Hendersonville, TN has a A safety grade (81/100) with a violent crime rate of 123 per 100,000, 65% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Hendersonville, TN Crime Rate & Safety
At 64,126 residents, Hendersonville 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.
Hendersonville, TN carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 65% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hendersonville, TN shows violent crime at 123.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 714.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 65% 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
123.2/100K violent
714.2/100K property
-65% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Hendersonville, TN
Comparable rate records
Hendersonville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Tennessee cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hendersonville's 123.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Sparta (122.8), Fairview (123.9), South Carthage (124.1), Coopertown (125.8). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Hendersonville reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Tennessee cities
At 123.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hendersonville ranks 144 of 176 — above 32 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -59.3% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 147.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 123.2 in 2024 (-16.6%). The highest observed value was 147.7 in 2020 and the lowest 112.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 14.7% of the 537 Part I offenses reported in Hendersonville for 2024, against a median of 18.9% across comparable Tennessee cities — a gap of 4.2 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 86.0% of reported property offenses in Hendersonville, against a cohort median of 77.1%. The remainder is burglary (33) and motor vehicle theft (31). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Hendersonville'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.
Hendersonville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 31.7 Census sq mi, Hendersonville logged 14.5 property and 2.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hendersonville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 537 offenses; mix index 5,645).
Violent offenses are only 15% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (31.7 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
-21.1%
905.3 → 714.2/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+9.8%
112.2 → 123.2/100K
Property offenses lead Hendersonville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TN
Property Crime
458
714.2
2057.9
Larceny-Theft
394
614.4
-
Burglary
33
51.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
31
48.3
-
Arson
2
3.1
-
Violent Crime
79
123.2
601.6
Aggravated Assault
74
115.4
-
Murder
2
3.1
-
Rape
2
3.1
-
Robbery
1
1.6
-
Hendersonville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Hendersonville 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
Hendersonville Police Department
Reporting agency for Hendersonville NIBRS-participating
Hendersonville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hendersonville's 537 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 Hendersonville in population. Their populations run from 51,653 to 74,093, against 64,126 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Hendersonville reported 79 violent crimes and 458 property crimes, for a total of 537 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Hendersonville?
From 2023 to 2024, Hendersonville's violent crime rate increased by 9.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 21.1%.
What is the most common crime in Hendersonville?
The most common crime type in Hendersonville is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.4% of all reported crimes (394 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Hendersonville'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 Hendersonville, TN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.