22 separately incorporated cities in the Nashville area, each policed by its own department and each reporting its own 2024 figures to the FBI.
These are cities, not neighborhoods. Every row is a separately incorporated municipality with its own police department reporting its own figures. This page does not rank areas within any of them, and none of these figures describes a neighborhood, a street or an address.
| Rank | City | Violent rate | Property rate | Population |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pleasant View | 35.0 | 297.8 | 5,709 |
| 2 | Nolensville | 50.2 | 207.2 | 15,930 |
| 3 | Brentwood | 57.5 | 730.0 | 45,208 |
| 4 | Ashland City | 104.7 | 1,099.9 | 5,728 |
| 5 | Fairview | 123.9 | 466.8 | 10,496 |
| 6 | Hendersonville | 124.8 | 714.2 | 64,126 |
| 7 | Goodlettsville | 127.1 | 895.3 | 17,312 |
| 8 | Franklin | 133.2 | 942.5 | 90,077 |
| 9 | Mount Juliet | 158.9 | 964.8 | 44,049 |
| 10 | Spring Hill | 163.5 | 499.0 | 59,921 |
| 11 | Gallatin | 210.1 | 748.9 | 52,346 |
| 12 | White House | 234.9 | 735.6 | 16,177 |
| 13 | Millersville | 238.3 | 460.7 | 6,295 |
| 14 | Smyrna | 279.0 | 2,386.4 | 58,791 |
| 15 | Lebanon | 346.5 | 1,033.8 | 51,653 |
| 16 | Portland | 372.2 | 459.8 | 13,703 |
| 17 | Springfield | 390.3 | 917.4 | 19,729 |
| 18 | Murfreesboro | 421.2 | 2,022.2 | 169,520 |
| 19 | Dickson | 471.1 | 2,326.3 | 16,980 |
| 20 | La Vergne | 476.2 | 1,834.7 | 39,897 |
| 21 | Columbia | 573.2 | 2,487.1 | 49,374 |
| 22 | Nashville | 1,124.1 | 4,509.5 | 698,987 |
The places above are commonly called suburbs of Nashville, but each is a municipality in its own right. That distinction is what makes the comparison possible: because each has its own reporting agency, each has its own figure. An area inside Nashville's city limits has no separate figure and does not appear here.
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SafeNest. Nashville Metro Safety by City (2024 FBI Data) | SafeNest. Published 2026-08-17. Data: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program, 2024 reporting year. https://safenest.lol/nashville-metro-safety-by-suburb.html
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