Crime rates for Bentonville, AR

The crime rate in Bentonville is considerably higher than the national average across all communities in America from the largest to the smallest, although at 57 crimes per one thousand residents, it is not among the communities with the very highest crime rate. The chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime in Bentonville is 1 in 18. Based on FBI crime data, Bentonville is not one of the safest communities in America. Relative to Arkansas, Bentonville has a crime rate that is higher than 80% of the state's cities and towns of all sizes.

Separately, it is always interesting and important to compare a city's crime rate with those of similarly sized communities - a fair comparison as larger cities tend to have more crime. NeighborhoodScout has done just that. With a population of 19,752, Bentonville has a combined rate of violent and property crime that is very high compared to other places of similar population size. Regardless of whether Bentonville does well or poorly compared to all other cities and towns in the US of all sizes, compared to places with a similar population, it fares badly. Few other communities of this size have a crime rate as high as Bentonville.

The crime data that NeighborhoodScout used for this analysis are the seven offenses from the uniform crime reports, collected by the FBI from 17,000 local law enforcement agencies, and include both violent and property crimes, combined.

Now let us turn to take a look at how Bentonville does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Bentonville.

From our analysis, we discovered that violent crime in Bentonville occurs at a rate higher than in most communities of all population sizes in America. The chance that a person will become a victim of a violent crime in Bentonville – such as armed robbery, aggravated assault, rape or murder – is 1 in 263. This equates to a rate of 4 per one thousand inhabitants.

Significantly, based on the number of murders reported by the FBI and the number of residents living in the city, NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that Bentonville experiences one of the higher murder rates in the nation when compared with cities and towns for all sizes of population, from the largest to the smallest.

In addition, NeighborhoodScout found that a lot of the crime that takes place in Bentonville is property crime. Property crimes that are tracked for this analysis are burglary, larceny over fifty dollars, motor vehicle theft, and arson. In Bentonville, your chance of becoming a victim of a property crime is one in 19, which is a rate of 53 per one thousand population.