Crime in Sparta, Tennessee
Major crime in Sparta is 55% below the U.S. rate per resident: 56% lower for persons crimes and 55% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.9% 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 Sparta 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
Neighborhoods in Sparta
Sparta is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 44; the middle half of residents live where it is between 35 and 53.
- 0–5067.0%
- 50–10033.0%
- 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.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.9% 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.
Sparta against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,496 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Sparta; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Sparta 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, Cookeville (16 mi), is 1.9 times Sparta's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Sparta
What are the most common crimes in Sparta?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 15 a year), shoplifting (about 12 a year) and aggravated assault (about 8 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. Sparta's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Sparta 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: 6,478. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Sparta, Tennessee." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/tn/sparta
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Cookeville16 mi86
- Smithville22 mi44
- Lake Tansi23 mi28
- Crossville24 mi120
- McMinnville25 mi120
- Livingston33 mi44
- Dunlap38 mi54
- Dayton39 mi47