Crime in Jefferson City, Tennessee
Major crime in Jefferson City is 1.6 times the U.S. rate per resident: 18% lower for persons crimes and 1.7 times 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
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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 5.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Jefferson City 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 Jefferson City
The middle half of Jefferson City residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 72 and 244; the typical (median) resident's is 106. The citywide figure (157) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10040.9%
- 100–20016.2%
- 200–40042.9%
- 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 7.3% 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.
Jefferson City against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
236 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Jefferson City; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Jefferson City has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Morristown (12 mi), is 35% below Jefferson City's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Jefferson City
What are the most common crimes in Jefferson City?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 110 a year), other larceny (about 36 a year) and aggravated assault (about 15 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 5.1 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. Jefferson City's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Jefferson City 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: 6,839. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Jefferson City, Tennessee." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tn/jefferson-city
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Morristown12 mi102
- Mascot16 mi60
- Sevierville19 mi148
- Newport20 mi101
- Seymour23 mi28
- Halls25 mi73
- Knoxville28 mi123
- Powell31 mi61