Photo: Thomas R Machnitzki ([email protected]) · CC BY 3.0Per resident, Paragould records more crime than 95% of U.S. towns
Per resident, the graded crimes were down 38% from 2023 to 2025. Violent crime here is higher than in 96% of U.S. towns; property crime, higher than in 91%. It grades D for safety on crimes Paragould’s police reported from 2023 to 2025: #86 of 105 graded towns in Arkansas. Behind the grade sit 8.1 violent crimes and 30.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 6.8 and 24.6 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 Paragould
Among Arkansas towns, closer to the middle
Arkansas’ cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Paragould’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 falling
Crime reported per resident fell 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 Paragould’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 | Paragould property | Rest of Arkansas property | Paragould violent | Rest of Arkansas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 38.0 | 31.2 | 11.4 | 7.7 |
| 2023 | 36.3 | 28.7 | 12.6 | 7.4 |
| 2024 | 29.0 | 24.7 | 9.2 | 6.8 |
| 2025 | 27.5 | 20.4 | 2.7 | 6.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell 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 | Paragould | Rest of Arkansas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 11.4 | 7.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 12.6 | 7.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 9.2 | 6.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.7 | 6.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Paragould’s police reported 749 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 8.1 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 Paragould 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.
934 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.
83 violent and 851 property, as reported to the FBI by Paragould’s police.
16 people died in crashes on Paragould’s roads in 2019–2023
Paragould had 15 fatal crashes in five years, in which 16 people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is 10.6 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for Arkansas towns of 25,000–100,000 people (9.8, 18 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.
Paragould and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paragould | D | 8.1 | 30.9 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Arkansas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paragould | D | 8.1 | 30.9 |
| Bella Vista | B+ | 1.7 | 4.1 |
| Russellville | C− | 4.5 | 16.3 |
| Sherwood | D | 6.0 | 20.6 |
| Texarkana | D− | 9.9 | 34.4 |
| Jacksonville | D− | 10.1 | 38.2 |
The five graded Arkansas towns closest to Paragould’s population (31,135), 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 Paragould. 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 Paragould’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (30,940 in 2025); our figure for Paragould is 31,135 (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 Paragould
Is Paragould, AR safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Paragould reports more crime per resident than 95% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #86 of 105 in Arkansas. Its police reported 8.1 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 Paragould?
8.1 violent and 30.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Arkansas reports 6.8 and 24.6; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Paragould in 2025?
Paragould’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Paragould?
Paragould’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Paragould”. 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.