CrimeMetric

Crime in Brinkley, Arkansas

Major crime in Brinkley is 1.8 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.3 times for persons crimes and 1.7 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.7% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
178
1.8 times the U.S. rate
46% above the Arkansas rate
down 7.7% in a year
Persons crimes
231
2.3 times the U.S. rate
36% above the Arkansas rate
down 4.6% in a year
Property crimes
167
1.7 times the U.S. rate
49% above the Arkansas rate
down 8.6% in a year
Social disorder
311
3.1 times the U.S. rate
2.1 times the Arkansas rate
down 6.3% in a year

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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Crime by type

Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 4.1 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Brinkley for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Brinkley

Brinkley is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 170; the middle half of residents live where it is between 129 and 234.

Map of Brinkley, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–20073.8%
  • 200–40026.2%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekend daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm206
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am145
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm215
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am136
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.7% in a year; across Arkansas it fell 5.6%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.7%AR -5.6%-21.4%AR -11.6%
Persons crimes-4.6%AR -1.0%-9.7%AR +0.2%
Property crimes-8.6%AR -7.0%-25.0%AR -15.6%
Social disorder-6.3%AR -3.8%-15.9%AR -5.4%

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.

Similar-size places

Brinkley against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents

112 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Brinkley; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:

Lakeland, NY2,655257
Brinkley, AR2,654178
Antlers, OK2,656151
Ripley, WV2,66234

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Brinkley has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Forrest City (25 mi), is 22% above Brinkley's rate.

Forrest City25 mi218
Stuttgart34 mi186
Wynne33 mi183
Marianna28 mi181
Brinkley178
Searcy38 mi137
Bald Knob32 mi135
Beebe38 mi106
Lonoke38 mi102

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Brinkley

What are the most common crimes in Brinkley?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 39 a year), aggravated assault (about 14 a year) and burglary (about 11 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 4.1 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. Brinkley's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Brinkley 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: 2,654. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Brinkley, Arkansas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ar/brinkley

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100