Crime Grade · FBI UCR Data · 2025
Mountain Home, AR Crime Grade
How Mountain Home grades for violent crime against every other reporting U.S. city — and against the rest of Arkansas — based on the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting data.
National
7/10
vs. all U.S. cities ≥ 25,000 population
Arkansas
3/10
vs. Arkansas cities ≥ 10,000 population
In 2025, the violent crime rate in Mountain Home, AR was 252.3 per 100,000 residents (34 incidents over a population of 13,478). That puts Mountain Home 22% below the U.S. rate of 325.3 and 53% below the Arkansas statewide rate of 541.9.
That ranks Mountain Home #2,386 of 3,771 ranked U.S. cities, safer than 37% of them, and #10 of 40 in Arkansas. Violent crime is down 13% year over year and up 14% over the last five years.
Mountain Home, AR crime — key facts
- National Crime Grade
- C (7/10)
- Arkansas Grade
- A (3/10)
- Violent crime rate
- 252.3 / 100k
- National rank
- #2,386 of 3,771
- AR rank
- #10 of 40
- Safer than
- 37% of U.S. cities
- Year over year
- down 13%
- 5-year change
- up 14%
- Population
- 13,478
- Reporting agency
- Mountain Home Police Department
- Data year
- 2025 · FBI UCR
Reported by Mountain Home Police Department (FBI ORI AR0030100) to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Download the full dataset (CSV) · methodology.
About Mountain Home, AR
Also known as
- Drake
Name history sourced from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) — public-domain federal geographic-names data.
Violent crime rate, 5-year trend
Per 100,000 residents. Mountain Home (red), Arkansas (blue), U.S. average (gray dashed).
Mountain Home vs. U.S., 2025 — by offense
Rates per 100,000 residents for each offense category.
Full data, last 5 years
Rates per 100,000 residents. Raw counts in parentheses.
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 221.2(28) | 326.3(43) | 278.0(37) | 290.5(39) | 252.3(34) |
| Murder | 0.0(0) | 15.2(2) | 0.0(0) | 7.4(1) | 7.4(1) |
| Rape | 110.6(14) | 91.0(12) | 112.7(15) | 67.0(9) | 66.8(9) |
| Robbery | 0.0(0) | 7.6(1) | 0.0(0) | 7.4(1) | 7.4(1) |
| Aggravated assault | 110.6(14) | 212.4(28) | 165.3(22) | 208.5(28) | 170.6(23) |
| Property crime | 2891.7(366) | 2936.3(387) | 2442.0(325) | 2353.5(316) | 2225.8(300) |
| Burglary | 268.6(34) | 288.3(38) | 120.2(16) | 245.8(33) | 222.6(30) |
| Larceny | 2488.7(315) | 2496.2(329) | 2186.5(291) | 2003.4(269) | 1906.8(257) |
| Motor vehicle theft | 134.3(17) | 151.7(20) | 127.7(17) | 81.9(11) | 81.6(11) |
How the Crime Grade is calculated
- What is the source of the Mountain Home, AR Crime Grade?
- FBI Uniform Crime Reporting via the Crime Data Explorer. Agency-level data, pulled directly. No third-party aggregators, no proprietary score.
- What metric does the Mountain Home Crime Grade use?
- Violent crime rate per 100,000 residents (murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault), most recent fully-reported year.
- How is the national decile for Mountain Home calculated?
- Mountain Home's rate placed against all FBI-reporting U.S. cities with population ≥ 25,000. 1 = safest.
- How is the Arkansas state decile calculated?
- Same calculation restricted to Arkansas cities with population ≥ 10,000.
- How do decile scores convert to a letter grade?
- 1–3 = A · 4–5 = B · 6–7 = C · 8 = D · 9–10 = F.
- How often is the Mountain Home Crime Grade refreshed?
- Twice a year. The FBI typically releases the prior year's full data each September.
- What are the limits of this Crime Grade?
- The FBI relies on local agency reporting. Rates reflect what was reported, not what occurred.
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