Nashville Assault
Nashville · Assault · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Nashville police open data recorded 13,945 assault incidents, 23.8% of all 58,683 incidents reported in the city that year and down 3.4% from 2024. That is about 1,978 per 100,000 residents, compared with 1,325 per 100,000 across the 60 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 12,024 assault incidents have been published.
Assault in Nashville by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 12,024 | — | — |
| 2025 | 13,945 | 1,978 | down 3.4% |
| 2024 | 14,434 | 2,047 | up 4.3% |
| 2023 | 13,842 | 1,964 | up 5.9% |
| 2022 | 13,069 | 1,854 | unchanged |
| 2021 | 13,064 | 1,853 | up 4.5% |
| 2020 | 12,506 | 1,774 | down 3.8% |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 105,879 assault incidents.
Questions
How many assault incidents were reported in Nashville in 2025?
13,945, according to Metro Nashville Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is assault going up or down in Nashville?
Reported assault was down 3.4% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 6.7% compared with 2022 (rising over three years).
Where does this data come from?
Source: Metro Nashville 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 Nashville
- Nashville other 11,913 in 2025
- Nashville theft 11,009 in 2025
- Nashville burglary 8,422 in 2025
- Nashville vandalism 4,751 in 2025
- Nashville fraud 4,080 in 2025
- Nashville auto theft 3,785 in 2025
- Nashville robbery 704 in 2025
- Nashville bike theft 54 in 2025
- Nashville homicide 14 in 2025
- Nashville shooting 4 in 2025
- Nashville sexual assault 2 in 2025