Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0The nearest town with a Safety Grade to South Carthage is Carthage, 1 mile away
A 25-mile circle around it holds 7 towns with a grade. Inside a 10-mile circle, only Carthage carries a grade. South Carthage’s police reported to the FBI for 2024 and 2025 but not 2023, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025.
For every 1,000 residents, about 6 property crimes reported
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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
The years South Carthage’s police reported
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| Year | South Carthage | Rest of Tennessee | South Carthage | Rest of Tennessee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | not reported | 33.6 | not reported | 9.1 |
| 2023 | not reported | 35.4 | not reported | 9.1 |
| 2024 | 3.1 | 30.6 | 1.2 | 8.5 |
| 2025 | 6.2 | 24.3 | 0.6 | 6.9 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of Tennessee. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.
11 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.
1 violent and 10 property, as reported to the FBI by South Carthage’s police.
The nearest Tennessee towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carthage | C− | 1 mi | 3.5 | 25.5 |
| Watertown | B | 14 mi | 1.8 | 8.2 |
| Baxter | B | 19 mi | 1.3 | 8.3 |
| Lafayette | C | 20 mi | 1.5 | 20.4 |
| Smithville | C | 21 mi | 3.7 | 11.0 |
| Red Boiling Springs | C | 21 mi | 5.7 | 4.7 |
Straight-line distance from the center of South Carthage. Nearby towns can differ a lot from South Carthage.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
One person died in crashes on South Carthage’s roads in 2019–2023
South Carthage had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died.
That is about what 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 South Carthage’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so South Carthage’s own rate (8.5) 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.
South Carthage and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
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Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
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 South Carthage. 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 South Carthage’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,610 in 2025); our figure for South Carthage is 1,576 (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 South Carthage
Is South Carthage, TN safe?
There is no Safety Grade for South Carthage. The nearest Tennessee towns with a grade are Carthage (C−, 1 mi), Watertown (B, 14 mi), Baxter (B, 19 mi).
Who polices South Carthage?
South Carthage’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “South Carthage”. 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.