CrimeMetric

Crime in Erwin, Tennessee

Major crime in Erwin is 68% below the U.S. rate per resident: 63% lower for persons crimes and 70% lower 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

Major crime
32
68% below the U.S. rate
68% below the Tennessee rate
down 7.5% in a year
Persons crimes
37
63% below the U.S. rate
72% below the Tennessee rate
down 3.9% in a year
Property crimes
31
70% below the U.S. rate
67% below the Tennessee rate
down 8.5% in a year
Social disorder
61
39% below the U.S. rate
53% below the Tennessee rate
down 7.4% 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

Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 1.5 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Erwin 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 Erwin

The middle half of Erwin residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 24 and 45; the typical (median) resident's is 34.

Map of Erwin, 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.
  • 0–5088.1%
  • 50–10011.9%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 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 weeknights and on weekend daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm31
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am33
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm34
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am30
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.5% in a year; across Tennessee it fell 21.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.5%TN -21.1%-13.2%TN -9.5%
Persons crimes-3.9%TN -18.4%-0.8%TN +1.7%
Property crimes-8.5%TN -21.9%-16.5%TN -13.0%
Social disorder-7.4%TN -16.6%-10.1%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

Erwin against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

1,851 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Erwin; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

El Rio, CA5,77568
Brady, TX5,77749
Ada, OH5,77544
Erwin, TN5,77732

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

Nearby places

Erwin has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Jonesborough (10 mi), is 3.0 times Erwin's rate.

Kingsport28 mi120
Elizabethton16 mi105
Johnson City12 mi101
Spurgeon20 mi50
Erwin32

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

Questions about crime in Erwin

What are the most common crimes in Erwin?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 11 a year), aggravated assault (about 6 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 5 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 1.5 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. Erwin's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Erwin has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% 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: 5,777. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100