Chattanooga Theft from vehicle
Chattanooga · Theft from vehicle · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Chattanooga police open data recorded 1,465 theft from vehicle incidents, 7.2% of all 20,245 incidents reported in the city that year and down 17.0% from 2024. That is about 765 per 100,000 residents, compared with 634 per 100,000 across the 46 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 1,047 theft from vehicle incidents have been published.
Theft from vehicle in Chattanooga by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 1,047 | — | — |
| 2025 | 1,465 | 765 | down 17.0% |
| 2024 | 1,765 | 922 | down 20.1% |
| 2023 | 2,210 | 1,154 | down 19.7% |
| 2022 | 2,752 | 1,437 | down 16.3% |
| 2021 | 3,289 | 1,718 | up 2.9% |
| 2020 | 3,196 | 1,669 | up 24.5% |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 29,242 theft from vehicle incidents.
Neighborhoods with the most theft from vehicle (2025)
- Northside/Cherokee 20 incidents
- Martin Luther King 19 incidents
- Ridgedale 15 incidents
- East Lake 13 incidents
- SS Cowart 11 incidents
- Highland Park 10 incidents
- Avondale 9 incidents
- Lake Hills 9 incidents
Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.
Questions
How many theft from vehicle incidents were reported in Chattanooga in 2025?
1,465, according to Chattanooga Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is theft from vehicle going up or down in Chattanooga?
Reported theft from vehicle was down 17.0% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 46.8% 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.
Other crime types in Chattanooga
- Chattanooga other 7,335 in 2025
- Chattanooga theft 3,747 in 2025
- Chattanooga assault 3,355 in 2025
- Chattanooga vandalism 1,525 in 2025
- Chattanooga fraud 1,045 in 2025
- Chattanooga auto theft 747 in 2025
- Chattanooga burglary 595 in 2025
- Chattanooga sexual assault 285 in 2025
- Chattanooga robbery 134 in 2025
- Chattanooga homicide 12 in 2025