Huntingdon, 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, Huntingdon, TN shows violent crime at 132.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 795.2 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
132.5/100K violent
795.2/100K property
-62% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Huntingdon, TN
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 52.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 132.5 in 2024 (+153.0%). The highest observed value was 248.2 in 2022 and the lowest 52.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Huntingdon reported 6 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,527. 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
Huntingdon's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Tennessee cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Huntingdon's 132.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Franklin (132.1), Maryville (132.0), 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.
Position in the state cohort
Huntingdon reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Tennessee cities
At 132.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Huntingdon ranks 134 of 176 — above 42 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -56.2% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 94.4% of reported property offenses in Huntingdon, against a cohort median of 77.1%. The remainder is burglary (1) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 14.3% of the 42 Part I offenses reported in Huntingdon for 2024, against a median of 18.9% across comparable Tennessee cities — a gap of 4.6 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 counts dominate Huntingdon'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 6 reported violent incidents in a population of 4,527. 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.
Huntingdon's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 11.8 Census sq mi, Huntingdon logged 3 property and 0.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Huntingdon's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (81% of 42 offenses; mix index 6,769).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (11.8 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
-35%
203.7 → 132.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
+0.4%
792.2 → 795.2/100K
Property offenses lead Huntingdon's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TN
Property Crime
36
795.2
2057.9
Larceny-Theft
34
751
-
Burglary
1
22.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
1
22.1
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
6
132.5
601.6
Aggravated Assault
6
132.5
-
Murder
0
0
-
Rape
0
0
-
Robbery
0
0
-
Huntingdon Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Huntingdon 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 averagesRead the chart as a list
Huntingdon: 133 violent, 795 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Whiteville: 44 violent, 263 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Selmer: 869 violent, 1871 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Rogersville: 151 violent, 1666 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Coopertown: 126 violent, 273 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Waverly: 188 violent, 375 property per 100,000 (grade A)
White Bluff: 329 violent, 962 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Mount Pleasant: 269 violent, 745 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Sparta: 123 violent, 2251 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Huntingdon Police Department
Reporting agency for Huntingdon NIBRS-participating
Huntingdon Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Huntingdon's 42 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 Huntingdon in population. Their populations run from 4,262 to 4,887, against 4,527 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Huntingdon reported 6 violent crimes and 36 property crimes, for a total of 42 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Huntingdon?
From 2023 to 2024, Huntingdon's violent crime rate decreased by 35%, and the property crime rate increased by 0.4%.
What is the most common crime in Huntingdon?
The most common crime type in Huntingdon is larceny-theft, accounting for 81.0% of all reported crimes (34 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Huntingdon 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 Huntingdon, TN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.