County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Meigs County, TN
Meigs County (12,758 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Tennessee. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Meigs County, TN reported 267 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Meigs County, TN agencies reported 34 violent and 101 property offenses. That equals about 267 violent and 792 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
34 violent offenses
267/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Meigs County, TN
Position in the state cohort
Meigs County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Tennessee counties
At 266.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Meigs County ranks 11 of 92 — above 81 of the 91 other Tennessee counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +90.4% 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 431.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 266.5 in 2024 (-38.2%). The highest observed value was 446.8 in 2022 and the lowest 227.3 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 51.5% of reported property offenses in Meigs County, against a cohort median of 60.4%. The remainder is burglary (21) and motor vehicle theft (28). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 25.2% of the 135 Part I offenses reported in Meigs County for 2024, against a median of 29.0% across comparable Tennessee counties — a gap of 3.8 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.
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
101
Burglary
21
Larceny-Theft
52
Motor Vehicle Theft
28
Arson
2
Violent Crime
34
Murder
0
Rape
0
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
33
Reporting Agency
Meigs County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Meigs County's crime figures on this page originate from Meigs 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.