Texarkana, AR has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 823 per 100,000, 134% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Texarkana (29,173 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
Texarkana, AR carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 134% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Texarkana, AR shows violent crime at 822.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,575.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 134% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 822.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Texarkana ranks 24 of 204 — above 180 of the 203 other Arkansas cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +168.7% 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Texarkana's 822.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lonoke (840.5), Pangburn (803.2), Fort Smith (842.4), Magnolia (788.7). 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 941.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 822.7 in 2024 (-12.7%). The highest observed value was 998.7 in 2022 and the lowest 822.7 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 is 84.3% of reported property offenses in Texarkana, against a cohort median of 74.4%. The remainder is burglary (114) and motor vehicle theft (50). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Texarkana'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 42 Census sq mi, Texarkana logged 24.8 property and 5.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Texarkana's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 1,283 offenses; mix index 5,035).
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Texarkana offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (42 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 | 1,043 | 3575.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 879 | 3013.1 |
| Burglary | 114 | 390.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 50 | 171.4 |
| Arson | 1 | 3.4 |
| Violent Crime | 240 | 822.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 200 | 685.6 |
| Robbery | 22 | 75.4 |
| Rape | 14 | 48 |
| Murder | 4 | 13.7 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 29,622 | 941.9 | 3163.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 29,516 | 945.3 | 2913.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 29,339 | 998.7 | 3677.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 29,276 | 935.9 | 4023.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 29,173 | 822.7 | 3575.2 |
Texarkana Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Texarkana's 1,283 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 Texarkana in population. Their populations run from 24,446 to 33,223, against 29,173 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Texarkana sits at 822.7/100K violent (grade F); the Arkansas cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Texarkana at 822.7/100K violent and 3,575.2/100K property - matched below outside Arkansas (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
822.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
3,575.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-12.1% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Texarkana reported 240 violent crimes and 1,043 property crimes, for a total of 1,283 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Texarkana's violent crime rate decreased by 12.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.1%.
The most common crime type in Texarkana is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.5% of all reported crimes (879 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Texarkana 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 Texarkana's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Texarkana, 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. Texarkana is scored in the mid-size municipal band (29,173 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.