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 4%.
What is the most common crime in North Little Rock?
The most common crime type in North Little Rock is larceny-theft, accounting for 58.1% of all reported crimes (2,057 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: North Little Rock's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 North Little Rock, AR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.