Greenbrier, TN has a A safety grade (80/100) with a violent crime rate of 158 per 100,000, 55% below the national average.

FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city

Greenbrier, TN Crime Rate & Safety

Greenbrier is a small municipal reporter (6,949 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with TN and U.S. context.

Data updated 2026-09-05

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Safety grade
460.5
Property / 100K
158.3
Violent / 100K
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Population

Greenbrier, TN is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 55% below the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Greenbrier, TN shows violent crime at 158.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 460.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 55% 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
  • 158.3/100K violent
  • 460.5/100K property
  • -55% vs U.S.

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Greenbrier, TN

Small-count caution

The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable

Greenbrier reported 11 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 6,949. 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

Greenbrier's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Tennessee cohort

The nearest comparable 2024 records to Greenbrier's 158.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mount Juliet (158.9), Loudon (160.0), Bells (161.3), Etowah (161.3). 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 261.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 158.3 in 2024 (-39.4%). The highest observed value was 545.7 in 2022 and the lowest 158.3 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

Greenbrier sits mid-pack among comparable Tennessee cities

At 158.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Greenbrier ranks 126 of 176 — above 50 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -47.7% 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix

Violent offenses are 25.6% of the 43 Part I offenses reported in Greenbrier for 2024, against a median of 18.7% across comparable Tennessee cities — a gap of 6.9 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

Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort

Larceny-theft is 62.5% of reported property offenses in Greenbrier, against a cohort median of 77.1%. The remainder is burglary (5) and motor vehicle theft (7). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.

Property counts dominate Greenbrier'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 11 reported violent incidents in a population of 6,949. 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.

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.

Greenbrier's 2024 municipal footprint

Across 7.3 Census sq mi, Greenbrier logged 4.4 property and 1.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.

Greenbrier leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,023.

Violent offenses are 26% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.

Greenbrier offense mix (2024)

Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.

Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)

Violent Crime Rate
-54%
343.8 → 158.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
+3.7%
444.1 → 460.5/100K

Property offenses lead Greenbrier's 2024 record

Offense Count Rate /100K
Property Crime 32 460.5
Larceny-Theft 20 287.8
Motor Vehicle Theft 7 100.7
Burglary 5 72
Arson 0 0
Violent Crime 11 158.3
Aggravated Assault 9 129.5
Rape 2 28.8
Murder 0 0
Robbery 0 0

Greenbrier Crime Trend (2020-2024)

Greenbrier property crime rate trend

Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR

Property crime rate (2024)
460.5/100K 3.7% vs 2023
400500600700800 20202021202220232024 461

Greenbrier violent crime rate trend

Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR

Violent crime rate (2024)
158.3/100K 54% vs 2023
100200300400500600 20202021202220232024 158
Year Coverage Population Violent Rate Property Rate
2020 Comparable 6,896 261 696.1
2021 Comparable 6,949 302.2 777.1
2022 Comparable 6,963 545.7 545.7
2023 Comparable 6,980 343.8 444.1
2024 Comparable 6,949 158.3 460.5

How Greenbrier sits among TN peers

POP-SMALLCOHORT-SIZEVIOL-LOWPROP-LOWQUAD-LLGRADE-ANIBRSUCR-2024
Greenbrier vs. similar-size TN cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 9 cities; the anchor is ringed. Greenbrier vs. similar-size TN cities, violent vs. property crime 25 1,242 Violent crime per 100K → 246 4,653 Property crime per 100K → Greenbrier SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME PROPERTY-HEAVY VIOLENT-HEAVY Safety grade A / B C D / F
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Read the chart as a list
  • Greenbrier: 158 violent, 461 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Munford: 449 violent, 623 property per 100,000 (grade C)
  • Newport: 685 violent, 4308 property per 100,000 (grade F)
  • Loudon: 160 violent, 538 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Fayetteville: 1150 violent, 1676 property per 100,000 (grade F)
  • La Follette: 320 violent, 877 property per 100,000 (grade B)
  • Sweetwater: 344 violent, 1374 property per 100,000 (grade C)
  • Jonesborough: 150 violent, 1332 property per 100,000 (grade B)
  • Church Hill: 27 violent, 274 property per 100,000 (grade A+)

Greenbrier Police Department

Reporting agency for Greenbrier NIBRS-participating

Greenbrier Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Greenbrier's 43 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 Greenbrier in population. Their populations run from 6,684 to 7,311, against 6,949 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.

Greenbrier's closest TN violent-rate matches

Greenbrier sits at 158.3/100K violent (grade A); the Tennessee cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.

More about Greenbrier's 2024 record

How many crimes were reported in Greenbrier?

In 2024, Greenbrier reported 11 violent crimes and 32 property crimes, for a total of 43 reported offenses.

Is crime increasing or decreasing in Greenbrier?

From 2023 to 2024, Greenbrier's violent crime rate decreased by 54%, and the property crime rate increased by 3.7%.

What is the most common crime in Greenbrier?

The most common crime type in Greenbrier is larceny-theft, accounting for 46.5% of all reported crimes (20 incidents in 2024).

Small-city read: Greenbrier 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.

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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Greenbrier, TN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.

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