Nashville Fraud
Nashville · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Nashville police open data recorded 4,080 fraud incidents, 7.0% of all 58,683 incidents reported in the city that year and down 14.1% from 2024. That is about 579 per 100,000 residents, compared with 309 per 100,000 across the 58 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 3,429 fraud incidents have been published.
Fraud in Nashville by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 3,429 | — | — |
| 2025 | 4,080 | 579 | down 14.1% |
| 2024 | 4,748 | 674 | up 7.6% |
| 2023 | 4,413 | 626 | up 6.5% |
| 2022 | 4,142 | 588 | up 11.1% |
| 2021 | 3,728 | 529 | down 12.8% |
| 2020 | 4,276 | 607 | down 10.2% |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 33,579 fraud incidents.
Questions
How many fraud incidents were reported in Nashville in 2025?
4,080, according to Metro Nashville Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is fraud going up or down in Nashville?
Reported fraud was down 14.1% in 2025 compared with 2024, and down 1.5% compared with 2022 (roughly flat 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 assault 13,945 in 2025
- 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 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