Crime & Safety in Brentwood
Brentwood's crime data is the most consistently favorable of any place in this project's Nashville-satellite comparison batch, though sources genuinely disagree on Brentwood's exact statewide safety rank -- #2 (HomeSnacks), #6 (Nextdoor), and #11 (a third ranking) were each cited this session -- even as every source agrees Brentwood runs substantially below state and national crime averages.
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Learn moreEvery source agrees: substantially below state and national averages
NeighborhoodScout cites Brentwood's overall crime rate at 8 per 1,000 residents (near the average for all U.S. cities and towns on that specific measure) with a 1-in-128 annual chance of victimization, and separately describes violent crime specifically as "well below the national average." CrimeGrade.org cites a violent crime rate of 3.493 per 1,000 and an overall safety grade of A+, describing overall crime as roughly 55% below the national average. A third source cites an overall rate of 9.28 versus a 33.37 national average, and a violent-crime rate of 0.69 versus 3.6 nationally -- different absolute numbers across sources, but a consistent "substantially safer than average" conclusion across all of them.
Real, disclosed disagreement on Brentwood's exact statewide rank
HomeSnacks ranked Brentwood the #2 safest city in Tennessee for 2026; Nextdoor ranked it #6; a third ranking placed it #11. This is a genuine rank disagreement, not resolved to one number here -- though the disagreement is about exactly how safe Brentwood is relative to other specific Tennessee cities, not about whether it is safe in absolute terms, where all sources agree.
Southwest Brentwood cited as the area with relatively more reported crime
One source specifically identifies the southwest part of Brentwood as reporting the most crime within the city, at roughly 497 cases per year -- a real, specific, sourced data point, though still consistent with Brentwood's overall substantially-below-average citywide profile rather than indicating a genuinely unsafe area in absolute terms.
Check a specific address directly, and expect real block-level variance
As with any city, block-level and neighborhood-level variance is real. Per site policy, no specific lower-rated area is singled out beyond the general southwest-Brentwood pattern already publicly cited above -- check a specific address directly with both CrimeGrade.org and NeighborhoodScout before drawing a conclusion.
Key takeaways
- Every crime-data source reviewed this session agrees Brentwood runs substantially below state and national crime averages, even though the specific numbers cited differ: NeighborhoodScout (8/1,000 overall, 1-in-128 odds), CrimeGrade.org (3.493/1,000 violent, A+ grade, ~55% below national), and a third source (9.28 vs. 33.37 national overall, 0.69 vs. 3.6 national violent).
- Sources disagree on Brentwood's exact statewide safety rank: #2 (HomeSnacks), #6 (Nextdoor), and #11 (a third ranking) were each cited -- disclosed as a real rank disagreement, not resolved to one number.
- Southwest Brentwood is specifically cited as the area with relatively more reported crime within the city (~497 cases/year), though still consistent with Brentwood's overall substantially-below-average profile.
- Check a specific address directly with both major crime-data sources before drawing a conclusion, and expect real block-level variance beyond any citywide figure.
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