CrimeMetric

Crime in Brownsville, Tennessee

Major crime in Brownsville is 49% above the U.S. rate per resident: 2.5 times for persons crimes and 26% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.3% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
149
49% above the U.S. rate
1.5 times the Tennessee rate
down 7.3% in a year
Persons crimes
252
2.5 times the U.S. rate
1.9 times the Tennessee rate
down 3.5% in a year
Property crimes
126
26% above the U.S. rate
38% above the Tennessee rate
down 8.9% in a year
Social disorder
189
1.9 times the U.S. rate
46% above the Tennessee rate
down 5.3% in a year

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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Crime by type

Aggravated assault stands out most, at 3.0 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Brownsville for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Brownsville

The middle half of Brownsville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 104 and 177; the typical (median) resident's is 132.

Map of Brownsville, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–10016.7%
  • 100–20059.6%
  • 200–40023.8%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm162
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am132
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm149
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am151
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.3% in a year; across Tennessee it fell 21.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.3%TN -21.1%-17.1%TN -9.5%
Persons crimes-3.5%TN -18.4%-6.1%TN +1.7%
Property crimes-8.9%TN -21.9%-22.0%TN -13.0%
Social disorder-5.3%TN -16.6%-10.6%TN -3.1%

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.

Similar-size places

Brownsville against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

278 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Brownsville; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Woodbury, NJ10,187189
Brownsville, TN10,183149
Munhall, PA10,19179
Edwards, CO10,19428
Glenshaw, PA10,19127

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Brownsville has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Ripley (19 mi), is 8% above Brownsville's rate.

Bolivar27 mi211
Jackson25 mi163
Ripley19 mi161
Brownsville149
Covington22 mi129
Humboldt26 mi100
Halls21 mi89
Somerville25 mi63
Oakland29 mi33

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Brownsville

What are the most common crimes in Brownsville?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 70 a year), other larceny (about 63 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 41 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 3.0 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. Brownsville's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Brownsville's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
  • 42.0% 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: 10,183. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Brownsville, Tennessee." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tn/brownsville

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100