Smyrna, TN has a C safety grade (51/100) with a violent crime rate of 279 per 100,000, 21% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Smyrna, TN Crime Rate & Safety
At 58,791 residents, Smyrna 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.
Smyrna, TN carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 21% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Smyrna, TN shows violent crime at 279 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,386.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 21% below 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
279/100K violent
2386.4/100K property
-21% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Smyrna, TN
Comparable rate records
Smyrna's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Tennessee cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Smyrna's 279.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hohenwald (278.1), McKenzie (285.6), Mount Pleasant (269.2), Oak Ridge (290.6). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 394.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 279.0 in 2024 (-29.3%). The highest observed value was 394.5 in 2020 and the lowest 269.1 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 10.5% of the 1,567 Part I offenses reported in Smyrna for 2024, against a median of 18.9% across comparable Tennessee cities — a gap of 8.5 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.
Position in the state cohort
Smyrna sits mid-pack among comparable Tennessee cities
At 279.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Smyrna ranks 95 of 176 — above 81 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -7.9% 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 Smyrna'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.
Smyrna's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 34.1 Census sq mi, Smyrna logged 41.1 property and 4.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Smyrna's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 1,567 offenses; mix index 5,192).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (34.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-3.5%
289.2 → 279/100K
Property Crime Rate
+0.9%
2365.1 → 2386.4/100K
Property offenses lead Smyrna's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,403
2386.4
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,098
1867.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
208
353.8
-
Burglary
97
165
-
Arson
2
3.4
-
Violent Crime
164
279
352
Aggravated Assault
126
214.3
-
Robbery
20
34
-
Rape
17
28.9
-
Murder
1
1.7
-
Smyrna Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Smyrna property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Smyrna Police Department
Reporting agency for Smyrna NIBRS-participating
Smyrna Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Smyrna's 1,567 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, Smyrna reported 164 violent crimes and 1,403 property crimes, for a total of 1,567 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Smyrna?
From 2023 to 2024, Smyrna's violent crime rate decreased by 3.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 0.9%.
What is the most common crime in Smyrna?
The most common crime type in Smyrna is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.1% of all reported crimes (1,098 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Smyrna'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 Smyrna, TN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.