Photo: Brandonrush · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Siloam Springs records more violent crime than 86% of U.S. towns
Out of every 1,000 residents, 4.5 violent crimes and 14.0 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 6.9 and 24.8 in the rest of Arkansas. Overall, Siloam Springs grades C− for safety (#51 of 105 graded towns in Arkansas): more crime per resident than 76% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Still, the graded rate fell 45% from 2023 to 2025.
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 Siloam Springs
Among Arkansas towns, closer to the middle
Arkansas’ cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Siloam Springs’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 51% of the 105 Arkansas towns we grade, against 24% 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 Siloam 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 higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its property rate (14.0) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Siloam Springs property | Rest of Arkansas property | Siloam Springs violent | Rest of Arkansas violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 22.5 | 31.4 | 5.7 | 7.8 |
| 2023 | 19.8 | 28.9 | 4.4 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 13.6 | 24.9 | 5.0 | 6.9 |
| 2025 | 9.1 | 20.6 | 4.3 | 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.
Crime in Siloam 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 4 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 | Siloam Springs | Rest of Arkansas | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.7 | 7.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 4.4 | 7.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 5.0 | 6.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 4.3 | 6.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Siloam Springs’ police reported 272 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 4.5 per 1,000 residents a year, against 6.9 in the rest of Arkansas and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
278 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.
89 violent and 189 property, as reported to the FBI by Siloam Springs’ police.
10 people died in crashes on Siloam Springs’s roads in 2019–2023
Siloam Springs had 9 fatal crashes in five years, in which 10 people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is 10.7 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as 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.
Siloam Springs and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Siloam Springs | C− | 4.5 | 14.0 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Arkansas towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Siloam Springs | C− | 4.5 | 14.0 |
| Maumelle | B− | 2.2 | 10.1 |
| Bryant | C | 1.5 | 21.2 |
| Van Buren | C− | 3.4 | 23.1 |
| Searcy | D | 4.4 | 25.5 |
| West Memphis | D− | 20.6 | 43.5 |
The five graded Arkansas towns closest to Siloam Springs’ population (21,298), 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 Siloam 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 Siloam Springs’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (20,770 in 2025); our figure for Siloam Springs is 21,298 (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 Siloam Springs
Is Siloam Springs, AR safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Siloam Springs reports more crime per resident than 76% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #51 of 105 in Arkansas. Its police reported 4.5 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 Siloam Springs?
4.5 violent and 14.0 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Arkansas reports 6.9 and 24.8; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Siloam Springs?
Siloam Springs’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Siloam 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.