County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Shelby County, TN
At 929,744 residents, Shelby 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).
Shelby County, TN reported 68 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Shelby County, TN agencies reported 630 violent and 2,660 property offenses. That equals about 68 violent and 286 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
630 violent offenses
68/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Shelby County, TN
Position in the state cohort
Shelby County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Tennessee counties
At 67.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Shelby County ranks 82 of 92 — above 10 of the 91 other Tennessee counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -52.1% 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
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 19.1% of the 3,290 Part I offenses reported in Shelby County for 2024, against a median of 29.0% across comparable Tennessee counties — a gap of 9.9 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 84.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 67.8 in 2024 (-19.6%). The highest observed value was 84.3 in 2020 and the lowest 65.6 in 2023. 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
2,660
Burglary
346
Larceny-Theft
1,556
Motor Vehicle Theft
758
Arson
15
Violent Crime
630
Murder
11
Rape
43
Robbery
46
Aggravated Assault
530
Reporting Agency
Shelby County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Shelby County's crime figures on this page originate from Shelby 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.