Johnson City, TN has a C safety grade (40/100) with a violent crime rate of 402 per 100,000, 14% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Johnson City, TN Crime Rate & Safety
At 74,093 residents, Johnson City 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.
Johnson City, TN carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 14% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Johnson City, TN shows violent crime at 402.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,302.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 14% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
402.2/100K violent
2302.5/100K property
+14% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Johnson City, TN
Comparable rate records
Johnson City's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Tennessee cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Johnson City's 402.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are McEwen (402.3), Smithville (399.0), Berry Hill (397.3), Red Bank (396.3). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Johnson City sits mid-pack among comparable Tennessee cities
At 402.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Johnson City ranks 62 of 176 — above 114 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +34.8% 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 14.9% of the 2,004 Part I offenses reported in Johnson City for 2024, against a median of 18.9% across comparable Tennessee cities — a gap of 4.0 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 442.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 402.2 in 2024 (-9.2%). The highest observed value was 442.8 in 2020 and the lowest 380.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Johnson City'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.
Johnson City's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 43.8 Census sq mi, Johnson City logged 39 property and 6.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Johnson City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 2,004 offenses; mix index 5,284).
Violent offenses are only 15% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (43.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-18.7%
2832.4 → 2302.5/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+0.5%
400.1 → 402.2/100K
Property offenses lead Johnson City's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,706
2302.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,426
1924.6
-
Burglary
151
203.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
129
174.1
-
Arson
5
6.7
-
Violent Crime
298
402.2
352
Aggravated Assault
213
287.5
-
Rape
56
75.6
-
Robbery
25
33.7
-
Murder
4
5.4
-
Johnson City Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Johnson City 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
Johnson City Police Department
Reporting agency for Johnson City NIBRS-participating
Johnson City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Johnson City's 2,004 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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Johnson City at 402.2/100K violent and 2,302.5/100K property - matched below outside Tennessee (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Johnson City reported 298 violent crimes and 1,706 property crimes, for a total of 2,004 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Johnson City?
From 2023 to 2024, Johnson City's violent crime rate increased by 0.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 18.7%.
What is the most common crime in Johnson City?
The most common crime type in Johnson City is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.2% of all reported crimes (1,426 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Johnson City'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 Johnson City, TN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.