Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 3.0Harriman has more violent crime per resident than 87% of U.S. towns
On crimes Harriman’s police reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades D for safety: #98 of 129 graded towns in Tennessee. Annual rates stand at 4.8 violent crimes and 24.0 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 8.2 and 30.1 in the rest of Tennessee.
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 Harriman
Harriman reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 2 Tennessee towns on Harriman’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Rockwood (D). Midtown is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own. Neighbors ↓
A college town
Harriman is home to Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Harriman, with 719 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 2% of residents are enrolled in college (Census). Students who live in town count as residents, so they are part of the per-resident rate. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Harriman’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 higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Crime in Harriman per 1,000 residents
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.
And about 6 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Harriman | Rest of Tennessee | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.0 | 9.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 3.4 | 9.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 4.8 | 8.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 6.0 | 6.9 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Harriman’s police reported 89 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 4.8 per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.2 in the rest of Tennessee and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Harriman property | Rest of Tennessee property | Harriman violent | Rest of Tennessee violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 16.5 | 33.6 | 1.0 | 9.1 |
| 2023 | 20.9 | 35.4 | 3.4 | 9.1 |
| 2024 | 35.9 | 30.6 | 4.8 | 8.5 |
| 2025 | 15.3 | 24.4 | 6.0 | 6.9 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Tennessee.
134 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
38 violent and 96 property, as reported to the FBI by Harriman’s police.
Five people died in crashes on Harriman’s roads in 2019–2023
Harriman had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died; 1 was a cyclist. 1 died in crash on an Interstate.
That is about what is typical for Tennessee towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (9.4 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Harriman’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Harriman’s own rate (16.4) is context, not a ranking.
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.
Harriman and its neighbors
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Midtown is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
Tennessee towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harriman | D | 4.8 | 24.0 |
| Kingston | A− | 1.1 | 3.5 |
| Erwin | B | 1.5 | 9.0 |
| Millersville | B | 2.4 | 5.4 |
| Dunlap | B | 1.3 | 10.6 |
| Lafayette | C | 1.5 | 20.4 |
The five graded Tennessee towns closest to Harriman’s population (6,192), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
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 Harriman. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Harriman’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (6,283 in 2025); our figure for Harriman is 6,192 (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 Harriman
Is Harriman, TN safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Harriman reports more crime per resident than 86% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #98 of 129 in Tennessee. Its police reported 4.8 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.2 in the rest of Tennessee and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Harriman?
4.8 violent and 24.0 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Tennessee reports 8.2 and 30.1; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is Harriman safer than Rockwood?
Rockwood reports more crime per resident than Harriman: Rockwood grades D for safety and Harriman D. Rockwood’s police reported 5.5 violent and 23.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Harriman?
Harriman’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Harriman”. 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.