County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Hempstead County, AR
Hempstead County (20,065 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Arkansas. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Hempstead County, AR reported 234 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hempstead County, AR agencies reported 47 violent and 94 property offenses. That equals about 234 violent and 469 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
47 violent offenses
234/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Hempstead County, AR
Position in the state cohort
Hempstead County sits mid-pack among comparable Arkansas counties
At 234.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hempstead County ranks 19 of 71 — above 52 of the 70 other Arkansas counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +38.3% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 83.0% of reported property offenses in Hempstead County, against a cohort median of 63.2%. The remainder is burglary (11) and motor vehicle theft (5). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 204.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 234.2 in 2024 (+14.6%). The highest observed value was 234.2 in 2024 and the lowest 189.4 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 33.3% of the 141 Part I offenses reported in Hempstead County for 2024, against a median of 28.3% across comparable Arkansas counties — a gap of 5.0 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
94
Burglary
11
Larceny-Theft
78
Motor Vehicle Theft
5
Arson
1
Violent Crime
47
Murder
1
Rape
3
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
43
Reporting Agency
Hempstead County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Hempstead County's crime figures on this page originate from Hempstead 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
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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.