Photo: Ichabod · CC BY-SA 3.0Reported crime per resident in Franklin fell 27% from 2023 to 2025
Overall, Franklin grades B for safety (#29 of 129 graded towns in Tennessee): close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported to the FBI in 2023–2025.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of TN” is every other Tennessee city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Franklin
1 of the 1 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 2 Tennessee towns on Franklin’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Brentwood (B+). Thompson's Station has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
Among Tennessee towns, higher
Tennessee’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Franklin’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 78% of the 129 Tennessee towns we grade, against 59% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Franklin has 85,972 jobs based in town for 90,226 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Franklin’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are lower than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the stronger of the two.
Reported crime is falling
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Tennessee.
Show as a table
| Year | Franklin property | Rest of Tennessee property | Franklin violent | Rest of Tennessee violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10.3 | 34.1 | 2.0 | 9.2 |
| 2023 | 10.2 | 35.9 | 1.5 | 9.2 |
| 2024 | 9.4 | 31.1 | 1.3 | 8.7 |
| 2025 | 6.9 | 24.7 | 1.7 | 7.0 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Violent crime, by year and by type
Franklin’s police reported 406 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.5 per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.3 in the rest of Tennessee and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Show as a table
| Year | Franklin | Rest of Tennessee | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.0 | 9.2 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.5 | 9.2 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.3 | 8.7 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.7 | 7.0 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
For every 1,000 residents, about 7 property crimes reported
And about 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
777 crimes reported in 2025
155 violent and 622 property, as reported to the FBI by Franklin’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
19 people died in crashes on Franklin’s roads in 2019–2023
Franklin had 18 fatal crashes in five years, in which 19 people died; 1 was a pedestrian and 1 was a cyclist. 9 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is 4.4 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for Tennessee towns of 25,000–100,000 people (9.6, 22 towns).
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Franklin and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin | B | 1.5 | 8.8 |
| Brentwood | B+ | 0.7 | 7.6 |
| Thompson's Station | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Thompson's Station has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Tennessee towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin | B | 1.5 | 8.8 |
| Spring Hill | B+ | 1.5 | 5.5 |
| Hendersonville | B+ | 1.2 | 7.4 |
| Smyrna | C− | 3.0 | 22.0 |
| Johnson City | C− | 4.0 | 24.1 |
| Jackson | D− | 9.2 | 30.5 |
The five graded Tennessee towns closest to Franklin’s population (90,226), by grade.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Franklin. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Franklin’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (90,436 in 2025); our figure for Franklin is 90,226 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Franklin
Is Franklin, TN safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Franklin reports less crime per resident than 59% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #29 of 129 in Tennessee. Its police reported 1.5 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.3 in the rest of Tennessee and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Franklin?
1.5 violent and 8.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Tennessee reports 8.3 and 30.5; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Franklin?
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
How many homicides were there in Franklin in 2025?
Franklin’s police reported 2 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 2.2 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Franklin safer than Brentwood?
Brentwood reports less crime per resident than Franklin: Brentwood grades B+ for safety and Franklin B. Brentwood’s police reported 0.7 violent and 7.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Franklin?
Franklin’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Franklin”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.