Crime in Dickson, Tennessee
Major crime in Dickson is 30% above the U.S. rate per resident: 20% higher for persons crimes and 33% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.5% 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 6.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Dickson 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 Dickson
The middle half of Dickson residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 59 and 163; the typical (median) resident's is 116.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10048.7%
- 100–20030.8%
- 200–40020.5%
- 400+0.0%
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 fell 7.5% 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.
Dickson against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
385 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Dickson; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Dickson 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, Fairview (15 mi), is 73% below Dickson's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Dickson
What are the most common crimes in Dickson?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 133 a year), other larceny (about 66 a year) and aggravated assault (about 41 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 6.6 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. Dickson's figures add up its 9 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Dickson has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 10.1% 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: 13,649. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Dickson, Tennessee." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tn/dickson
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Fairview15 mi35
- Centerville20 mi36
- Waverly22 mi47
- Franklin31 mi45
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- Spring Hill34 mi32
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