Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Safety in Tellico Plains: figures, but no grade
Tellico Plains’ police department covers under 1,000 people in the FBI’s count, so the page shows its counts, not rates, and there is no Safety Grade. A 25-mile circle around it holds 6 towns with a grade. The closest graded town is Madisonville, 11 miles away, at C−.
25 crimes reported in 2025
In a town this small, a few incidents move the numbers a lot, so we show counts rather than rates.
Every offense type 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.
7 violent and 18 property, as reported to the FBI by Tellico Plains’ police.
The nearest Tennessee towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madisonville | C− | 11 mi | 3.3 | 22.0 |
| Etowah | B+ | 13 mi | 1.2 | 6.7 |
| Vonore | C− | 16 mi | 4.0 | 19.8 |
| Athens | D | 18 mi | 4.8 | 33.9 |
| Sweetwater | C | 19 mi | 3.8 | 13.2 |
| Benton | B+ | 24 mi | 1.2 | 7.0 |
Straight-line distance from the center of Tellico Plains. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Tellico Plains.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Two people died in crashes on Tellico Plains’s roads in 2019–2023
Tellico Plains had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people 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 Tellico Plains’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Tellico Plains’s own rate (34.9) 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.
Tellico Plains and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|
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 Tellico Plains. 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 Tellico Plains’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (786 in 2025); our figure for Tellico Plains is 778 (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 Tellico Plains
Is Tellico Plains, TN safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Tellico Plains. The nearest Tennessee towns with a grade are Madisonville (C−, 11 mi), Etowah (B+, 13 mi), Vonore (C−, 16 mi).
Who polices Tellico Plains?
Tellico Plains’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Tellico Plains”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Neighbors looking out for each other in Tellico Plains.
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.