Shannon Hills, AR has a B safety grade (69/100) with a violent crime rate of 253 per 100,000, 28% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Shannon Hills is a small municipal reporter (4,743 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with AR and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Shannon Hills, AR carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 28% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Shannon Hills, AR shows violent crime at 253 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 695.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 28% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Shannon Hills reported 12 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,743. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 536.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 253.0 in 2024 (-52.9%). The highest observed value was 619.6 in 2021 and the lowest 253.0 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 Shannon Hills's 253.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Warren (252.9), Lakeview (253.5), Damascus (254.5), Bentonville (255.3). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 253.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Shannon Hills ranks 127 of 204 — above 77 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -17.9% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 26.7% of the 45 Part I offenses reported in Shannon Hills for 2024, against a median of 21.0% across comparable Arkansas cities — a gap of 5.6 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 counts dominate Shannon Hills'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.
Based on 12 reported violent incidents in a population of 4,743. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
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.
Across 2.6 Census sq mi, Shannon Hills logged 12.5 property and 4.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Shannon Hills leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,625.
Violent offenses are 27% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Shannon Hills offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.6 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 | 33 | 695.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 23 | 484.9 |
| Burglary | 10 | 210.8 |
| Arson | 1 | 21.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 12 | 253 |
| Aggravated Assault | 10 | 210.8 |
| Rape | 2 | 42.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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 | 4,098 | 536.8 | 1586.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,196 | 619.6 | 1143.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 4,625 | 497.3 | 800 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,690 | 298.5 | 895.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,743 | 253 | 695.8 |
Shannon Hills Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Shannon Hills's 45 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 Shannon Hills in population. Their populations run from 4,283 to 5,141, against 4,743 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Shannon Hills sits at 253/100K violent (grade B); the Arkansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Shannon Hills reported 12 violent crimes and 33 property crimes, for a total of 45 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Shannon Hills's violent crime rate decreased by 15.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 22.3%.
The most common crime type in Shannon Hills is larceny-theft, accounting for 51.1% of all reported crimes (23 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Shannon Hills 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.
Small-city rate methodology for how Shannon Hills's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Shannon Hills, AR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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