County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Roane County, TN
At 53,404 residents, Roane County is a large county in Tennessee. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Roane County, TN reported 73 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Roane County, TN agencies reported 39 violent and 156 property offenses. That equals about 73 violent and 292 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
39 violent offenses
73/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Roane County, TN
Position in the state cohort
Roane County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Tennessee counties
At 73.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Roane County ranks 76 of 92 — above 16 of the 91 other Tennessee counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -48.3% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 123.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 73.0 in 2024 (-40.9%). The highest observed value was 149.8 in 2021 and the lowest 73.0 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 20.0% of the 195 Part I offenses reported in Roane County for 2024, against a median of 29.0% across comparable Tennessee counties — a gap of 9.0 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
156
Burglary
22
Larceny-Theft
102
Motor Vehicle Theft
32
Arson
2
Violent Crime
39
Murder
3
Rape
4
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
32
Reporting Agency
Roane County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Roane County's crime figures on this page originate from Roane 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.