Healthcare & Safety in La Vergne
La Vergne has no full-service hospital within its own city limits -- the nearest options sit in neighboring Smyrna, Murfreesboro, or Nashville -- and crime data sends a genuinely mixed signal even within a single source, with an average overall grade alongside a below-average violent-crime grade.
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Learn moreNo in-city hospital -- the nearest options are a short drive away
Unlike Dickson and Lebanon in this same batch, La Vergne has no full-service hospital within its own city limits. TriStar Stonecrest Medical Center in neighboring Smyrna is the closest option, with TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center (Nashville), TriStar Summit Medical Center (Hermitage), and Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital (Murfreesboro) all cited as being within roughly a 30-minute drive.
Crime data: mixed even within a single source
CrimeGrade assigns La Vergne a C+ overall grade (48th percentile, roughly average) but a D grade for violent crime specifically (21st percentile, below average) -- a genuine internal disagreement, not just a cross-source one. NeighborhoodScout separately cites a 1-in-45 overall victimization chance.
Safety varies by area, without singling out any as unsafe
Residents reportedly consider the southeast part of the city safer (odds as favorable as 1 in 67) than the west (odds as unfavorable as 1 in 24) -- a real, disclosed relative pattern, though no specific neighborhood is characterized as unsafe here, per site policy.
Key takeaways
- La Vergne has no full-service hospital within city limits -- TriStar Stonecrest Medical Center (Smyrna) is the nearest option, with several more within a ~30-minute drive.
- Crime data is genuinely mixed even within one source: CrimeGrade's C+ overall grade (48th percentile) sits alongside a below-average D grade for violent crime specifically (21st percentile).
- NeighborhoodScout cites a 1-in-45 overall victimization chance, with real, disclosed area-to-area variation (southeast safer, west less favorable) but no neighborhood singled out as unsafe.
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