State crime profile · 2024

Tennessee Crime Rates: Safest & Most Dangerous Cities

Crime data for 176 cities and 92 of 95 counties in Tennessee (TN), ranked safest to most dangerous from 412 reporting agencies.

Data updated 2026-09-05

601.6
Violent / 100K
2,057.9
Property / 100K
176
Cities
92
Counties

Tennessee violent crime is 601.6 per 100,000, 71% above the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Tennessee records 601.6 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, 71% above the national average (about the 48th-safest of 51 states and D.C.). Statewide averages hide city and county variation; UCR participation is voluntary.

  • 601.6 violent crimes per 100K
  • +71% vs. the U.S. average
  • 48th safest of 51 states & DC
  • 2,057.9 property crimes per 100K

How safe is Tennessee? FBI UCR data snapshot

Tennessee (TN) reported 43,481 violent crimes and 148,740 property crimes in 2024, based on FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program submissions from 412 law enforcement agencies. That translates to a statewide violent crime rate of 601.6 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 2057.9 per 100,000 against a reporting population of 7,227,750. The PlainCrime dataset indexes 176 Tennessee cities and 92 counties, each with their own detail pages and local crime figures drawn from FBI UCR Tables 8 and 10.

The FBI's state-level summary reports violent and property crime as aggregate totals rather than broken out by individual offense type (murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, arson). For an offense-by-offense breakdown, see the individual city and county pages for Tennessee below, which draw on FBI UCR Tables 8 and 10 and do report each offense type separately.

Across 11 years of state-level UCR history (2014–2024), the violent crime rate moved from 608.4 to 601.6 per 100,000, a decline of 1.1%. City-level detail pages within Tennessee include safety grades (A+ to F), benchmarks against national averages, per-capita risk estimates, and multi-year trend tables for users comparing specific jurisdictions. All figures above are drawn from FBI UCR 2024 submissions; reporting completeness varies by agency, and the FBI periodically restates prior-year figures as late submissions arrive.

How Tennessee ranks nationally

Tennessee vs. every U.S. state

Violent crime per 100,000 residents, FBI UCR 2024. Lower is safer.

602 6th percentile among 51 U.S. states

TN 0 1,100+ every state & DC, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band of values; taller bars hold more U.S. states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · 2024

Safest cities · Most dangerous cities · Crime trends

Crime Trends

Year Population Violent Crime Rate Property Crime Rate
2024 7,227,750 43,481 601.6 148,740 2057.9
2023 7,126,489 45,901 644.1 170,713 2395.5
2022 7,051,339 44,900 636.8 165,143 2342
2021 6,975,218 46,927 672.8 158,047 2265.8
2020 6,886,834 46,976 682.1 174,437 2532.9
2019 6,829,174 41,367 605.7 183,419 2685.8
2018 6,770,010 42,831 632.7 194,274 2869.6
2017 6,715,984 44,022 655.5 199,158 2965.4
2016 6,651,194 42,674 641.6 192,873 2899.8
2015 6,600,299 40,811 618.3 196,950 2984
2014 6,549,352 39,843 608.4 201,042 3069.6

Cities in Tennessee

Safest cities in Tennessee

Cities with 25,000+ residents, lowest violent crime per 100,000, FBI UCR 2024. Hover a bar for the exact rate.

/100K

What this shows Brentwood is the safest sizeable city in Tennessee, at 57.5 violent crimes per 100,000.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024

Highest violent-crime cities in Tennessee

Cities with 25,000+ residents, highest violent crime per 100,000, FBI UCR 2024. Hover a bar for the exact rate.

/100K

What this shows Memphis reports the highest big-city violent-crime rate in Tennessee, at 2,501.3 per 100,000.

Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024

Memphis is both volume #1 and rate #1 among 29 Tennessee cities with 25,000+ residents in FBI UCR 2024. That non-invert is disclosed, not hidden.

Tennessee's largest cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 14 cities; the anchor is ringed. Tennessee's largest cities, violent vs. property crime 111 2,701 Violent crime per 100K → 449 7,451 Property crime per 100K → Metropolitan Na… Memphis Knoxville Chattanooga SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME PROPERTY-HEAVY VIOLENT-HEAVY Safety grade A / B C D / F
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are Tennessee's statewide averages · the four largest cities are labeled
Read the chart as a list
  • Metropolitan Nashville Police Department: 1124 violent, 4510 property per 100,000 (grade F)
  • Memphis: 2501 violent, 6899 property per 100,000 (grade F)
  • Knoxville: 740 violent, 2721 property per 100,000 (grade F)
  • Chattanooga: 824 violent, 3942 property per 100,000 (grade F)
  • Clarksville: 410 violent, 1632 property per 100,000 (grade C)
  • Murfreesboro: 420 violent, 2022 property per 100,000 (grade C)
  • Franklin: 132 violent, 943 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Johnson City: 402 violent, 2303 property per 100,000 (grade C)
  • Jackson: 950 violent, 3160 property per 100,000 (grade F)
  • Hendersonville: 123 violent, 714 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Spring Hill: 164 violent, 499 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Smyrna: 279 violent, 2386 property per 100,000 (grade C)
  • Kingsport: 441 violent, 2960 property per 100,000 (grade D)
  • Bartlett: 251 violent, 1283 property per 100,000 (grade B)
F

Tennessee safety livability score: 12/100

Percentile-benchmarked against all 51 tracked states, 2024 FBI UCR data.

  • Violent crime rate

    601.6/100K · F (6th percentile)

  • Property crime rate

    2057.9/100K · F (20th percentile)

  • Murder rate

    N/A, dropped from score, weight redistributed

City Population Violent / 100K Grade
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department 698,987
1,124.1
F
Memphis 613,207
2,501.3
F
Knoxville 200,457
740.3
F
Chattanooga 188,894
823.7
F
Clarksville 185,349
410
C
Murfreesboro 169,520
420
C
Franklin 90,077
132.1
A
Johnson City 74,093
402.2
C
Jackson 68,286
950.4
F
Hendersonville 64,126
123.2
A
Spring Hill 59,921
163.5
A
Smyrna 58,791
279
C
Kingsport 57,138
441
D
Bartlett 55,494
250.5
B
Gallatin 52,346
208.2
B
Lebanon 51,653
344.6
C
Collierville 51,312
150.1
B
Cleveland 49,482
452.7
D
Columbia 49,374
573.2
F
Brentwood 45,208
57.5
A
Mount Juliet 44,049
158.9
A
Germantown 39,938
167.8
B
La Vergne 39,897
476.2
D
Cookeville 37,248
292.6
C
Oak Ridge 34,071
290.6
B
Morristown 32,660
765.5
F
Maryville 32,583
132
A
Bristol 28,082
363.2
C
Shelbyville 25,655
432.7
C
East Ridge 21,886
411.2
C
Tullahoma 21,208
391.4
C
Springfield 19,729
390.3
C
Sevierville 18,084
436.9
D
Goodlettsville 17,312
127.1
A
Dickson 16,980
465.3
D
White House 16,177
234.9
B
Nolensville 15,930
50.2
A+
Dyersburg 15,917
1,256.5
F
Greeneville 15,866
258.4
C
Athens 14,949
622.1
F
Alcoa 14,270
385.4
C
Elizabethton 14,228
147.6
B
McMinnville 13,787
638.3
F
Portland 13,703
372.2
C
Manchester 13,626
653.2
F
Lewisburg 13,406
716.1
F
Soddy-Daisy 13,281
165.7
A
Crossville 12,842
646.3
F
Lenoir City 12,354
348.1
C
Red Bank 12,113
396.3
C
Lawrenceburg 12,110
322
C
Millington 11,785
602.5
F
Collegedale 11,599
17.2
A+
Martin 11,059
298.4
B
Oakland 11,026
72.6
A
Union City 10,887
698.1
F
Atoka 10,777
176.3
A
Fairview 10,496
123.9
A
Clinton 10,430
450.6
D
Paris 10,360
164.1
B
Winchester 10,177
373.4
C
Brownsville 9,264
1,036.3
F
Signal Mountain 8,935
89.5
A
Jefferson City 8,877
292.9
C
Covington 8,537
1,112.8
F
Milan 8,331
564.2
D
Pulaski 8,243
461
D
Lexington 8,000
412.5
C
Humboldt 7,828
574.9
D
Ripley 7,575
1,742.6
F
Dayton 7,465
241.1
B
Savannah 7,344
694.4
F
Church Hill 7,311
27.4
A+
La Follette 7,187
320
B
Fayetteville 7,042
1,150.2
F
Newport 7,010
684.7
F
Greenbrier 6,949
158.3
A
Munford 6,901
449.2
C
Loudon 6,876
160
A
Sweetwater 6,696
343.5
C
Jonesborough 6,684
149.6
B
Henderson 6,441
186.3
A
Pigeon Forge 6,344
788.1
F
Kingston 6,306
126.9
A
Millersville 6,295
238.3
B
Harriman 6,246
480.3
F
Dunlap 5,959
167.8
B
Lafayette 5,923
118.2
B
Ashland City 5,728
104.7
A
Pleasant View 5,709
35
A+
Rockwood 5,698
579.2
F
Medina 5,654
176.9
A
McKenzie 5,603
285.6
B
Smithville 5,514
399
C
Madisonville 5,379
371.8
C
Bolivar 5,119
1,269.8
F
Sparta 4,887
122.8
B
Mount Pleasant 4,830
269.2
B
Coopertown 4,770
125.8
A
Rogersville 4,623
151.4
B
Showing the 100 largest of 176 reporting cities. Browse all 176 cities → Or see the safest and most dangerous rankings.

Counties in Tennessee

92 of 95 Census county-equivalents (96.8%) appear in FBI Table 10 for this vintage. Missing counties are absent from the FBI source for this year, not dropped by PlainCrime. See national county coverage and methodology.

Largest counties in Tennessee, violent crime per 100K

Top 8 counties by population, violent crime per 100,000 residents. Hover a bar for the exact rate.

/100K
Source FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program As of 2024
Anderson
Bedford
Benton
Bledsoe
Blount
Bradley
Campbell
Cannon
Carroll
Carter
Cheatham
Chester
Clay
Cocke
Coffee
Crockett
Cumberland
Decatur
DeKalb
Dickson
Dyer
Fayette
Fentress
Franklin
Gibson
Giles
Grainger
Greene
Grundy
Hamblen
Hamilton
Hancock
Hardeman
Hardin
Hartsville/Trousdale
Hawkins
Haywood
Henderson
Henry
Hickman
Houston
Humphreys
Jackson
Jefferson
Johnson
Knox
Lake
Lauderdale
Lawrence
Lewis
Lincoln
Loudon
Macon
Madison
Marion
Marshall
Maury
McMinn
McNairy
Meigs
Monroe
Montgomery
Moore
Morgan
Obion
Overton
Perry
Polk
Putnam
Rhea
Roane
Robertson
Rutherford
Scott
Sequatchie
Sevier
Shelby
Smith
Stewart
Sullivan
Sumner
Tipton
Unicoi
Union
Van Buren
Warren
Washington
Wayne
Weakley
White
Williamson
Wilson

Nationwide peers for Tennessee

Similar violent rate (~601.6/100K)

Similar property rate (~2,057.9/100K)

Nearby States

South Carolina
SC
South Dakota
SD
Texas
TX
Utah
UT
Vermont
VT

Safest cities · Most dangerous · Trends · National rankings · Crime grades · Compare · Methodology

Primary source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States annual release. State-level trends cross-check against the FBI Crime Data Explorer (CDE) API.

Population figures for rate calculations reference U.S. Census Bureau estimates where FBI-reported populations are unavailable. Verify with Census.gov QuickFacts.

Read our methodology , how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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