Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in Nashville (2024)
Nashville's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these MNPD precincts are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The MNPD precincts at the top of this list have the most reported incidents relative to other Nashville MNPD precincts.
Volume, not a safety rate. MNPD precinct resident population is not reliably available for a per-100k rate, so no safety grade is published (see /crime-rate/methodology §6.6). Incidents are placed by a SPATIAL JOIN of each mapped incident point to its MNPD precinct boundary. relativeIndex ranks each zone by its VIOLENCE-WEIGHTED reported-incident volume (violent weighted 3x property) against the other Nashville zones — NOT population-adjusted. Offenses are grouped into violent / property / other from their NIBRS offense codes.
Ranked highest reported volume first
Not the same MNPD precincts as the safest neighborhoods in nashville list.
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A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2024. See the full methodology →