Murfreesboro, TN has a C safety grade (41/100) with a violent crime rate of 420 per 100,000, 19% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Murfreesboro, TN Crime Rate & Safety
At 169,520 residents, Murfreesboro 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.
Murfreesboro, TN carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 19% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Murfreesboro, TN shows violent crime at 420 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,022.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 19% 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
420/100K violent
2022.2/100K property
+19% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Murfreesboro, TN
Comparable rate records
Murfreesboro's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Tennessee cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Murfreesboro's 420.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lexington (412.5), East Ridge (411.2), Dyer (429.9), Clarksville (410.0). 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
Murfreesboro sits mid-pack among comparable Tennessee cities
At 420.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Murfreesboro ranks 57 of 176 — above 119 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +40.8% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 493.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 420.0 in 2024 (-14.9%). The highest observed value was 493.5 in 2020 and the lowest 396.4 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Murfreesboro'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.
Murfreesboro's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 64.5 Census sq mi, Murfreesboro logged 53.1 property and 11 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Murfreesboro's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 4,140 offenses; mix index 4,920).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (64.5 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
-13.6%
2340.7 → 2022.2/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-11.4%
473.9 → 420/100K
Property offenses lead Murfreesboro's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
3,428
2022.2
1711
Larceny-Theft
2,812
1658.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
339
200
-
Burglary
277
163.4
-
Arson
3
1.8
-
Violent Crime
712
420
352
Aggravated Assault
569
335.7
-
Rape
88
51.9
-
Robbery
50
29.5
-
Murder
5
2.9
-
Murfreesboro Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Murfreesboro 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
Murfreesboro Police Department
Reporting agency for Murfreesboro NIBRS-participating
Murfreesboro Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Murfreesboro's 4,140 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, Murfreesboro reported 712 violent crimes and 3,428 property crimes, for a total of 4,140 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Murfreesboro?
From 2023 to 2024, Murfreesboro's violent crime rate decreased by 11.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 13.6%.
What is the most common crime in Murfreesboro?
The most common crime type in Murfreesboro is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.9% of all reported crimes (2,812 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Murfreesboro'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 Murfreesboro, TN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.