Crime in Athens, Tennessee
Major crime in Athens is 1.5 times the U.S. rate per resident: 19% higher for persons crimes and 1.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.9% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 4.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Athens for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Athens
The middle half of Athens residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 80 and 158; the typical (median) resident's is 131.
- 0–5024.1%
- 50–10017.5%
- 100–20039.7%
- 200–40012.0%
- 400+6.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
About the same at every time of week
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.9% in a year; across Tennessee it fell 21.1%
Change in expected crimes, with Tennessee as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Athens against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
253 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Athens; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Athens has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Etowah (9 mi), is 72% below Athens's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Athens
What are the most common crimes in Athens?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 143 a year), other larceny (about 127 a year) and aggravated assault (about 49 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 4.1 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Athens's figures add up its 13 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Athens has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 31.2% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 16,536. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Athens, Tennessee." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tn/athens
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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