County crime profile · 2024 · small county · property-led
Houston County, TN
Houston County is a small county (8,283 people) in Tennessee. FBI Table 10 county totals lead; rates appear only with a verified Census population join.
Houston County, TN reported 302 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Houston County, TN agencies reported 25 violent and 35 property offenses. That equals about 302 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
25 violent offenses
302/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Houston County, TN
Position in the state cohort
Houston County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Tennessee counties
At 301.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Houston County ranks 5 of 92 — above 87 of the 91 other Tennessee counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +115.7% 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.
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Houston County reported 25 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 8,283. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 507.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 301.8 in 2024 (-40.5%). The highest observed value was 507.1 in 2020 and the lowest 156.9 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 41.7% of the 60 Part I offenses reported in Houston County for 2024, against a median of 28.8% across comparable Tennessee counties — a gap of 12.9 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 42.9% of reported property offenses in Houston County, against a cohort median of 60.4%. The remainder is burglary (16) and motor vehicle theft (4). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Small-county UCR rows are especially sensitive to which agencies filed. Per-100,000 rates use a matched 2020 Census population when available; otherwise counts only. Do not treat the county total as a town-level crime level.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · small county
Category
Count
Property Crime
35
Burglary
16
Larceny-Theft
15
Motor Vehicle Theft
4
Arson
0
Violent Crime
25
Murder
0
Rape
0
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
25
Reporting Agency
Houston County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Houston County's crime figures on this page originate from Houston 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 Houston County in population. Their populations run from 6,461 to 8,366, against 8,283 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.