Crime in Little Rock, Arkansas
Major crime in Little Rock is 3.2 times the U.S. rate per resident: 4.7 times for persons crimes and 2.9 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are about flat 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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Intimidation stands out most, at 5.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Little Rock 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
How crime varies across Little Rock
The middle half of Little Rock residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 135 and 394; the typical (median) resident's is 236. The citywide figure (323) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–502.0%
- 50–10013.8%
- 100–20023.1%
- 200–40036.2%
- 400+24.9%
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 rose 0.8% 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.
Little Rock against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
2 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Little Rock; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Little Rock has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, North Little Rock (8 mi), is 13% below Little Rock's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Little Rock
What are the most common crimes in Little Rock?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 3,606 a year), aggravated assault (about 2,443 a year) and shoplifting (about 1,908 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 5.8 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. Little Rock's figures add up its 145 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Little Rock has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 89.1% 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: 208,696. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Little Rock, Arkansas." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ar/little-rock
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100