Fayetteville, AR crime rate
In 2025 the Fayetteville Police Department reported 447.1 violent crimes and 1,911.0 property crimes per 100,000 residents it covers. The FBI's estimates for Arkansas and the US for the same year are beside each number.
Data as of 2025 (FBI), checked October 30, 2026. How we got these numbers
Data notes.
- Murder, 2022: unusual change, check the source. 2021: 5, 2022: 2, 2023: 5 (under 60% of both neighbouring years). Changes to and from 2022 are not shown.
How does Fayetteville compare with Arkansas and the US?
Arson has no FBI state or US estimate, so its row shows Fayetteville only.
What offenses were reported in Fayetteville, 2025?
| Offense | Reported | Per 100k | Arkansas | US | vs 2024 | vs 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | ||||||
| Violent crime | 471 | 447.1 | 531.8 | 327.6 | up 3.9% | down 28.5% |
| Murder | 2 | 1.9 | 6.3 | 4.1 | down 75.3% | down 65.5% |
| Rape | 61 | 57.9 | 69.3 | 36.1 | down 1.2% | down 27.5% |
| Robbery | 29 | 27.5 | 30.9 | 49.4 | up 2.2% | down 62.0% |
| Aggravated assault | 379 | 359.8 | 425.3 | 238.0 | up 6.7% | down 23.1% |
| Property crime | ||||||
| Property crime | 2,013 | 1,911.0 | 1,644.9 | 1,534.8 | down 20.1% | down 60.7% |
| Burglary | 165 | 156.6 | 281.2 | 193.6 | down 31.5% | down 62.3% |
| Larceny-theft | 1,630 | 1,547.4 | 1,222.5 | 1,144.1 | down 21.2% | down 59.1% |
| Motor vehicle theft | 212 | 201.3 | 141.3 | 197.0 | up 1.7% | down 69.3% |
| Arson | 6 | 5.7 | Not estimated | Not estimated | up 200.0% | down 35.2% |
Reported = offenses known to the Fayetteville Police Department and sent to the FBI. Arkansas and US are FBI estimates for the same year. Changes compare rates of full years only.
Violent crime rate, 2021 to 2025
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| Year | Fayetteville | United States | Arkansas |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 625.3 | 387.0 | 702.4 |
| 2022 | 518.4 | 388.7 | 653.2 |
| 2023 | 428.0 | 379.5 | 623.3 |
| 2024 | 430.4 | 362.9 | 586.8 |
| 2025 | 447.1 | 327.6 | 531.8 |
Property crime rate, 2021 to 2025
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| Year | Fayetteville | United States | Arkansas |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4,861.5 | 1,832.3 | 2,529.0 |
| 2022 | 4,054.7 | 1,973.8 | 2,468.3 |
| 2023 | 3,237.4 | 1,934.1 | 2,236.7 |
| 2024 | 2,392.2 | 1,761.1 | 1,945.2 |
| 2025 | 1,911.0 | 1,534.8 | 1,644.9 |
Is Fayetteville safe?
We don't rate cities as safe or unsafe. What the FBI's numbers show: in 2025 the violent crime rate the Fayetteville Police Department reported, 447.1 per 100,000 residents, was lower than Arkansas's 531.8, and higher than the US rate of 327.6 (FBI estimates). It rose 3.9% from 2024.
What these numbers can't tell you:
- How crime differs between neighborhoods (the FBI publishes agency totals only).
- Crimes nobody reported to the police.
- How many offenses involved visitors and commuters, who are not in the population count.
Fayetteville's violent crime rate for 2025 was 447.1 per 100,000 residents covered by the Fayetteville Police Department, based on 471 offenses reported to the FBI. That was 0.8 times the Arkansas estimate of 531.8, and 1.4 times the US rate of 327.6. Property crime, at 1,911.0 per 100,000, was 1.2 times both the state figure of 1,644.9 and the national 1,534.8.
The property rate has fallen 60.7% since 2021, when it was 4,861.5, and 20.1% from 2024. Over the same years the Arkansas property estimate went from 2,529.0 to 1,644.9. Motor vehicle theft fell the most of the property offenses from 2021 to 2025, 69.3%, and larceny-theft, 81% of the property total, fell 59.1%.
Burglary had the largest fall of the property offenses from 2024 to 2025, 31.5%. Violent crime is down 28.5% from its 2021 rate of 625.3. From 2024 to 2025 violent crime rose 3.9%.
Robbery fell 62.0% from 2021, and aggravated assault, 80% of violent crime, fell 23.1%. The 2022 murder count is flagged as an unusual change and is not compared; in 2025 there were 2 homicides, a rate of 1.9 per 100,000. All 12 months were sent for each of the 5 years shown, with NIBRS reporting since 2003.
Cases handled by the Washington County Sheriff's Office and University of Arkansas police are reported separately and not included.
Written from the numbers on this page. Every figure and every comparison is checked against the stored FBI data before publishing.
Police employees, 2025: 1.95 per 1,000 residents (152 officers, 53 civilians), FBI Crime Data Explorer. Shown as context, not as a measure of crime.
Other Arkansas cities
The nearest Arkansas cities with a page, in alphabetical order. VC = violent crime per 100,000, 2025.
Sources
- FBI Crime Data Explorer, Fayetteville Police Department (ORI AR0720100), offenses known to law enforcement and police employees, 2021 to 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026. Crime Data Explorer
- FBI Crime Data Explorer, Arkansas and United States estimated crime (Summary Reporting System estimates), 2021 to 2025.
- FBI, "UCR Statistics: Their Proper Use" (why we don't rank cities).
Every stored file behind this page (11)
- Fayetteville Police Department (AR0720100): violent crime, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AR0720100_violent_crime__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Fayetteville Police Department (AR0720100): murder, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AR0720100_homicide__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Fayetteville Police Department (AR0720100): rape, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AR0720100_rape__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Fayetteville Police Department (AR0720100): robbery, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AR0720100_robbery__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Fayetteville Police Department (AR0720100): aggravated assault, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AR0720100_aggravated_assault__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Fayetteville Police Department (AR0720100): property crime, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AR0720100_property_crime__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Fayetteville Police Department (AR0720100): burglary, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AR0720100_burglary__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Fayetteville Police Department (AR0720100): larceny-theft, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AR0720100_larceny__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Fayetteville Police Department (AR0720100): motor vehicle theft, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AR0720100_motor_vehicle_theft__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Fayetteville Police Department (AR0720100): arson, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AR0720100_arson__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Fayetteville Police Department (AR0720100): police employees, 2021 to 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/pe_agency_AR0720100__from-2021-to-2025.json)