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Tennessee Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing Tennessee cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.

Cities ranked
57
Supported Tennessee cities with tract-backed crime context.
Leaderboard

Current order from the latest data

Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.

#PlaceMetric
1 Memphis
Violent Crime has increased 7% since 2021.
17.4 / 1k
2 Dyersburg
Violent Crime has increased 7% since 2021.
11.5 / 1k
3 Pigeon Forge
Violent Crime has increased 8% since 2021.
9.5 / 1k
4 Covington
Violent Crime has declined 7% since 2021.
9.0 / 1k
5 Jackson
Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2021.
7.8 / 1k
6 Chattanooga
Violent Crime has declined 39% since 2021.
7.2 / 1k
7 Knoxville
Violent Crime has declined 6% since 2021.
6.6 / 1k
8 Mcminnville
Violent Crime has declined 16% since 2021.
6.5 / 1k
9 Gatlinburg
Violent Crime has declined 27% since 2021.
6.1 / 1k
10 Millington
Violent Crime has declined 38% since 2021.
5.8 / 1k
11 Morristown
Violent Crime has declined 12% since 2021.
5.8 / 1k
12 Athens
Violent Crime has increased 2% since 2021.
5.2 / 1k
13 Manchester
Violent Crime has declined 28% since 2021.
4.9 / 1k
14 Columbia
Violent Crime has declined 8% since 2021.
4.5 / 1k
15 Dickson
Violent Crime has declined 35% since 2021.
4.5 / 1k
16 Shelbyville
Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021.
4.5 / 1k
17 Cleveland
Violent Crime has declined 35% since 2021.
4.3 / 1k
18 Johnson City
Violent Crime has increased 14% since 2021.
4.1 / 1k
19 Kingsport
Violent Crime has declined 39% since 2021.
4.1 / 1k
20 Murfreesboro
Violent Crime has increased 6% since 2021.
3.8 / 1k
21 La Vergne
Violent Crime has increased 27% since 2021.
3.8 / 1k
22 Clarksville
Violent Crime has declined 26% since 2021.
3.7 / 1k
23 Tullahoma
Violent Crime has declined 37% since 2021.
3.6 / 1k
24 Red Bank
Violent Crime has increased 21% since 2021.
3.5 / 1k
25 Springfield
Violent Crime has declined 15% since 2021.
3.5 / 1k
Research notes

How to read this ranking

Research note

What this ranking means

This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Tennessee cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.

Research note

What this ranking can miss

A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.