County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Craighead County, AR
At 111,231 residents, Craighead County is a large county in Arkansas. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Craighead County, AR reported 49 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Craighead County, AR agencies reported 54 violent and 147 property offenses. That equals about 49 violent and 132 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
54 violent offenses
49/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Craighead County, AR
Position in the state cohort
Craighead County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Arkansas counties
At 48.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Craighead County ranks 67 of 71 — above 4 of the 70 other Arkansas counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -71.9% 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 close to where it started
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 49.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 48.5 in 2024 (-1.8%). The highest observed value was 67.4 in 2022 and the lowest 46.7 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
147
Burglary
29
Larceny-Theft
99
Motor Vehicle Theft
19
Arson
2
Violent Crime
54
Murder
1
Rape
18
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
34
Reporting Agency
Craighead County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Craighead County's crime figures on this page originate from Craighead 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 Craighead County in population. Their populations run from 76,822 to 127,799, against 111,231 here. Or launch the
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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.