Crime in Tennessee (2024)
Tennessee agencies reported 190,530 offenses to the FBI in 2024: 42,732 violent crimes, 146,968 property crimes and 830 arsons, across 370 reporting agencies.
Per 100,000 residents
Against a 2024 population of 7,251,291 (Census estimates). A floor: Tennessee agencies that did not report contribute nothing.
Offenses by category
| Offense | Offenses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Murder & nonnegligent manslaughter | 572 | 0.3% |
| Rape | 2,701 | 1.4% |
| Robbery | 4,221 | 2.2% |
| Aggravated assault | 35,238 | 18.5% |
| Burglary | 18,503 | 9.7% |
| Larceny-theft | 104,165 | 54.7% |
| Motor vehicle theft | 24,300 | 12.8% |
| Arson | 830 | 0.4% |
By county
Counties with sufficient reporting coverage (95 of Tennessee's counties).
- Anderson County
- Bedford County
- Benton County
- Bledsoe County
- Blount County
- Bradley County
- Campbell County
- Cannon County
- Carroll County
- Carter County
- Cheatham County
- Chester County
- Claiborne County
- Clay County
- Cocke County
- Coffee County
- Crockett County
- Cumberland County
- Davidson County
- Decatur County
- DeKalb County
- Dickson County
- Dyer County
- Fayette County
- Fentress County
- Franklin County
- Gibson County
- Giles County
- Grainger County
- Greene County
- Grundy County
- Hamblen County
- Hamilton County
- Hancock County
- Hardeman County
- Hardin County
- Hawkins County
- Haywood County
- Henderson County
- Henry County
- Hickman County
- Houston County
- Humphreys County
- Jackson County
- Jefferson County
- Johnson County
- Knox County
- Lake County
- Lauderdale County
- Lawrence County
- Lewis County
- Lincoln County
- Loudon County
- Macon County
- Madison County
- Marion County
- Marshall County
- Maury County
- McMinn County
- McNairy County
- Meigs County
- Monroe County
- Montgomery County
- Moore County
- Morgan County
- Obion County
- Overton County
- Perry County
- Pickett County
- Polk County
- Putnam County
- Rhea County
- Roane County
- Robertson County
- Rutherford County
- Scott County
- Sequatchie County
- Sevier County
- Shelby County
- Smith County
- Stewart County
- Sullivan County
- Sumner County
- Tipton County
- Trousdale County
- Unicoi County
- Union County
- Van Buren County
- Warren County
- Washington County
- Wayne County
- Weakley County
- White County
- Williamson County
- Wilson County
Largest reporting agencies
| Agency | Violent | Property | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memphis Police Department | 15,338 | 42,305 | 57,986 |
| Nashville Metropolitan Police Department | 7,857 | 31,521 | 39,432 |
| Chattanooga Police Department | 1,556 | 7,447 | 9,027 |
| Knoxville Police Department | 1,484 | 5,455 | 6,948 |
| Murfreesboro Police Department | 712 | 3,428 | 4,143 |
| Clarksville Police Department | 760 | 3,025 | 3,803 |
| Shelby County Sheriff's Office | 630 | 2,660 | 3,305 |
| Jackson Police Department | 649 | 2,158 | 2,815 |
| Knox County Sheriff's Office | 555 | 2,126 | 2,687 |
| Johnson City Police Department | 298 | 1,706 | 2,009 |
| Kingsport Police Department | 252 | 1,691 | 1,951 |
| Smyrna Police Department | 164 | 1,403 | 1,569 |
| Columbia Police Department | 283 | 1,228 | 1,512 |
| Cleveland Police Department | 224 | 1,180 | 1,412 |
| Morristown Police Department | 250 | 807 | 1,062 |
How to read these numbers
Counts are offenses reported by law-enforcement agencies to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program for 2024(Return A master file, which incorporates the FBI's own NIBRS-to-SRS conversion for agencies that report incident-based data). Nothing here is estimated: an agency that did not report contributes nothing, so totals are floors, not universes.
County figures use headquarters-county assignment: an agency's offenses count in the county where it is headquartered. Sheriff and state-police activity can span county lines; a county's figure is best read as "offenses reported by agencies based here." Counties where reporting agencies cover less than half of the policed population get no page; between 50% and 80% the page carries a visible partial-coverage notice.
Rates per 100,000 residentsuse Census Population Estimates (PEP) for the same year as the crime data. They appear only where the population served by agencies headquartered in a county is within 10% of the population that lives there. Where a police force covers several counties — the NYPD polices five boroughs from its Manhattan headquarters — the two geographies disagree, and a rate would be wrong by several times over in both directions. Those counties show counts without a rate rather than a number that looks authoritative and isn't.
Because non-reporting agencies contribute nothing, every rate here is a floor: the true rate is at least this high. Rates are most comparable between places with similar reporting coverage, which each page states.
Violent crime = murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault. Property crime = burglary + larceny-theft + motor vehicle theft. Arson is tracked separately (from the FBI's de-duplicated SRS/NIBRS arson data) and is excluded from the property composite, following FBI practice. Aggravated assault excludes simple assault.
These figures will not match the FBI's published national estimates(which impute for non-reporting agencies) or the 12-month quarterly trend windows elsewhere on this site — different universes, both documented.