Clarksville, TN has a C safety grade (45/100) with a violent crime rate of 410 per 100,000, 16% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Clarksville, TN Crime Rate & Safety
At 185,349 residents, Clarksville is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against TN and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Clarksville, TN carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 16% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Clarksville, TN shows violent crime at 410 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,632.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 16% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
410/100K violent
1632.1/100K property
+16% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Clarksville, TN
Comparable rate records
Clarksville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Tennessee cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Clarksville's 410.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are East Ridge (411.2), Lexington (412.5), McEwen (402.3), Johnson City (402.2). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 627.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 410.0 in 2024 (-34.7%). The highest observed value was 627.9 in 2020 and the lowest 410.0 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Clarksville sits mid-pack among comparable Tennessee cities
At 410.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Clarksville ranks 60 of 176 — above 116 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +37.4% 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.
Property counts dominate Clarksville'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Clarksville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 100.1 Census sq mi, Clarksville logged 30.2 property and 7.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Clarksville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 3,785 offenses; mix index 4,180).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (100.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-13.7%
474.9 → 410/100K
Property Crime Rate
-7.7%
1767.8 → 1632.1/100K
Property offenses lead Clarksville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TN
Property Crime
3,025
1632.1
2057.9
Larceny-Theft
2,314
1248.5
-
Burglary
373
201.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
338
182.4
-
Arson
18
9.7
-
Violent Crime
760
410
601.6
Aggravated Assault
607
327.5
-
Rape
101
54.5
-
Robbery
43
23.2
-
Murder
9
4.9
-
Clarksville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Clarksville 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 averages
Clarksville Police Department
Reporting agency for Clarksville NIBRS-participating
Clarksville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Clarksville's 3,785 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 Clarksville in population. Their populations run from 59,921 to 200,457, against 185,349 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Clarksville reported 760 violent crimes and 3,025 property crimes, for a total of 3,785 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Clarksville?
From 2023 to 2024, Clarksville's violent crime rate decreased by 13.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 7.7%.
What is the most common crime in Clarksville?
The most common crime type in Clarksville is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.1% of all reported crimes (2,314 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Clarksville's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Clarksville, TN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.