Union City, TN has a F safety grade (9/100) with a violent crime rate of 698 per 100,000, 98% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Union City (10,887 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
Union City, TN carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 98% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Union City, TN shows violent crime at 698.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,424.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 98% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 698.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Union City ranks 20 of 176 — above 156 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +133.9% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Union City's 698.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Savannah (694.4), Newport (684.7), Lewisburg (716.1), Knoxville (740.3). 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 799.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 698.1 in 2024 (-12.6%). The highest observed value was 895.6 in 2021 and the lowest 577.9 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 22.4% of the 340 Part I offenses reported in Union City for 2024, against a median of 18.7% across comparable Tennessee cities — a gap of 3.6 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.
Property counts dominate Union City'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 12.1 Census sq mi, Union City logged 21.8 property and 6.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Union City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 340 offenses; mix index 4,378).
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Union City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (12.1 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 | 264 | 2424.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 211 | 1938.1 |
| Burglary | 27 | 248 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 26 | 238.8 |
| Arson | 4 | 36.7 |
| Violent Crime | 76 | 698.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 68 | 624.6 |
| Rape | 6 | 55.1 |
| Robbery | 2 | 18.4 |
| 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 | 10,263 | 799 | 4599 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 10,272 | 895.6 | 4273.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,996 | 873 | 4065.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 10,901 | 577.9 | 3274.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 10,887 | 698.1 | 2424.9 |
Union City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Union City's 340 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 Union City in population. Their populations run from 10,177 to 11,599, against 10,887 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Union City sits at 698.1/100K violent (grade F); the Tennessee cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Union City at 698.1/100K violent and 2,424.9/100K property - matched below outside Tennessee (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
698.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,424.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Union City reported 76 violent crimes and 264 property crimes, for a total of 340 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Union City's violent crime rate increased by 20.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 26%.
The most common crime type in Union City is larceny-theft, accounting for 62.1% of all reported crimes (211 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Union City 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 Union City's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Union City, 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. Union City is scored in the mid-size municipal band (10,887 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.