Atoka, TN has a A safety grade (78/100) with a violent crime rate of 176 per 100,000, 50% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Atoka (10,777 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then TN and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Atoka, TN carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 50% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Atoka, TN shows violent crime at 176.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 519.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 50% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 62.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 176.3 in 2024 (+183.0%). The highest observed value was 193.3 in 2022 and the lowest 62.3 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Atoka reported 19 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 10,777. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Atoka's 176.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Medina (176.9), Dunlap (167.8), Germantown (167.8), Watertown (185.0). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
At 176.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Atoka ranks 116 of 176 — above 60 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -41.8% against the cohort median of 302.8. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 25.3% of the 75 Part I offenses reported in Atoka for 2024, against a median of 18.7% across comparable Tennessee cities — a gap of 6.6 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 64.3% of reported property offenses in Atoka, against a cohort median of 77.1%. The remainder is burglary (6) and motor vehicle theft (14). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Atoka's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 19 reported violent incidents in a population of 10,777. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 12.1 Census sq mi, Atoka logged 4.6 property and 1.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Atoka leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,358.
Violent offenses are 25% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Atoka offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (12.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 56 | 519.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 36 | 334 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 14 | 129.9 |
| Burglary | 6 | 55.7 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 19 | 176.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 19 | 176.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 9,632 | 62.3 | 768.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 9,859 | 182.6 | 730.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,345 | 193.3 | 493 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 10,673 | 121.8 | 580.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 10,777 | 176.3 | 519.6 |
Atoka Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Atoka's 75 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Tennessee cities closest to Atoka in population. Their populations run from 10,177 to 11,599, against 10,777 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Atoka sits at 176.3/100K violent (grade A); the Tennessee cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Atoka at 176.3/100K violent and 519.6/100K property - matched below outside Tennessee (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
176.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
519.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Atoka reported 19 violent crimes and 56 property crimes, for a total of 75 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Atoka's violent crime rate increased by 44.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 10.6%.
The most common crime type in Atoka is larceny-theft, accounting for 48.0% of all reported crimes (36 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Atoka figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Atoka's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Atoka, TN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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