Franklin, TN has a A safety grade (79/100) with a violent crime rate of 132 per 100,000, 62% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Franklin, TN Crime Rate & Safety
At 90,077 residents, Franklin 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.
Franklin, TN is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 62% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Franklin, TN shows violent crime at 132.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 942.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 62% 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.
A safety grade
132.1/100K violent
942.5/100K property
-62% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Franklin, TN
Comparable rate records
Franklin's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Tennessee cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Franklin's 132.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Maryville (132.0), Huntingdon (132.5), Unicoi (131.0), South Pittsburg (136.2). 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 229.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 132.1 in 2024 (-42.5%). The highest observed value was 229.8 in 2020 and the lowest 132.1 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
Franklin reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Tennessee cities
At 132.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Franklin ranks 135 of 176 — above 41 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -56.4% 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
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 12.3% of the 968 Part I offenses reported in Franklin for 2024, against a median of 18.9% 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 dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 88.0% of reported property offenses in Franklin, against a cohort median of 77.1%. The remainder is burglary (36) and motor vehicle theft (66). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Franklin'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.
Franklin's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 44.6 Census sq mi, Franklin logged 19.1 property and 2.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Franklin's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 968 offenses; mix index 6,124).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (44.6 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
-12.3%
150.6 → 132.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
-9.1%
1037.2 → 942.5/100K
Property offenses lead Franklin's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TN
Property Crime
849
942.5
2057.9
Larceny-Theft
747
829.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
66
73.3
-
Burglary
36
40
-
Arson
1
1.1
-
Violent Crime
119
132.1
601.6
Aggravated Assault
100
111
-
Rape
12
13.3
-
Robbery
6
6.7
-
Murder
1
1.1
-
Franklin Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Franklin property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose 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
Franklin: 132 violent, 943 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Johnson City: 402 violent, 2303 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Jackson: 950 violent, 3160 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Hendersonville: 123 violent, 714 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Spring Hill: 164 violent, 499 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Smyrna: 279 violent, 2386 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Kingsport: 441 violent, 2960 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Bartlett: 251 violent, 1283 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Gallatin: 208 violent, 749 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Franklin Police Department
Reporting agency for Franklin NIBRS-participating
Franklin Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Franklin's 968 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 Franklin in population. Their populations run from 52,346 to 74,093, against 90,077 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Franklin reported 119 violent crimes and 849 property crimes, for a total of 968 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Franklin?
From 2023 to 2024, Franklin's violent crime rate decreased by 12.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9.1%.
What is the most common crime in Franklin?
The most common crime type in Franklin is larceny-theft, accounting for 77.2% of all reported crimes (747 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Franklin'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 Franklin, TN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.