Oak Ridge, TN has a B safety grade (60/100) with a violent crime rate of 291 per 100,000, 17% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Oak Ridge (34,071 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 2026-08-24
Oak Ridge, TN carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 17% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Oak Ridge, TN shows violent crime at 290.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,276.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 17% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 593.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 290.6 in 2024 (-51.1%). The highest observed value was 593.7 in 2020 and the lowest 290.6 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Oak Ridge's 290.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Cookeville (292.6), Jefferson City (292.9), McKenzie (285.6), Tazewell (297.0). 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
At 290.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Oak Ridge ranks 93 of 176 — above 83 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -4.1% 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.
Property counts dominate Oak Ridge'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 85.3 Census sq mi, Oak Ridge logged 5.1 property and 1.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Oak Ridge's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 534 offenses; mix index 4,544).
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Oak Ridge offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (85.3 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 | 435 | 1276.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 343 | 1006.7 |
| Burglary | 71 | 208.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 21 | 61.6 |
| Arson | 4 | 11.7 |
| Violent Crime | 99 | 290.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 78 | 228.9 |
| Rape | 18 | 52.8 |
| Robbery | 3 | 8.8 |
| Murder | 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 | 29,139 | 593.7 | 2158.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 29,343 | 528.2 | 2532.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 32,243 | 322.6 | 1780.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 33,211 | 337.2 | 1526.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 34,071 | 290.6 | 1276.7 |
Oak Ridge Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Oak Ridge's 534 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 Oak Ridge in population. Their populations run from 25,655 to 44,049, against 34,071 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Oak Ridge sits at 290.6/100K violent (grade B); the Tennessee cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Oak Ridge at 290.6/100K violent and 1,276.7/100K property - matched below outside Tennessee (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
290.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,276.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-13.8% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Oak Ridge reported 99 violent crimes and 435 property crimes, for a total of 534 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Oak Ridge's violent crime rate decreased by 13.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16.4%.
The most common crime type in Oak Ridge is larceny-theft, accounting for 64.2% of all reported crimes (343 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Oak Ridge 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 Oak Ridge's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Oak Ridge, TN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Oak Ridge is scored in the mid-size municipal band (34,071 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.