Harriman, TN is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 36% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Harriman, TN shows violent crime at 480.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,586.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 36% 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
480.3/100K violent
3586.3/100K property
+36% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Harriman, TN
Comparable rate records
Harriman's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Tennessee cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Harriman's 480.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Gatlinburg (479.7), Somerville (477.7), Tracy City (484.1), La Vergne (476.2). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Harriman reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Tennessee cities
At 480.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Harriman ranks 41 of 176 — above 135 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +61.0% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 11.8% of the 254 Part I offenses reported in Harriman for 2024, against a median of 18.9% across comparable Tennessee cities — a gap of 7.1 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 89.3% of reported property offenses in Harriman, against a cohort median of 77.1%. The remainder is burglary (11) and motor vehicle theft (13). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 507.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 480.3 in 2024 (-5.3%). The highest observed value was 507.4 in 2020 and the lowest 200.5 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Harriman'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.
Harriman's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 10.5 Census sq mi, Harriman logged 21.3 property and 2.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Harriman's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (79% of 254 offenses; mix index 6,332).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.5 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
+72.8%
2075.9 → 3586.3/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+48.1%
324.4 → 480.3/100K
Property offenses lead Harriman's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs TN
Property Crime
224
3586.3
1711
2057.9
Larceny-Theft
200
3202
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
13
208.1
-
-
Burglary
11
176.1
-
-
Arson
3
48
-
-
Violent Crime
30
480.3
352
601.6
Aggravated Assault
23
368.2
-
-
Rape
4
64
-
-
Robbery
3
48
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Harriman Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Harriman 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
Harriman: 480 violent, 3586 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Millersville: 238 violent, 461 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Kingston: 127 violent, 301 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Pigeon Forge: 788 violent, 3168 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Henderson: 186 violent, 590 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Dunlap: 168 violent, 1040 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Lafayette: 118 violent, 1722 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Jonesborough: 150 violent, 1332 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Sweetwater: 344 violent, 1374 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Harriman Police Department
Reporting agency for Harriman NIBRS-participating
Harriman Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Harriman's 254 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
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In 2024, Harriman reported 30 violent crimes and 224 property crimes, for a total of 254 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Harriman?
From 2023 to 2024, Harriman's violent crime rate increased by 48.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 72.8%.
What is the most common crime in Harriman?
The most common crime type in Harriman is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.7% of all reported crimes (200 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Harriman 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 Harriman, TN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.