Safest counties for violent crime rate in Tennessee

Top 25 of 95 counties with data.

Ranked by violent crime rate (FBI Crime Data Explorer (per-agency, 2018-2022 average), FBI CDE 2020-2024 avg), lowest first.

Safest counties for violent crime rate in Tennessee
Rank	County	Value
1	Cannon	50.9 per 100k
2	Clay	112.4 per 100k
3	Pickett	113.0 per 100k
4	Bledsoe	115.2 per 100k
5	Van Buren	117.0 per 100k
6	Perry	121.5 per 100k
7	Moore	142.8 per 100k
8	Wayne	156.7 per 100k
9	Williamson	159.8 per 100k
10	White	166.5 per 100k
11	Jackson	170.2 per 100k
12	Claiborne	184.8 per 100k
13	Sumner	192.3 per 100k
14	Smith	193.5 per 100k
15	Carroll	197.2 per 100k
16	Union	197.6 per 100k
17	Scott	201.3 per 100k
18	Grainger	201.5 per 100k
19	Wilson	204.7 per 100k
20	Campbell	212.9 per 100k
21	DeKalb	217.3 per 100k
22	Cumberland	220.9 per 100k
23	Washington	224.3 per 100k
24	Jefferson	225.6 per 100k
25	Loudon	233.8 per 100k

How this ranking works

This page ranks Tennessee counties by violent crime rate, sorted so the safest places appear first. Click any county to see its housing, schools, crime, and demographics in detail.

For violent crime rate, a lower value is generally more favorable, so the top of the list is the lowest. Want to weigh violent crime rate against schools, taxes, commute, and more at once? Use the live map to build a custom match.

Data comes from public sources. Source attribution and the exact data vintage are shown above and on the full map of violent crime rate.

Safest Counties (Lowest Violent Crime) in Tennessee (2026)

Safest counties for violent crime rate in Tennessee

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