Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, TN has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1124 per 100,000, 219% above the national average.
At 698,987 residents, Metropolitan Nashville Police Department is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against TN and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, TN carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 219% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, TN shows violent crime at 1,124.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,509.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 219% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
1124.1/100K violent
4509.5/100K property
+219% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, TN
Position in the state cohort
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Tennessee cities
At 1124.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Metropolitan Nashville Police Department ranks 7 of 176 — above 169 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +276.7% 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.
Comparable rate records
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Tennessee cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Metropolitan Nashville Police Department's 1124.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Covington (1112.8), Fayetteville (1150.2), Brownsville (1036.3), Tellico Plains (1024.3). 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.
Share of the state cohort
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department carries a large share of the reporting cohort’s total offenses
The 39,378 Part I offenses reported here are 24.5% of the 160,524 reported across all 176 comparable Tennessee cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 698,987 rather than as a uniform shift.
Property counts dominate Metropolitan Nashville Police Department'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 very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department's 2024 municipal footprint
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (59% of 39,378 offenses; mix index 4,005).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property offenses lead Metropolitan Nashville Police Department's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs TN
Property Crime
31,521
4509.5
1711
2057.9
Larceny-Theft
23,377
3344.4
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
5,051
722.6
-
-
Burglary
3,093
442.5
-
-
Arson
54
7.7
-
-
Violent Crime
7,857
1124.1
352
601.6
Aggravated Assault
6,169
882.6
-
-
Robbery
1,083
154.9
-
-
Rape
503
72
-
-
Murder
102
14.6
-
-
How Metropolitan Nashville Police Department sits among TN peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Similar-Size Cities in Tennessee
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Tennessee cities closest to Metropolitan Nashville Police Department in population. Their populations run from 68,286 to 613,207, against 698,987 here. Or use our
side-by-side compare tool
to benchmark two cities directly.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department sits at 1,124.1/100K violent (grade F); the Tennessee cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Out-of-state peers for Metropolitan Nashville Police Department
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department at 1,124.1/100K violent and 4,509.5/100K property - matched below outside Tennessee (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department violent rate vs peers
More about Metropolitan Nashville Police Department's 2024 record
How many crimes were reported in Metropolitan Nashville Police Department?
In 2024, Metropolitan Nashville Police Department reported 7,857 violent crimes and 31,521 property crimes, for a total of 39,378 reported offenses.
What is the most common crime in Metropolitan Nashville Police Department?
The most common crime type in Metropolitan Nashville Police Department is larceny-theft, accounting for 59.4% of all reported crimes (23,377 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Metropolitan Nashville Police Department'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 (very large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Metropolitan Nashville Police Department's very large city row is sourced and ranked.
Federal sources for this large-city row
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Summary Reporting System + National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). FBI UCR Program
FBI Crime Data Explorer (CDE), current-vintage UCR/NIBRS data source. FBI Crime Data Explorer
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), National Crime Victimization Survey, contextual statistics. Bureau of Justice Statistics
U.S. Census Bureau ACS, population denominators for rate calculations. U.S. Census Bureau ACS
CDC WONDER, injury and mortality reference for homicide rate context. CDC WONDER
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, TN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.