Crime in Bristol, Tennessee
Major crime in Bristol is 16% above the U.S. rate per resident: 5% higher for persons crimes and 19% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are about flat 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 4.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Bristol 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 Bristol
The middle half of Bristol residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 48 and 124; the typical (median) resident's is 86. The citywide figure (116) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5034.3%
- 50–10029.3%
- 100–20024.7%
- 200–4007.1%
- 400+4.6%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 0.2% 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.
Bristol against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
235 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Bristol; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Bristol has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Bristol (3 mi), is 1.5 times Bristol's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Bristol
What are the most common crimes in Bristol?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 138 a year), shoplifting (about 128 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 75 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 4.2 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. Bristol's figures add up its 20 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Bristol's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 39.9% 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: 25,598. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Bristol, Tennessee." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tn/bristol
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