County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Hamblen County, TN
At 64,499 residents, Hamblen County is a large county in Tennessee. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Hamblen County, TN reported 158 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hamblen County, TN agencies reported 102 violent and 273 property offenses. That equals about 158 violent and 423 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
102 violent offenses
158/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Hamblen County, TN
Position in the state cohort
Hamblen County sits mid-pack among comparable Tennessee counties
At 158.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hamblen County ranks 37 of 92 — above 55 of the 91 other Tennessee counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +13.0% 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 164.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 158.1 in 2024 (-3.8%). The highest observed value was 235.7 in 2023 and the lowest 156.6 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
273
Burglary
64
Larceny-Theft
167
Motor Vehicle Theft
42
Arson
4
Violent Crime
102
Murder
1
Rape
6
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
94
Reporting Agency
Hamblen County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Hamblen County's crime figures on this page originate from Hamblen 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
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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.