Crime in Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Major crime in Murfreesboro is 15% below the U.S. rate per resident: 39% higher for persons crimes and 27% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 22.1% 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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Intimidation stands out most, at 3.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Murfreesboro 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 Murfreesboro
The middle half of Murfreesboro residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 26 and 105; the typical (median) resident's is 48. The citywide figure (85) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5051.0%
- 50–10020.7%
- 100–20020.4%
- 200–4006.4%
- 400+1.5%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 22.1% 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.
Murfreesboro against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
185 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Murfreesboro; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Murfreesboro has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Smyrna (10 mi), is 24% above Murfreesboro's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Murfreesboro
What are the most common crimes in Murfreesboro?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 652 a year), shoplifting (about 619 a year) and other larceny (about 593 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 3.8 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. Murfreesboro's figures add up its 71 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Murfreesboro's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 63.0% 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: 181,539. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Murfreesboro, Tennessee." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tn/murfreesboro
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Smyrna10 mi106
- La Vergne14 mi69
- Mount Juliet24 mi34
- Franklin25 mi45
- Shelbyville25 mi80
- Lebanon26 mi50
- Oak Hill26 mi64
- Nashville-Davidson27 mi223