Crime in Barling, Arkansas
Major crime in Barling is 21% below the U.S. rate per resident: 9% lower for persons crimes and 23% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.9% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 3.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Barling for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
Neighborhoods in Barling
Barling is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 87; the middle half of residents live where it is between 61 and 87.
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Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.9% in a year; across Arkansas it fell 5.6%
Change in expected crimes, with Arkansas as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Barling against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
800 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Barling; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Barling has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Fort Smith (5 mi), is 2.8 times Barling's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Barling
What are the most common crimes in Barling?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 45 a year), aggravated assault (about 11 a year) and burglary (about 7 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 3.1 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Barling's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Barling has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 5,627. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Barling, Arkansas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ar/barling
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