Kingsport
City in Sullivan County, Hawkins County, 56,262 people.
Police
Sheriffs and county police in its counties: Sullivan County Sheriff's Office, Hawkins County Sheriff's Office.
A department is the place's own when its name is the place's and its FBI population fits the place's people (decision city-or-town-is-its-police-department). Agencies: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.
Where it sits
- Counties
- Sullivan CountyHawkins County
- People
- 56,262
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
How a case moves here
Kingsport follows Tennessee law on arrests, release, and courts; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.
- Who decides release first
A magistrate sets bail first. In many counties that is an appointed judicial commissioner who need not be a lawyer; in others it is a general sessions judge or, when no judge can come within three hours, a court clerk. A defendant can appeal a commissioner's decision to the court.
Tenn. Code Ann. 40-11-106Tenn. Code Ann. 40-1-111Tenn. Code Ann. 40-11-150- Time to see a judge
A person arrested must be taken "without unnecessary delay" before the nearest magistrate of the county. The rule sets no number of hours.
Tenn. R. Crim. P. 5(a)- Money bail
Magistrates and judges may set money bail, and the sheriff or a judicial commissioner accepts bonds from approved commercial bonding companies.
Tenn. Code Ann. 40-11-106
Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. Some of this is medium confidence and still being checked. trial_selection is "mixed" because Ballotpedia says trial judges run in partisan elections unless a county opts for nonpartisan ones; no statute was read for this. Which counties use judicial commissioners versus judges or clerks, and whether any county uses a misdemeanor bail schedule, was not confirmed.
Crime
Offenses reported by Kingsport Police Department, Kingsport's own department. The county sheriff and state police may answer calls here too; their offenses are on their own pages.
The crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | Tennessee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 413 | 441 | 373 | 248 | 328 | 641 | 610 |
| Murder | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 8.8 |
| Rape | 22 | 43 | 29 | 29 | 38 | 57 | 41 |
| Robbery | 31 | 28 | 24 | 21 | 37 | 50 | 63 |
| Aggravated assault | 358 | 368 | 317 | 196 | 252 | 530 | 498 |
| Property crime | 2,130 | 2,305 | 2,068 | 1,702 | 1,299 | 3,380 | 2,131 |
| Burglary | 258 | 262 | 239 | 182 | 138 | 384 | 284 |
| Larceny | 1,567 | 1,744 | 1,627 | 1,349 | 1,037 | 2,605 | 1,510 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 305 | 299 | 202 | 171 | 124 | 392 | 337 |
| Arson | 10 | 11 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 17 | 12 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | Tennessee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 3,974 | 3,539 | 3,149 | 2,696 | 2,906 | 5,784 | 4,023 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 1,127 | 1,007 | 920 | 841 | 810 | 1,673 | 1,439 |
| Vandalism | 666 | 524 | 509 | 391 | 381 | 879 | 603 |
| Fraud | 553 | 581 | 485 | 323 | 216 | 767 | 390 |
| Drug abuse violations | 1,286 | 1,031 | 902 | 911 | 1,251 | 1,914 | 1,125 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 80 | 102 | 67 | 58 | 70 | 134 | 218 |
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 5 | 1 | 6 | 35 | 33 | 28 | 32 |
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 98 | 118 | 109 | 49 | 35 | 145 | 69 |
| Embezzlement | 16 | 23 | 16 | 8 | 9 | 26 | 25 |
| Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) | 51 | 51 | 36 | 27 | 33 | 70 | 44 |
| Prostitution and commercialized vice | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 4.8 | |
| Other Group A offenses | 91 | 100 | 98 | 53 | 65 | 145 | 71 |
| Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total) | 2 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 0.9 |
Offenses Kingsport Police Department reported to the FBI in incident detail (NIBRS), each year, the second table by the arrest class each offense falls in. Per 100k: offenses per 100,000 people the department polices, 2021 to 2025 added together, beside Tennessee's rate over the same years. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.
Source: FBI NIBRS national master files, each agency's offenses and the FBI's population for it. Tennessee: the crime index: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, CrimeDB's chosen value per year (the state page's figures); outside it: FBI NIBRS, agencies that sent incident detail.