County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Putnam County, TN
At 79,854 residents, Putnam County is a large county in Tennessee. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Putnam County, TN reported 74 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Putnam County, TN agencies reported 59 violent and 191 property offenses. That equals about 74 violent and 239 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
59 violent offenses
74/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Putnam County, TN
Position in the state cohort
Putnam County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Tennessee counties
At 73.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Putnam County ranks 75 of 92 — above 17 of the 91 other Tennessee counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -47.7% 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.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 100.2 per 100,000 in 2021 to 73.9 in 2024 (-26.3%). The highest observed value was 100.2 in 2021 and the lowest 73.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 23.6% of the 250 Part I offenses reported in Putnam County for 2024, against a median of 29.0% across comparable Tennessee counties — a gap of 5.4 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.
On a 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 · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
191
Burglary
47
Larceny-Theft
124
Motor Vehicle Theft
20
Arson
2
Violent Crime
59
Murder
1
Rape
9
Robbery
2
Aggravated Assault
47
Reporting Agency
Putnam County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Putnam County's crime figures on this page originate from Putnam 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.