City Population Violent / 100K Property / 100K Grade
Halls 2,037 245.5 1,276.4 B
Greenfield 2,013 496.8 745.2 C
Spring City 1,950 0 615.4 A+
Pikeville 1,899 105.3 1,474.5 A
Chapel Hill 1,898 0 368.8 A+
Bluff City 1,846 433.4 1,679.3 C
Berry Hill 1,762 397.3 6,810.4 D
McEwen 1,740 402.3 1,034.5 C
Vonore 1,694 590.3 1,593.9 D
Decatur 1,651 302.8 2,301.6 C
Rocky Top 1,642 1,522.5 3,593.2 F
Kimball 1,626 61.5 3,444 B
Watertown 1,622 185 1,233 B
South Carthage 1,611 124.1 310.4 A
Whitwell 1,602 249.7 1,248.4 B
Englewood 1,578 63.4 443.6 A+
Spencer 1,566 127.7 638.6 A
Tracy City 1,446 484.1 1,452.3 D
Benton 1,421 211.1 492.6 A
Celina 1,393 0 861.5 A+
Gordonsville 1,383 433.8 578.5 C
Ardmore 1,230 325.2 3,821.1 D
Red Boiling Springs 1,217 903.9 328.7 D
Erin 1,179 0 339.3 A+
Charleston 901 444 887.9 C
Tellico Plains 781 1,024.3 4,737.5 F
Showing cities 151–176 of 176 in Tennessee, by population. See the Tennessee safest and most dangerous city rankings, or the Tennessee crime overview.

How These City Grades Are Calculated

Each grade weighs a city's violent crime rate (70%) and property crime rate (30%) against the national averages, drawn from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States, Table 8 for 2024. Rates use (offenses ÷ population) × 100,000.

UCR participation is voluntary, so not every Tennessee city reports every year, and small-population cities can show volatile rates where a single incident moves the per-capita figure sharply. Read the full methodology for the scoring formula and limitations.