Crime in Columbia, Tennessee
Major crime in Columbia is about the U.S. rate per resident: 29% higher for persons crimes and 9% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 15.4% 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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Simple assault stands out most, at 2.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Columbia 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 Columbia
The middle half of Columbia residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 51 and 96; the typical (median) resident's is 75. The citywide figure (98) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5024.3%
- 50–10051.1%
- 100–20018.2%
- 200–4002.4%
- 400+4.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 15.4% 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.
Columbia against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
324 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Columbia; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Columbia has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Spring Hill (13 mi), is 67% below Columbia's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Columbia
What are the most common crimes in Columbia?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 215 a year), other larceny (about 189 a year) and aggravated assault (about 171 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 2.8 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. Columbia's figures add up its 29 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Columbia has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 82.5% 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: 48,630. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Columbia, Tennessee." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tn/columbia
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Spring Hill13 mi32
- Lewisburg18 mi88
- Franklin24 mi45
- Centerville25 mi36
- Fairview26 mi35
- Hohenwald28 mi94
- Pulaski28 mi125
- Lawrenceburg29 mi69