Searcy, AR has a C safety grade (41/100) with a violent crime rate of 398 per 100,000, 13% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Searcy (24,108 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
Searcy, AR carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 13% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Searcy, AR shows violent crime at 398.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,269 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 13% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 859.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 398.2 in 2024 (-53.7%). The highest observed value was 859.2 in 2020 and the lowest 398.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Searcy's 398.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Dardanelle (399.6), Rose Bud (401.6), Manila (402.8), McCrory (406.8). 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 are 14.9% of the 643 Part I offenses reported in Searcy for 2024, against a median of 21.1% across comparable Arkansas cities — a gap of 6.2 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 is 84.5% of reported property offenses in Searcy, against a cohort median of 74.4%. The remainder is burglary (43) and motor vehicle theft (42). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 398.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Searcy ranks 88 of 204 — above 116 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +30.1% 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 Searcy'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 18.3 Census sq mi, Searcy logged 29.9 property and 5.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Searcy's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 643 offenses; mix index 5,395).
Violent offenses are only 15% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Searcy offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (18.3 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 | 547 | 2269 |
| Larceny-Theft | 462 | 1916.4 |
| Burglary | 43 | 178.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 42 | 174.2 |
| Arson | 2 | 8.3 |
| Violent Crime | 96 | 398.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 76 | 315.2 |
| Rape | 13 | 53.9 |
| Robbery | 7 | 29 |
| 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 | 23,742 | 859.2 | 4094 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 23,604 | 656.7 | 4130.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 23,175 | 517.8 | 3758.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 23,035 | 455.8 | 3316.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 24,108 | 398.2 | 2269 |
Searcy Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Searcy's 643 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 Searcy in population. Their populations run from 19,516 to 28,958, against 24,108 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Searcy sits at 398.2/100K violent (grade C); the Arkansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Searcy at 398.2/100K violent and 2,269/100K property - matched below outside Arkansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
398.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,269/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Searcy reported 96 violent crimes and 547 property crimes, for a total of 643 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Searcy's violent crime rate decreased by 12.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 31.6%.
The most common crime type in Searcy is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.9% of all reported crimes (462 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Searcy 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 Searcy's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Searcy, 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. Searcy is scored in the mid-size municipal band (24,108 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.