Chattanooga Sexual assault

Chattanooga · Sexual assault · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Chattanooga police open data recorded 285 sexual assault incidents, 1.4% of all 20,245 incidents reported in the city that year and down 4.0% from 2024. That is about 149 per 100,000 residents, compared with 80.9 per 100,000 across the 42 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 254 sexual assault incidents have been published.

Sexual assault in Chattanooga by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)254——
2025285149down 4.0%
2024297155up 0.7%
2023295154down 15.0%
2022347181down 1.1%
2021351183up 11.8%
2020314164down 5.7%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 3,675 sexual assault incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most sexual assault (2025)

  1. Avondale 6 incidents
  2. East Lake 4 incidents
  3. Oak Grove 4 incidents
  4. Glenwood 3 incidents
  5. Martin Luther King 2 incidents
  6. Shepherd 2 incidents
  7. Glass Farms 2 incidents
  8. Park Central 2 incidents

Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.

Questions

How many sexual assault incidents were reported in Chattanooga in 2025?

285, according to Chattanooga Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is sexual assault going up or down in Chattanooga?

Reported sexual assault was down 4.0% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 17.9% compared with 2022 (falling over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: Chattanooga Police Department open data. TheCrimeMaps.com groups each published offense into a crime type; counts are police-reported incidents, not convictions, and some reports are reclassified or removed by the source later.

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