Mountain Home Commercial Historic District · Photo: JenBaker1951 · CC BY-SA 3.0More property crime is recorded per resident in Mountain Home than in 82% of U.S. towns
Its Safety Grade is C−, on crimes Mountain Home’s police reported from 2023 to 2025: #52 of 105 graded towns in Arkansas. Still, the local count comes to 2.7 violent crimes and 23.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 6.9 and 24.7 in the rest of 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 Mountain Home
Among Arkansas towns, closer to the middle
Arkansas’ cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Mountain Home’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 50% of the 105 Arkansas towns we grade, against 22% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Mountain Home has 11,776 jobs based in town for 13,373 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Mountain Home’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; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (2.7) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Crime in Mountain Home 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 3 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Mountain Home | Rest of Arkansas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.1 | 7.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.6 | 7.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.8 | 6.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.7 | 6.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Mountain Home’s police reported 109 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 6.9 in the rest of Arkansas and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Mountain Home property | Rest of Arkansas property | Mountain Home violent | Rest of Arkansas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 28.8 | 31.3 | 3.1 | 7.8 |
| 2023 | 24.1 | 28.9 | 2.6 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 22.6 | 24.8 | 2.8 | 6.9 |
| 2025 | 22.3 | 20.5 | 2.7 | 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.
338 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.
37 violent and 301 property, as reported to the FBI by Mountain Home’s police.
11 people died in crashes on Mountain Home’s roads in 2019–2023
Mountain Home had 11 fatal crashes in five years, in which 11 people died; 2 were pedestrians.
That is 16.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Arkansas towns of 5,000–25,000 people (10.1, 52 towns).
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.
Mountain Home and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Home | C− | 2.7 | 23.0 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Arkansas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Home | C− | 2.7 | 23.0 |
| Lowell | B | 2.3 | 6.2 |
| Harrison | C | 3.1 | 16.9 |
| Marion | D | 6.6 | 21.3 |
| Forrest City | D− | 14.6 | 31.2 |
| Blytheville | D− | 10.8 | 39.0 |
The five graded Arkansas towns closest to Mountain Home’s population (13,373), 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 Mountain Home. 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 Mountain Home’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (13,478 in 2025); our figure for Mountain Home is 13,373 (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 Mountain Home
Is Mountain Home, AR safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Mountain Home reports more crime per resident than 78% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #52 of 105 in Arkansas. Its police reported 2.7 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 Mountain Home?
2.7 violent and 23.0 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.
Who polices Mountain Home?
Mountain Home’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Mountain Home”. 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.