County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Sullivan County, TN
At 158,163 residents, Sullivan County is a large county in Tennessee. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Sullivan County, TN reported 193 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sullivan County, TN agencies reported 305 violent and 626 property offenses. That equals about 193 violent and 396 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
305 violent offenses
193/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Sullivan County, TN
Position in the state cohort
Sullivan County sits mid-pack among comparable Tennessee counties
At 192.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sullivan County ranks 30 of 92 — above 62 of the 91 other Tennessee counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +37.8% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 70.1% of reported property offenses in Sullivan County, against a cohort median of 60.2%. The remainder is burglary (92) and motor vehicle theft (95). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 32.8% of the 931 Part I offenses reported in Sullivan County for 2024, against a median of 28.8% across comparable Tennessee counties — a gap of 4.0 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window close to where it started
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 196.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 192.8 in 2024 (-1.6%). The highest observed value was 204.9 in 2023 and the lowest 183.4 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
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
626
Burglary
92
Larceny-Theft
439
Motor Vehicle Theft
95
Arson
18
Violent Crime
305
Murder
1
Rape
41
Robbery
5
Aggravated Assault
258
Reporting Agency
Sullivan County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Sullivan County's crime figures on this page originate from Sullivan 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.