Photo: Brandonrush · CC BY-SA 4.0Marianna has more crime per resident than 95% of U.S. towns
Its police logs show 10.6 violent crimes and 22.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the rest of Arkansas the numbers are 6.8 and 24.7. It grades D for safety on crimes Marianna’s police reported from 2023 to 2025: #86 of 105 graded towns in Arkansas. The crimes the grade counts rose 30% per resident from 2023 to 2025. Violent crime here is higher than in 98% of U.S. towns; property crime, higher than in 82%.
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 Marianna
Among Arkansas towns, closer to the middle
Arkansas’ cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Marianna’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 18% of the 105 Arkansas towns we grade, against 5% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Reported crime is rising
Crime reported per resident rose from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Marianna’s 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 higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Marianna property | Rest of Arkansas property | Marianna violent | Rest of Arkansas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 32.2 | 31.3 | 6.6 | 7.8 |
| 2023 | 20.1 | 28.9 | 3.5 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 27.1 | 24.8 | 18.2 | 6.9 |
| 2025 | 20.4 | 20.5 | 10.3 | 6.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident rose from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Arkansas.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Marianna | Rest of Arkansas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6.6 | 7.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 3.5 | 7.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 18.2 | 6.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 10.3 | 6.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Marianna’s police reported 104 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 10.6 per 1,000 residents a year, against 6.8 in the rest of Arkansas and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Marianna 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 10 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
98 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.
33 violent and 65 property, as reported to the FBI by Marianna’s police.
Two people died in crashes on Marianna’s roads in 2019–2023
Marianna had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which two people died.
That is about what is typical for Arkansas towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (6.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Marianna’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Marianna’s own rate (11.7) 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.
Marianna and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marianna | D | 10.6 | 22.5 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Arkansas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marianna | D | 10.6 | 22.5 |
| Pottsville | A | 0.9 | 3.2 |
| Green Forest | C | 5.6 | 5.8 |
| Waldron | C− | 4.1 | 25.6 |
| Paris | D | 8.7 | 22.5 |
| Fordyce | D− | 10.0 | 28.6 |
The five graded Arkansas towns closest to Marianna’s population (3,253), 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 Marianna. 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 Marianna’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (3,192 in 2025); our figure for Marianna is 3,253 (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 Marianna
Is Marianna, AR safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Marianna reports more crime per resident than 95% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #86 of 105 in Arkansas. Its police reported 10.6 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 6.8 in the rest of Arkansas and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Marianna?
10.6 violent and 22.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Arkansas reports 6.8 and 24.7; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Marianna?
Marianna’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Marianna”. 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.