County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Rutherford County, TN
At 341,486 residents, Rutherford County is a very large county in Tennessee. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Rutherford County, TN reported 72 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Rutherford County, TN agencies reported 244 violent and 428 property offenses. That equals about 72 violent and 125 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
244 violent offenses
72/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Rutherford County, TN
Position in the state cohort
Rutherford County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Tennessee counties
At 71.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Rutherford County ranks 80 of 92 — above 12 of the 91 other Tennessee counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -49.4% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 36.3% of the 672 Part I offenses reported in Rutherford County for 2024, against a median of 28.8% across comparable Tennessee counties — a gap of 7.5 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 64.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 71.5 in 2024 (+11.4%). The highest observed value was 83.8 in 2022 and the lowest 64.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a very 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 · very large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
428
Burglary
73
Larceny-Theft
289
Motor Vehicle Theft
66
Arson
0
Violent Crime
244
Murder
0
Rape
24
Robbery
2
Aggravated Assault
218
Reporting Agency
Rutherford County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Rutherford County's crime figures on this page originate from Rutherford 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.