Crime in Memphis, Tennessee
Major crime in Memphis is 2.7 times the U.S. rate per resident: 4.2 times for persons crimes and 2.3 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 33.0% 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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Murder stands out most, at 5.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Memphis 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 Memphis
The middle half of Memphis residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 131 and 321; the typical (median) resident's is 216. The citywide figure (266) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–502.7%
- 50–10011.6%
- 100–20031.9%
- 200–40037.7%
- 400+16.1%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 33.0% 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.
Memphis against U.S. places with 500,000 to 1 million residents
5 of the 25 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Memphis; the middle of the group is 190. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Memphis 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, Germantown (9 mi), is 73% below Memphis's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Memphis
What are the most common crimes in Memphis?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 6,789 a year), shoplifting (about 5,077 a year) and other larceny (about 4,138 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 5.4 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. Memphis's figures add up its 515 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Memphis has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 99.0% 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: 614,042. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Memphis, Tennessee." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tn/memphis
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Germantown9 mi72
- Bartlett10 mi52
- Southaven, MS12 mi98
- Olive Branch, MS12 mi69
- Horn Lake, MS13 mi81
- West Memphis, AR14 mi283
- Lakeland14 mi60
- Collierville14 mi50