Russellville, AR carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 1% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Russellville, AR shows violent crime at 349.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,384.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 1% 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
349.5/100K violent
1384.6/100K property
-1% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Russellville, AR
Comparable rate records
Russellville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Arkansas cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Russellville's 349.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Carlisle (348.8), Cabot (354.0), Barling (354.1), Heber Springs (354.6). 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 481.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 349.5 in 2024 (-27.4%). The highest observed value was 638.0 in 2021 and the lowest 349.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 87.7% of reported property offenses in Russellville, against a cohort median of 74.4%. The remainder is burglary (31) and motor vehicle theft (19). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
Russellville sits mid-pack among comparable Arkansas cities
At 349.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Russellville ranks 95 of 204 — above 109 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +14.2% 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.
Property counts dominate Russellville'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.
Russellville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 28.3 Census sq mi, Russellville logged 14.4 property and 3.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Russellville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 511 offenses; mix index 5,299).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (28.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-35.8%
544.1 → 349.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-33.7%
2087.4 → 1384.6/100K
Property offenses lead Russellville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs AR
Property Crime
408
1384.6
1939.5
Larceny-Theft
358
1214.9
-
Burglary
31
105.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
19
64.5
-
Arson
1
3.4
-
Violent Crime
103
349.5
580.1
Aggravated Assault
94
319
-
Rape
7
23.8
-
Robbery
2
6.8
-
Murder
0
0
-
Russellville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Russellville 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
Russellville Police Department
Reporting agency for Russellville NIBRS-participating
Russellville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Russellville's 511 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 Russellville in population. Their populations run from 24,446 to 33,223, against 29,467 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Russellville reported 103 violent crimes and 408 property crimes, for a total of 511 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Russellville?
From 2023 to 2024, Russellville's violent crime rate decreased by 35.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 33.7%.
What is the most common crime in Russellville?
The most common crime type in Russellville is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.1% of all reported crimes (358 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Russellville 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 Russellville, AR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.