Portland, TN has a C safety grade (59/100) with a violent crime rate of 372 per 100,000, 6% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Portland (13,703 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
Portland, TN carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 6% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Portland, TN shows violent crime at 372.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 459.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 6% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 44.7% of the 114 Part I offenses reported in Portland for 2024, against a median of 18.7% across comparable Tennessee cities — a gap of 26.0 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Portland's 372.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Madisonville (371.8), Winchester (373.4), Newbern (368.8), Oneida (366.2). 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 372.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Portland ranks 71 of 176 — above 105 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +24.7% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 68.3% of reported property offenses in Portland, against a cohort median of 77.1%. The remainder is burglary (12) and motor vehicle theft (8). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 416.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 372.2 in 2024 (-10.6%). The highest observed value was 416.4 in 2020 and the lowest 264.3 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Portland's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters 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 15.1 Census sq mi, Portland logged 4.2 property and 3.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Portland leans on aggravated assault at 40% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,233.
Violent offenses are 45% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a mid-size city.
Portland offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (15.1 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 | 63 | 459.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 43 | 313.8 |
| Burglary | 12 | 87.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 8 | 58.4 |
| Arson | 2 | 14.6 |
| Violent Crime | 51 | 372.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 46 | 335.7 |
| Rape | 5 | 36.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 13,208 | 416.4 | 1741.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 13,493 | 326.1 | 956.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 13,460 | 297.2 | 839.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 13,622 | 264.3 | 594.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 13,703 | 372.2 | 459.8 |
Portland Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Portland's 114 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 Portland in population. Their populations run from 12,842 to 14,949, against 13,703 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Portland sits at 372.2/100K violent (grade C); the Tennessee cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Portland at 372.2/100K violent and 459.8/100K property - matched below outside Tennessee (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
372.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
459.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Portland reported 51 violent crimes and 63 property crimes, for a total of 114 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Portland's violent crime rate increased by 40.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 22.7%.
The most common crime type in Portland is aggravated assault, accounting for 40.4% of all reported crimes (46 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Portland 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 Portland's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Portland, 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. Portland is scored in the mid-size municipal band (13,703 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.