County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · violent-led
Macon County (25,216 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
Macon County, TN reported 175 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Macon County, TN agencies reported 44 violent and 13 property offenses. That equals about 175 violent and 52 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 77.2% of the 57 Part I offenses reported in Macon County for 2024, against a median of 28.8% across comparable Tennessee counties — a gap of 48.4 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 is 23.1% of reported property offenses in Macon County, against a cohort median of 60.4%. The remainder is burglary (1) and motor vehicle theft (9). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 245.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 174.5 in 2024 (-29.0%). The highest observed value was 285.5 in 2022 and the lowest 174.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 174.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Macon County ranks 34 of 92 — above 58 of the 91 other Tennessee counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +24.7% 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.
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.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 44 |
| Murder | 0 |
| Rape | 3 |
| Robbery | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 41 |
| Property Crime | 13 |
| Burglary | 1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 9 |
| Arson | 1 |
Macon County's crime figures on this page originate from Macon 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.
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Tennessee counties closest to Macon County in population. Their populations run from 24,925 to 26,831, against 25,216 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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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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