Dyersburg, TN has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1257 per 100,000, 257% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Dyersburg (15,917 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
Dyersburg, TN carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 257% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Dyersburg, TN shows violent crime at 1,256.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,755.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 257% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 1256.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Dyersburg ranks 5 of 176 — above 171 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +321.1% 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Dyersburg's 1256.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bolivar (1269.8), Fayetteville (1150.2), Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (1124.1), Covington (1112.8). 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1263.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1256.5 in 2024 (-0.5%). The highest observed value was 1332.8 in 2021 and the lowest 1157.1 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Dyersburg'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 17.3 Census sq mi, Dyersburg logged 43.7 property and 11.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Dyersburg's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (59% of 957 offenses; mix index 4,031).
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Dyersburg offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (17.3 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 | 757 | 4755.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 560 | 3518.3 |
| Burglary | 150 | 942.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 47 | 295.3 |
| Arson | 3 | 18.8 |
| Violent Crime | 200 | 1256.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 175 | 1099.5 |
| Rape | 13 | 81.7 |
| Robbery | 9 | 56.5 |
| Murder | 3 | 18.8 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 16,226 | 1263.4 | 6828.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 15,981 | 1332.8 | 5062.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 15,988 | 1157.1 | 5053.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 15,876 | 1196.8 | 5158.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 15,917 | 1256.5 | 4755.9 |
Dyersburg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Dyersburg's 957 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 Dyersburg in population. Their populations run from 14,228 to 17,312, against 15,917 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Dyersburg sits at 1,256.5/100K violent (grade F); the Tennessee cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Dyersburg at 1,256.5/100K violent and 4,755.9/100K property - matched below outside Tennessee (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,256.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
4,755.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Dyersburg reported 200 violent crimes and 757 property crimes, for a total of 957 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Dyersburg's violent crime rate increased by 5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 7.8%.
The most common crime type in Dyersburg is larceny-theft, accounting for 58.5% of all reported crimes (560 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Dyersburg 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 Dyersburg's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Dyersburg, TN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Dyersburg is scored in the mid-size municipal band (15,917 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.