Crittenden County, AR Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Crittenden County is home to 47,300 residents and includes West Memphis and Marion · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Crittenden County?
Crittenden County grades C for violent crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 88% of Americans live. Assaults make up 93% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury.
C
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 426 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
12% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Crittenden County as a whole, and 88% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Crittenden County scores 426.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in Crittenden County, AR at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Crittenden County, 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 about violent crime in Crittenden County
Aggravated assaults run high for a county with a C for violent crime. Crittenden County has 12.4 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a US county graded C for violent crime, the figure is 4.6.
Reported rapes run high. Crittenden County has reported rapes at about triple the US rate: 1.1 a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.38 nationally.
Where violent crime is lowest and highest in Crittenden County
Violent crime varies widely across Crittenden County: 33% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 43% in areas graded D or F. Violent crime grades across Crittenden County run from A to F.
33%24%43%
A or B 33%C 24%D or F 43%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Is violent crime going up in Crittenden County?
Reported violent crime in Crittenden County peaked in 2021 and has fallen 28% since, back near its 2019 level. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults stayed at about 15 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 12%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Crittenden CountyUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments across Crittenden County. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Crittenden County
Violent, US
2016
-4%
+4%
2017
-1%
+4%
2018
+1%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+27%
+4%
2021
+36%
+6%
2022
+23%
+5%
2023
+12%
+2%
2024
-2%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Crittenden County
CrimeGrade™ estimates Crittenden County has about 37 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and 83% more than Arkansas.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Crittenden County, about 93% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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 violent crime happens in Crittenden County
These figures come from the reports of the police departments across Crittenden County, 2022 to 2024.
In Crittenden County, 60% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often at stores and businesses: 32% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Stores and businesses (32%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Homes (60%)
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.
Violent crime in Crittenden County and nearby counties
Crittenden County has more violent crime than 9 of its 10 nearest counties. Tate County, MS and Fayette County, TN have the least violent crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Crittenden County. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with counties of similar size and density, Crittenden County has more violent crime than 99% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, one sets Crittenden County apart: it has 5% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report less robbery, yet robbery runs higher here than that would suggest.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.5% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 79% of Americans
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.34 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 78% of Americans
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Crittenden County: F (0 of 100).1 trips an hourUS: noneLower than for 60% of Americans
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 violent crime costs Crittenden County
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Crittenden County about $341 million a year, or $7,211 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $60 million, or $1,279 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How the cost breaks down
Pain and suffering are about 82% of that full cost.
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$31 million
$662
Rape
$3.2 million
$68
Robbery
$1.7 million
$35
Assault
$24 million
$513
Total
$60 million
$1,279
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
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.
