Lexington, TN is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 17% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lexington, TN shows violent crime at 412.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,987.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 17% 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
412.5/100K violent
1987.5/100K property
+17% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Lexington, TN
Comparable rate records
Lexington's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Tennessee cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Lexington's 412.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are East Ridge (411.2), Clarksville (410.0), Murfreesboro (420.0), McEwen (402.3). 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
Lexington sits mid-pack among comparable Tennessee cities
At 412.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lexington ranks 58 of 176 — above 118 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +38.2% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 518.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 412.5 in 2024 (-20.4%). The highest observed value was 855.3 in 2023 and the lowest 339.9 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Lexington'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.
Lexington's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 11.8 Census sq mi, Lexington logged 13.5 property and 2.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lexington's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 192 offenses; mix index 5,001).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
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
-51.8%
855.3 → 412.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-22.5%
2566 → 1987.5/100K
Property offenses lead Lexington's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
159
1987.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
130
1625
-
Burglary
21
262.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
8
100
-
Arson
2
25
-
Violent Crime
33
412.5
352
Aggravated Assault
32
400
-
Rape
1
12.5
-
Murder
0
0
-
Robbery
0
0
-
Lexington Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Lexington 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
Lexington: 413 violent, 1988 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Humboldt: 575 violent, 1622 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Pulaski: 461 violent, 2366 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Milan: 564 violent, 1993 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Ripley: 1743 violent, 2152 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Dayton: 241 violent, 1433 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Covington: 1113 violent, 2530 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Savannah: 694 violent, 2505 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Church Hill: 27 violent, 274 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Lexington Police Department
Reporting agency for Lexington NIBRS-participating
Lexington Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lexington's 192 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, Lexington reported 33 violent crimes and 159 property crimes, for a total of 192 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Lexington?
From 2023 to 2024, Lexington's violent crime rate decreased by 51.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 22.5%.
What is the most common crime in Lexington?
The most common crime type in Lexington is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.7% of all reported crimes (130 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Lexington 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 Lexington, TN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.