Brownsville, TN is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 194% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Brownsville, TN shows violent crime at 1,036.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,504.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 194% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
1036.3/100K violent
2504.3/100K property
+194% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Brownsville, TN
Position in the state cohort
Brownsville reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Tennessee cities
At 1036.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Brownsville ranks 9 of 176 — above 167 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +247.3% against the cohort median of 298.4. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
Brownsville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Tennessee cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Brownsville's 1036.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Tellico Plains (1024.3), Covington (1112.8), Jackson (950.4), Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (1124.1). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 29.3% of the 328 Part I offenses reported in Brownsville for 2024, against a median of 18.7% across comparable Tennessee cities — a gap of 10.5 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1413.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1036.3 in 2024 (-26.7%). The highest observed value was 1413.3 in 2020 and the lowest 1017.5 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Brownsville'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Brownsville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 9.9 Census sq mi, Brownsville logged 23.5 property and 9.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Brownsville leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,432.
Violent offenses are 29% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.9 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-13.5%
2893.5 → 2504.3/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+1.8%
1017.5 → 1036.3/100K
Property offenses lead Brownsville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
232
2504.3
1711
Larceny-Theft
166
1791.9
-
Burglary
53
572.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
13
140.3
-
Arson
1
10.8
-
Violent Crime
96
1036.3
352
Aggravated Assault
79
852.8
-
Rape
9
97.2
-
Robbery
8
86.4
-
Murder
0
0
-
Brownsville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Brownsville property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Brownsville: 1036 violent, 2504 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Signal Mountain: 90 violent, 437 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Jefferson City: 293 violent, 1938 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Covington: 1113 violent, 2530 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Winchester: 373 violent, 2594 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Milan: 564 violent, 1993 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Pulaski: 461 violent, 2366 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Paris: 164 violent, 1689 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Clinton: 451 violent, 2148 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Brownsville Police Department
Reporting agency for Brownsville NIBRS-participating
Brownsville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Brownsville's 328 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Tennessee
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Tennessee cities closest to Brownsville in population. Their populations run from 8,243 to 10,430, against 9,264 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Brownsville reported 96 violent crimes and 232 property crimes, for a total of 328 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Brownsville?
From 2023 to 2024, Brownsville's violent crime rate increased by 1.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 13.5%.
What is the most common crime in Brownsville?
The most common crime type in Brownsville is larceny-theft, accounting for 50.6% of all reported crimes (166 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Brownsville is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Brownsville, TN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.