Crime in Powell, Tennessee
Major crime in Powell is 39% below the U.S. rate per resident: 31% lower for persons crimes and 41% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.2% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 1.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Powell 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 Powell
The middle half of Powell residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 29 and 86; the typical (median) resident's is 61.
- 0–5042.0%
- 50–10049.9%
- 100–2008.1%
- 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.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 12.2% 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.
Powell against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,269 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Powell; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Powell has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Knoxville (6 mi), is 2.0 times Powell's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Powell
What are the most common crimes in Powell?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 49 a year), aggravated assault (about 25 a year) and shoplifting (about 23 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 1.6 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. Powell's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Powell has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 67.0% 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: 14,319. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Powell, Tennessee." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tn/powell
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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