Nolensville, TN has a A+ safety grade (93/100) with a violent crime rate of 50 per 100,000, 86% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Nolensville (15,930 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then TN and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Nolensville, TN is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A+ PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 86% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Nolensville, TN shows violent crime at 50.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 207.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 86% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A+ from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Nolensville reported 8 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 15,930. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Position in the state cohort
At 50.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Nolensville ranks 162 of 176 — above 14 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -83.4% against the cohort median of 302.8. 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Nolensville's 50.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Whiteville (43.9), Brentwood (57.5), Oliver Springs (58.3), Kimball (61.5). 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 93.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 50.2 in 2024 (-46.4%). The highest observed value was 101.1 in 2021 and the lowest 21.7 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 63.6% of reported property offenses in Nolensville, against a cohort median of 77.1%. The remainder is burglary (9) and motor vehicle theft (3). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Nolensville'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.
Based on 8 reported violent incidents in a population of 15,930. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 10.4 Census sq mi, Nolensville logged 3.2 property and 0.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Nolensville leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,462.
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Nolensville offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 33 | 207.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 21 | 131.8 |
| Burglary | 9 | 56.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 18.8 |
| Arson | 1 | 6.3 |
| Violent Crime | 8 | 50.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 7 | 43.9 |
| Rape | 1 | 6.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 10,665 | 93.8 | 497 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 11,866 | 101.1 | 370.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 16,990 | 94.2 | 335.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 18,450 | 21.7 | 233.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 15,930 | 50.2 | 207.2 |
Nolensville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Nolensville's 41 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Tennessee cities closest to Nolensville in population. Their populations run from 14,228 to 17,312, against 15,930 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Nolensville sits at 50.2/100K violent (grade A+); the Tennessee cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Nolensville at 50.2/100K violent and 207.2/100K property - matched below outside Tennessee (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
50.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
207.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Nolensville reported 8 violent crimes and 33 property crimes, for a total of 41 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Nolensville's violent crime rate increased by 131.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.1%.
The most common crime type in Nolensville is larceny-theft, accounting for 51.2% of all reported crimes (21 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Nolensville figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Nolensville's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Nolensville, TN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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