Pea Ridge, AR carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 5% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Pea Ridge, AR shows violent crime at 369.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 590.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 5% above 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
369.2/100K violent
590.7/100K property
+5% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Pea Ridge, AR
Comparable rate records
Pea Ridge's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Arkansas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Pea Ridge's 369.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mena (372.8), Eureka Springs (363.5), Heber Springs (354.6), Barling (354.1). 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
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 38.5% of the 91 Part I offenses reported in Pea Ridge for 2024, against a median of 21.0% across comparable Arkansas cities — a gap of 17.4 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 66.1% of reported property offenses in Pea Ridge, against a cohort median of 74.8%. The remainder is burglary (12) and motor vehicle theft (7). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 406.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 369.2 in 2024 (-9.1%). The highest observed value was 406.4 in 2020 and the lowest 195.4 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Pea Ridge sits mid-pack among comparable Arkansas cities
At 369.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Pea Ridge ranks 90 of 204 — above 114 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +20.6% 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.
Property counts dominate Pea Ridge'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.
Pea Ridge's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 8 Census sq mi, Pea Ridge logged 7 property and 4.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Pea Ridge leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,989.
Violent offenses are 38% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8 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
+36.2%
433.6 → 590.7/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+12.5%
328.1 → 369.2/100K
Property offenses lead Pea Ridge's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs AR
vs US avg
Property Crime
56
590.7
1939.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
37
390.3
-
-
Burglary
12
126.6
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
7
73.8
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
35
369.2
580.1
352
Aggravated Assault
30
316.5
-
-
Robbery
3
31.6
-
-
Rape
2
21.1
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Pea Ridge Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Pea Ridge 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
Pea Ridge Police Department
Reporting agency for Pea Ridge NIBRS-participating
Pea Ridge Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Pea Ridge's 91 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 Pea Ridge in population. Their populations run from 8,445 to 10,222, against 9,480 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Pea Ridge reported 35 violent crimes and 56 property crimes, for a total of 91 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Pea Ridge?
From 2023 to 2024, Pea Ridge's violent crime rate increased by 12.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 36.2%.
What is the most common crime in Pea Ridge?
The most common crime type in Pea Ridge is larceny-theft, accounting for 40.7% of all reported crimes (37 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Pea Ridge 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Pea Ridge, AR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.