County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Crittenden County, AR
Crittenden County (48,163 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Arkansas. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Crittenden County, AR reported 280 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Crittenden County, AR agencies reported 135 violent and 216 property offenses. That equals about 280 violent and 449 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
135 violent offenses
280/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Crittenden County, AR
Position in the state cohort
Crittenden County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Arkansas counties
At 280.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Crittenden County ranks 10 of 71 — above 61 of the 70 other Arkansas counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +65.5% against the cohort median of 169.3. Counties 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 38.5% of the 351 Part I offenses reported in Crittenden County for 2024, against a median of 28.3% across comparable Arkansas counties — a gap of 10.1 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 328.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 280.3 in 2024 (-14.6%). The highest observed value was 390.3 in 2021 and the lowest 278.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
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
216
Burglary
44
Larceny-Theft
137
Motor Vehicle Theft
35
Arson
2
Violent Crime
135
Murder
0
Rape
17
Robbery
4
Aggravated Assault
114
Reporting Agency
Crittenden County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Crittenden County's crime figures on this page originate from Crittenden 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 Crittenden County in population. Their populations run from 39,054 to 45,736, against 48,163 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.