Crime & Safety in Clarksville
Clarksville's crime data shows a genuine, disclosed tension between two framings from the same and different sources: CrimeGrade's neighborhood-level analysis reads the city as broadly 'Very Safe,' even as CrimeGrade's own city-level grade is more middling and NeighborhoodScout separately describes Clarksville's overall rate as above the national average.
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Learn moreCrimeGrade's city-level read versus its own neighborhood-level read
CrimeGrade cites Clarksville's violent crime rate at 4.482 per 1,000 residents (safer than the Tennessee state average) and property crime at 13.61 per 1,000 (safer than both state and national averages) -- yet assigns the city an overall B- grade at the city level. Its own neighborhood-by-neighborhood analysis of all 112 Clarksville neighborhoods, by contrast, produces a city-wide 'Very Safe (A)' characterization, with 70.5% (79 of 112) rated A and 96% (108 of 112) rated A or B -- a real, internal tension within the same source between its city-level letter grade and its granular neighborhood data.
NeighborhoodScout's separate, more cautionary framing
NeighborhoodScout cites a combined violent-plus-property chance of victimization of 1 in 49 annually, while describing Clarksville's overall crime rate as "considerably higher than the national average across all communities in America" -- a genuinely different framing than CrimeGrade's more favorable neighborhood-level read, disclosed here by name rather than resolved into one verdict, in the same spirit as similar CrimeGrade/NeighborhoodScout disagreements documented elsewhere in this dataset.
Both violent and property crime run below Tennessee and national averages by CrimeGrade's own numbers
Notably, CrimeGrade's own PER-1,000 figures (4.482 violent, 13.61 property) are each described as safer than the Tennessee state average, and property crime specifically as safer than the national average too -- even though the same source's overall LETTER grade (B-) reads as more middling. This numeric-versus-letter-grade tension is worth understanding on its own terms rather than treating either framing alone as definitive.
Check a specific address directly, and expect real block-level variance
As with any city, block-level and neighborhood-level variance is real, and per site policy no specific lower-rated area is named here. Given the real, disclosed tension between CrimeGrade's neighborhood data (96% of neighborhoods A or B) and both its own city grade and NeighborhoodScout's more cautionary read, check a specific address directly with both sources before drawing conclusions about a particular area.
Key takeaways
- CrimeGrade cites violent crime at 4.482 per 1,000 (safer than the TN state average) and property crime at 13.61 per 1,000 (safer than TN and national averages) -- yet assigns Clarksville an overall city-level B- grade.
- CrimeGrade's own neighborhood-by-neighborhood analysis of all 112 Clarksville neighborhoods reads the city as 'Very Safe,' with 96% (108 of 112) graded A or B -- a real, internal tension with its own B- city-level letter grade.
- NeighborhoodScout separately describes Clarksville's overall crime rate as "considerably higher than the national average," with a 1-in-49 combined victimization chance -- a genuinely different framing than CrimeGrade's neighborhood-level read, disclosed rather than resolved.
- No specific area is named as unsafe here per site policy. Check a specific address directly with both CrimeGrade and NeighborhoodScout given the real, disclosed tension between sources and even within CrimeGrade's own data.
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