Artificial shrub planting helps prevent wind erosion and sand encroachment, beneficial for ecological restoration efforts. However, varying shrub planting patterns exert distinct impacts on ground-active arthropod populations. Two planting arrangements of the Caragana koraiensis shrub-belt and point-were selected to reveal the impacts of ground-active arthropods on community composition, diversity, and functional group structure by the trap trapping method. The results showed that: (1) the richness of the dominant group in May and July was significantly reduced in the belt than in the point (P < 0.05), while the individual number and group richness of the common group in May and October was significantly higher in the belt than in the point (P < 0.05), the individual number and group richness of the rare group in July and October was significantly higher in the belt than in the point (P < 0.05). (2) In October the individual number of ground-active arthropods was significantly higher in the belt than in the point, the group richness in May, July and October was significantly higher in the belt than in the point (P < 0.05), the Shannon-Wienner diversity index in May and October was significantly higher in the belt than in the point (P < 0.01), while the Simpson dominance index in May was significantly lower in the belt than in the point (P < 0.01). (3) The Individual number of predatory in May and July was significantly lower in the belt than in the point (P < 0.05) the Individual number of phytophagous in May and July was significantly higher in the belt than in the point (P < 0.05). In October, the individual number of omnivorous was significantly higher in the belt than in the point (P < 0.05), the Individual number of other feeding habits (saprozoic, parasitic, and fungivorous) in May were significantly higher in the belt than in the point (P < 0.05). The group richness of predatory in May was significantly lower in the belt than in the point (P < 0.01), the group richness of phytophagous in May, July and October was significantly higher in the belt than in the point (P < 0.001), the group richness of omnivorous in May and October was significantly higher in the belt than in the point (P < 0.01), in July was significantly lower than that in point (P < 0.01), the group richness of other feeding habits (saprozoic, parasitic, and fungivorous) in May were significantly higher in the belt than in the point (P < 0.05). (4) Soil bulk density, soil pH, and herbaceous plant richness are the primary environmental factors influencing the distributional disparities in ground-active arthropod community structures across various shrub forest arrangements. In conclusion, comprehensive analysis shows that the belt arranged shrubs are more suitable for the survival and settlement of ground-active arthropods to maintain the relative stability of the food web structure and system of ground-active arthropods.