College Station is a city of 256 in Pulaski County, about 4 miles southeast of downtown Little Rock · Updated November 2026
Is College Station, AR safe?
College Station has more crime than most of the country: an overall CrimeGrade™ of C, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 86% of Americans live. Property crime grades better than violent crime here, B- against D+.
C
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 396 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
14% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than College Station as a whole, and 86% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. College Station scores 396.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in College Station, AR at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in College Station, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in College Station
Acts of vandalism run high for a C-graded city. College Station has 43.0 acts of vandalism a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a C-graded US city, the figure is 6.2.
Thefts and simple assaults both run high. In College Station, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 80.7 thefts and 81.2 simple assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 13.1 and 9.7 nationally.
Crime rates and types in College Station
CrimeGrade™ estimates College Station has about 288 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than triple the rate for the US as a whole and more than triple the rate for Arkansas.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
The largest share of crime reported in College Station is assault, about 41% of the total. It also makes up the largest share of what crime costs here.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when crime happens in College Station
The Little Rock Police Department polices College Station; these figures cover Little Rock as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Little Rock as a whole, 55% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 40% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (55%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Car theft
Homes (39%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (40%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (50%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (42%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (56%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How College Station compares with nearby cities
College Station has more crime than 7 of its 10 nearest cities. Estes and Toltec have the least crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from College Station. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with cities of similar size and density, College Station has more crime than 99% of them.
Crime costs College Station about $9,056 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, more than triple the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $4.0 million a year, or $15,446 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$250,000
$966
Rape
$41,000
$159
Robbery
$33,000
$128
Assault
$420,000
$1,622
Burglary
$50,000
$194
Theft
$110,000
$414
Vehicle theft
$63,000
$244
Arson
$12,000
$48
Vandalism
$78,000
$305
Total
$1.0 million
$4,081
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in College Station means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in College Station, AR average a SchoolGrade of F: 16% of students test proficient, against 21% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in College Station on SchoolGrade
