County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Baxter County, AR
Baxter County (41,627 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Arkansas. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Baxter County, AR reported 96 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Baxter County, AR agencies reported 40 violent and 143 property offenses. That equals about 96 violent and 344 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
40 violent offenses
96/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Baxter County, AR
Position in the state cohort
Baxter County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Arkansas counties
At 96.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Baxter County ranks 57 of 71 — above 14 of the 70 other Arkansas counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -44.4% against the cohort median of 172.9. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 158.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 96.1 in 2024 (-39.4%). The highest observed value was 158.6 in 2020 and the lowest 93.7 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 21.9% of the 183 Part I offenses reported in Baxter County for 2024, against a median of 28.4% across comparable Arkansas counties — a gap of 6.5 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.
Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
143
Burglary
34
Larceny-Theft
91
Motor Vehicle Theft
18
Arson
3
Violent Crime
40
Murder
0
Rape
7
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
32
Reporting Agency
Baxter County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Baxter County's crime figures on this page originate from Baxter County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Counties in Arkansas
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Arkansas counties closest to Baxter County in population. Their populations run from 37,938 to 45,736, against 41,627 here. Or launch the
side-by-side compare tool
to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.
County Table 10 totals are voluntary agency filings: incomplete coverage is not a county crime measure, and a countywide figure is not a neighbourhood verdict.