County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led

Johnson County, TN

Johnson County (17,948 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Tennessee. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.

Data updated 2026-08-24

112
Property offenses
51
Violent offenses
163
Total · 2024

Johnson County, TN reported 284 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Johnson County, TN agencies reported 51 violent and 112 property offenses. That equals about 284 violent and 624 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
  • 51 violent offenses
  • 284/100K violent rate

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Johnson County, TN

Position in the state cohort

Johnson County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Tennessee counties

At 284.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Johnson County ranks 8 of 92 — above 84 of the 91 other Tennessee counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +103.0% 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 higher

Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 211.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 284.2 in 2024 (+34.2%). The highest observed value was 284.2 in 2024 and the lowest 206.2 in 2021. 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 112
Burglary 31
Larceny-Theft 68
Motor Vehicle Theft 13
Arson 0
Violent Crime 51
Murder 2
Rape 10
Robbery 0
Aggravated Assault 39

Reporting Agency

Johnson County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

Johnson County's crime figures on this page originate from Johnson 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 Johnson County in population. Their populations run from 17,341 to 18,489, against 17,948 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

ZIP Codes in Johnson County

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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.

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