Rattle and Snap · Photo: National Park Service photographer · Public domainPer resident, Mount Pleasant records more violent crime than 87% of U.S. towns
In a usual year, 4.8 violent crimes and 9.6 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the rest of Tennessee, 8.2 and 30.1. Its Safety Grade, C (#70 of 129 graded towns in Tennessee), rests on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025: more crime per resident than 70% of U.S. towns.
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 Mount Pleasant
Among Tennessee towns, closer to the middle
Tennessee’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Mount Pleasant’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 46% of the 129 Tennessee towns we grade, against 30% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Mount Pleasant’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Property crime holds Mount Pleasant’s grade up; violent crime pulls it down.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Mount Pleasant | Rest of Tennessee | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6.2 | 9.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 7.0 | 9.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.7 | 8.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 4.7 | 6.9 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Mount Pleasant’s police reported 70 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.
Crime in Mount Pleasant 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 5 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Mount Pleasant property | Rest of Tennessee property | Mount Pleasant violent | Rest of Tennessee violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 14.0 | 33.6 | 6.2 | 9.1 |
| 2023 | 12.0 | 35.4 | 7.0 | 9.1 |
| 2024 | 7.5 | 30.6 | 2.7 | 8.5 |
| 2025 | 9.4 | 24.4 | 4.7 | 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.
69 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.
23 violent and 46 property, as reported to the FBI by Mount Pleasant’s police.
Seven people died in crashes on Mount Pleasant’s roads in 2019–2023
Mount Pleasant had 6 fatal crashes in five years, in which seven people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is more than is typical for Tennessee towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (12.4 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Mount Pleasant’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Mount Pleasant’s own rate (28.9) 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.
Mount Pleasant and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pleasant | C | 4.8 | 9.6 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Tennessee towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pleasant | C | 4.8 | 9.6 |
| Sparta | C | 1.9 | 23.2 |
| Rogersville | C | 2.7 | 20.3 |
| Madisonville | C− | 3.3 | 22.0 |
| Rockwood | D | 5.5 | 23.3 |
| Bolivar | D− | 16.9 | 23.7 |
The five graded Tennessee towns closest to Mount Pleasant’s population (5,103), 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 Mount Pleasant. 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 Mount Pleasant’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (4,888 in 2025); our figure for Mount Pleasant is 5,103 (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 Mount Pleasant
Is Mount Pleasant, TN safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Mount Pleasant reports more crime per resident than 70% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #70 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 Mount Pleasant?
4.8 violent and 9.6 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 Mount Pleasant?
Mount Pleasant’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Mount Pleasant”. 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.