CrimeMetric

Crime in Oliver Springs, Tennessee

Major crime in Oliver Springs is 54% below the U.S. rate per resident: 51% lower for persons crimes and 55% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.3% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
46
54% below the U.S. rate
53% below the Tennessee rate
down 12.3% in a year
Persons crimes
50
51% below the U.S. rate
62% below the Tennessee rate
down 11.0% in a year
Property crimes
46
55% below the U.S. rate
50% below the Tennessee rate
down 12.6% in a year
Social disorder
170
1.7 times the U.S. rate
31% above the Tennessee rate
down 9.7% 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 4.9 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Oliver Springs for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Oliver Springs

Oliver Springs is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 45; the middle half of residents live where it is between 40 and 58.

Map of Oliver Springs, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5074.4%
  • 50–10025.6%
  • 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 weekend daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm49
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am44
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm51
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am37
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 12.3% in a year; across Tennessee it fell 21.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-12.3%TN -21.1%-9.5%TN -9.5%
Persons crimes-11.0%TN -18.4%+3.2%TN +1.7%
Property crimes-12.6%TN -21.9%-12.6%TN -13.0%
Social disorder-9.7%TN -16.6%-6.4%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

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

1,467 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Oliver Springs; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Baxley, GA5,005136
Oliver Springs, TN5,01046

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

Nearby places

Oliver Springs has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Oak Ridge (3 mi), is 1.7 times Oliver Springs's rate.

Harriman15 mi105
Clinton11 mi83
Oak Ridge3 mi80
Farragut13 mi65
Powell16 mi61
Oliver Springs46
Louisville20 mi35
Kingston15 mi24

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

Questions about crime in Oliver Springs

What are the most common crimes in Oliver Springs?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 13 a year), shoplifting (about 7 a year) and aggravated assault (about 6 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 4.9 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. Oliver Springs's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Oliver Springs 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: 5,010. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Oliver Springs, Tennessee." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tn/oliver-springs

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100