Kingsport, TN has a D safety grade (30/100) with a violent crime rate of 441 per 100,000, 25% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Kingsport, TN Crime Rate & Safety
At 57,138 residents, Kingsport 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.
Kingsport, TN carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 25% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Kingsport, TN shows violent crime at 441 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,959.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 25% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
D safety grade
441/100K violent
2959.5/100K property
+25% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Kingsport, TN
Comparable rate records
Kingsport's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Tennessee cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Kingsport's 441.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Charleston (444.0), Sevierville (436.9), Gordonsville (433.8), Bluff City (433.4). 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 689.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 441.0 in 2024 (-36.0%). The highest observed value was 788.5 in 2022 and the lowest 441.0 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
Kingsport sits mid-pack among comparable Tennessee cities
At 441.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Kingsport ranks 51 of 176 — above 125 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +47.8% 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 13.0% of the 1,943 Part I offenses reported in Kingsport for 2024, against a median of 18.9% across comparable Tennessee cities — a gap of 5.9 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 counts dominate Kingsport'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.
Kingsport's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 53.1 Census sq mi, Kingsport logged 31.9 property and 4.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Kingsport's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 1,943 offenses; mix index 5,019).
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (53.1 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
-33%
658.2 → 441/100K
Property Crime Rate
-18.3%
3623.4 → 2959.5/100K
Property offenses lead Kingsport's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,691
2959.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,338
2341.7
-
Burglary
180
315
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
173
302.8
-
Arson
8
14
-
Violent Crime
252
441
352
Aggravated Assault
202
353.5
-
Rape
27
47.3
-
Robbery
21
36.8
-
Murder
2
3.5
-
Kingsport Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Kingsport 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
Kingsport Police Department
Reporting agency for Kingsport NIBRS-participating
Kingsport Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Kingsport's 1,943 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 Kingsport in population. Their populations run from 49,482 to 64,126, against 57,138 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Kingsport reported 252 violent crimes and 1,691 property crimes, for a total of 1,943 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Kingsport?
From 2023 to 2024, Kingsport's violent crime rate decreased by 33%, and the property crime rate decreased by 18.3%.
What is the most common crime in Kingsport?
The most common crime type in Kingsport is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.9% of all reported crimes (1,338 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Kingsport'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 Kingsport, TN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.