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Safety in Loudon · FBI data, 2023–2025

Reported crime per resident in Loudon rose 46% from 2023 to 2025

Overall, Loudon grades B for safety (#29 of 129 graded towns in Tennessee): close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported in 2023–2025. What’s more, typical years here bring 2.1 violent crimes plus 6.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 8.2 plus 30.1 in the rest of Tennessee. Property crime is lower than in 71% of U.S. towns; violent crime, lower than in only 41%.

Violent crime
2.1
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of TN (8.2)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
6.6
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of TN (30.1)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
179
43 violent · 136 property
2023–2025
Trend
▲ Rising
2023 to 2025
beyond ordinary swings

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 · In brief

What stands out about safety in Loudon

Among Tennessee towns, higher

Tennessee’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Loudon’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

Loudon has 6,560 jobs based in town for 6,963 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓

Reported crime is rising

Crime reported per resident rose 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.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Loudon’s grade

Where Loudon sits
C+ Violent 2.1B+ Property 6.6
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 59%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Tennessee towns we grade (129)Less crime than 78% · #29 of 129
Places of 5,000–25,000 people (3,282)Less crime than 58%
A fairly firm grade. Built on 179 reported crimes over three years. Ordinary swings could put Loudon anywhere from B− to B+.

How TownRatings grades safety →

Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Property crime holds Loudon’s grade up; violent crime pulls it down. Its violent rate (2.1) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.

Trend

Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025

Show as a table
YearLoudon propertyRest of Tennessee propertyLoudon violentRest of Tennessee violent
20224.933.60.29.1
20236.835.40.99.1
20245.430.71.68.5
20257.624.43.66.9

Crimes per 1,000 residents

Reported crime per resident rose from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Tennessee.

Violent crime

Violent crime, by year and by type

Loudon’s police reported 43 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.1 per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.2 in the rest of Tennessee and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

1,000 neighbors · one year

Crime in Loudon per 1,000 residents

Property crime (7.6)Violent crime (3.6)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Loudon3.6
Rest of TN6.9
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Loudon7.6
Rest of TN24.4
U.S. (FBI)15.5

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 4 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

What gets reported

81 crimes reported in 2025

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft31
Burglary18
Vehicle theft6
Aggravated assault26
Robbery0
Rape0
Homicide0
Arson0
26
violent crimes
55
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

26 violent and 55 property, as reported to the FBI by Loudon’s police.

On the roads

One person died in crashes on Loudon’s roads in 2019–2023

Loudon had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died.

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 Loudon’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Loudon’s own rate (3.1) is context, not a ranking.

1
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
3.1
per 100,000 a year · Tennessee towns of 5,000–25,000: 9.4

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.

Next door

Loudon and its neighbors

Loudon
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
LoudonB2.16.6

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

Tennessee towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
LoudonB2.16.6
GreenbrierB2.54.3
JonesboroughB1.310.8
MunfordB−3.46.8
FayettevilleD9.719.3
NewportD−6.043.0

The five graded Tennessee towns closest to Loudon’s population (6,963), by grade.

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

How to read these numbers

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 Loudon. 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 Loudon’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (7,194 in 2025); our figure for Loudon is 6,963 (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 Loudon

Is Loudon, TN safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Loudon reports less crime per resident than 59% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #29 of 129 in Tennessee. Its police reported 2.1 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 Loudon?

2.1 violent and 6.6 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.

Who polices Loudon?

Loudon’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Loudon”. 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.