Photo: ArkansasNationalist · CC BY-SA 4.0Cave Springs records less crime per resident than nine in ten U.S. towns
Violence and property crime split as 0.7 violent crime and 2.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 6.9 and 24.7 in the rest of Arkansas. It has less violent crime than 78% of U.S. towns, and less property crime than 93%. Its Safety Grade is A, on crimes Cave Springs’ police reported from 2023 to 2025: #1 of 105 graded towns in Arkansas.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of AR” is every other Arkansas city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Cave Springs
Cave Springs reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 4 Arkansas towns on Cave Springs’ borders, 4 have a Safety Grade: Lowell (B), Bentonville (B−), Rogers (C), Springdale (C−). Neighbors ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Cave Springs’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are lower than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Cave Springs | Rest of Arkansas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.1 | 7.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.3 | 7.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.0 | 6.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.8 | 6.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Cave Springs’ police reported 13 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 6.9 in the rest of Arkansas and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Cave Springs per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Cave Springs property | Rest of Arkansas property | Cave Springs violent | Rest of Arkansas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.6 | 31.4 | 1.1 | 7.8 |
| 2023 | 3.0 | 28.9 | 0.3 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 2.6 | 24.8 | 1.0 | 6.9 |
| 2025 | 2.2 | 20.6 | 0.8 | 6.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Arkansas.
19 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
5 violent and 14 property, as reported to the FBI by Cave Springs’ police.
Two people died in crashes on Cave Springs’s roads in 2019–2023
Cave Springs had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people died.
That is about what is typical for Arkansas towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (10.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Cave Springs’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Cave Springs’s own rate (6.7) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Cave Springs and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cave Springs | A | 0.7 | 2.6 |
| Rogers | C | 3.2 | 13.1 |
| Springdale | C− | 5.2 | 19.7 |
| Bentonville | B− | 2.2 | 8.7 |
| Lowell | B | 2.3 | 6.2 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Arkansas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cave Springs | A | 0.7 | 2.6 |
| De Queen | C | 2.5 | 17.4 |
| Ward | C | 4.7 | 10.8 |
| Heber Springs | C | 3.1 | 17.1 |
| Alma | C | 4.2 | 13.7 |
| Morrilton | D | 4.6 | 32.7 |
The five graded Arkansas towns closest to Cave Springs’ population (6,701), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Cave Springs. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Cave Springs’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (6,491 in 2025); our figure for Cave Springs is 6,701 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Cave Springs
Is Cave Springs, AR safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Cave Springs reports less crime per resident than 91% of U.S. towns, an A Safety Grade and #1 of 105 in Arkansas. Its police reported 0.7 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 6.9 in the rest of Arkansas and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Cave Springs?
0.7 violent and 2.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Arkansas reports 6.9 and 24.7; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is Cave Springs safer than Rogers?
Rogers reports more crime per resident than Cave Springs: Rogers grades C for safety and Cave Springs A. Rogers’s police reported 3.2 violent and 13.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Cave Springs?
Cave Springs’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Cave Springs”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.