County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Cocke County, TN
Cocke County (35,999 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Tennessee. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Cocke County, TN reported 300 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cocke County, TN agencies reported 108 violent and 288 property offenses. That equals about 300 violent and 800 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
108 violent offenses
300/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Cocke County, TN
Position in the state cohort
Cocke County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Tennessee counties
At 300.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cocke County ranks 6 of 92 — above 86 of the 91 other Tennessee counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +114.4% against the cohort median of 139.9. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 369.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 300.0 in 2024 (-18.8%). The highest observed value was 441.7 in 2021 and the lowest 300.0 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
288
Burglary
60
Larceny-Theft
170
Motor Vehicle Theft
58
Arson
12
Violent Crime
108
Murder
2
Rape
12
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
93
Reporting Agency
Cocke County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Cocke County's crime figures on this page originate from Cocke County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Counties in Tennessee
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Tennessee counties closest to Cocke County in population. Their populations run from 32,870 to 36,801, against 35,999 here. Or launch the
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.