The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Pine Bluff, AR
Pine Bluff is the tenth-largest city in Arkansas, with 41,800 residents in Jefferson County, about 40 miles south of downtown Little Rock · Updated November 2026
Is Pine Bluff, AR safe?
Crime in Pine Bluff is high by national standards, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of C. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 85% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Pine Bluff. Property crime grades better than violent crime here, B against D+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Pine Bluff run from A+ to F, so check the map below.
C
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 427 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
15% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Pine Bluff as a whole, and 85% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Pine Bluff scores 427.
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 Pine Bluff, AR at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Pine Bluff, 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 Pine Bluff
Aggravated assault stands out among C-graded cities. For the typical resident of a C-graded US city, the figure is 4.1 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents; Pine Bluff has 11.8.
Burglaries and acts of vandalism both run high. In Pine Bluff, each runs at about triple the US rate: 8.1 burglaries and 17.0 acts of vandalism a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.4 and 5.5 nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Pine Bluff
Crime varies widely across Pine Bluff: 37% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 55% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Pine Bluff run from A+ to F; 17% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
37%55%
A or B 37%C 8%D or F 55%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Pine Bluff, the southwest side has the least crime and the center the most.
Is crime going up in Pine Bluff?
Reported violent crime in Pine Bluff peaked in 2021 and has fallen 22% since, back near its 2019 level. Property crime is down 24% from 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults stayed at about 16 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 59 to 45 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
Pine BluffUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Pine Bluff. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Pine Bluff
Violent, US
Property, Pine Bluff
Property, US
2016
+4%
+4%
+7%
+15%
2017
+19%
+4%
-7%
+12%
2018
+4%
+0%
-9%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+17%
+4%
-18%
-8%
2021
+30%
+6%
-2%
-10%
2022
+5%
+5%
-13%
-6%
2023
+7%
+2%
-18%
-7%
2024
+1%
-4%
-24%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Pine Bluff
CrimeGrade™ estimates Pine Bluff has about 96 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and about double 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.
Assault is the most common crime in Pine Bluff, about 40% of everything reported.
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 Pine Bluff
Pine Bluff has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Pine Bluff, 66% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at stores and businesses: 47% of them, against 10% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (66%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Car theft
Homes (60%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Stores and businesses (47%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (69%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (32%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (62%)
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 Pine Bluff compares with nearby cities
Pine Bluff has the most crime of its 1 nearest cities.
Empty homes, parking lots and walkability in Pine Bluff
Two things set Pine Bluff apart: it has 20.7% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 4.3 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places like that tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson, and they run high here.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.20.7% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 99% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.4.3 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 95% of US city residents
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 88% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (13 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 67% of US city residents
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Pine Bluff: F (0 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% of US city residents
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.79% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 72% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.8% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 65% of US city residents
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Pine Bluff
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Pine Bluff about $3,826 a year per household, about 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 $276 million a year, or $6,612 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$23 million
$561
Rape
$1.2 million
$28
Robbery
$1.0 million
$25
Assault
$22 million
$528
Burglary
$3.1 million
$73
Theft
$5.4 million
$130
Vehicle theft
$3.4 million
$82
Arson
$500,000
$12
Vandalism
$5.0 million
$121
Total
$65 million
$1,560
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 Pine Bluff 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 Pine Bluff, AR average a SchoolGrade of D-: 23% of students test proficient, against 23% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Pine Bluff on SchoolGrade
