Crime & Safety in Hendersonville
Hendersonville's crime data is genuinely, consistently favorable across every source reviewed -- a real differentiator from Murfreesboro's interpretive split -- with both CrimeGrade and NeighborhoodScout describing rates meaningfully below the national average.
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Learn moreNeighborhoodScout: 'one of the safest places in America' for its size
NeighborhoodScout cites an overall crime rate of 8 per 1,000 residents for Hendersonville -- near the average for all US cities and towns generally, but described as "one of the lowest in the nation for its size, making it one of the safest places in America in which to live for its size." Violent crime specifically is cited at 1 per 1,000 residents, about average for all communities regardless of size.
CrimeGrade: a favorable violent-crime rate and below-average cost-of-crime figure
CrimeGrade cites Hendersonville's violent crime rate at 3.138 per 1,000 residents in a typical year, with a cost of crime per resident of $235/year -- $23 less than the national average and $167 less than Tennessee's state average. A separate aggregation of the same underlying data put Hendersonville's overall crime rate at 9.92 per 1,000 (vs. a 33.37 national average), with violent crime at 1.38 and property crime at 8.54 -- both considerably lower than national rates.
A real, consistent differentiator from Murfreesboro's crime-data split
Unlike Murfreesboro, where CrimeGrade and NeighborhoodScout diverge sharply in framing despite similar raw numbers, Hendersonville's sources are directionally CONSISTENT -- both describe the city as safer than the national average, with NeighborhoodScout's "safest places in America for its size" framing standing out as a genuinely favorable, sourced claim rather than boosterism.
Check a specific address directly, and expect real block-level variance
As with any city, block-level variance is real even within a favorably-rated overall city. Per site policy, no specific lower-rated area is named here -- check a specific address directly with both CrimeGrade and NeighborhoodScout before drawing a conclusion.
Key takeaways
- NeighborhoodScout describes Hendersonville as "one of the safest places in America" for its size, citing an overall crime rate of 8 per 1,000 (near the national average) and a violent crime rate of 1 per 1,000 (also about average).
- CrimeGrade cites a violent crime rate of 3.138 per 1,000 and a cost-of-crime figure ($235/resident/year) that's $23 below the national average and $167 below Tennessee's state average; a separate aggregation cites an overall rate of 9.92 per 1,000 vs. a 33.37 national average.
- Hendersonville's crime-data sources are directionally CONSISTENT (unlike Murfreesboro's interpretive split) -- all describe the city as safer than the national average, a real, sourced differentiator.
- Check a specific address directly with both CrimeGrade and NeighborhoodScout before drawing a conclusion; no specific lower-rated area is named here per site policy.
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