County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Hamilton County, TN
At 366,207 residents, Hamilton County is a very large county in Tennessee. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Hamilton County, TN reported 88 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hamilton County, TN agencies reported 323 violent and 644 property offenses. That equals about 88 violent and 176 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
323 violent offenses
88/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Hamilton County, TN
Position in the state cohort
Hamilton County sits mid-pack among comparable Tennessee counties
At 88.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hamilton County ranks 68 of 92 — above 24 of the 91 other Tennessee counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -37.6% against the cohort median of 141.3. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 33.4% of the 967 Part I offenses reported in Hamilton County for 2024, against a median of 28.8% across comparable Tennessee counties — a gap of 4.6 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 68.3% of reported property offenses in Hamilton County, against a cohort median of 60.2%. The remainder is burglary (144) and motor vehicle theft (60). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 84.9 per 100,000 in 2021 to 88.2 in 2024 (+3.9%). The highest observed value was 88.2 in 2024 and the lowest 54.9 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a very 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 · very large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
644
Burglary
144
Larceny-Theft
440
Motor Vehicle Theft
60
Arson
1
Violent Crime
323
Murder
2
Rape
29
Robbery
8
Aggravated Assault
284
Reporting Agency
Hamilton County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Hamilton County's crime figures on this page originate from Hamilton 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.