Nashville-Davidson
Metropolitan government in Davidson County, 690,130 people.
Police
A department or FBI code is the place's own when its name is the place's and its FBI population fits the place's people (decisions city-or-town-is-its-police-department, left-out-code-is-its-place). Agencies: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.
Where it sits
- County
- Davidson County
- People
- 690,130
- Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024
- Also a county
- Its land is all of Davidson County.
How a case moves here
Nashville-Davidson 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 Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, Nashville-Davidson'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 | 8,458 | 8,555 | 8,778 | 8,348 | 6,883 | 1,179 | 610 |
| Murder | 101 | 109 | 101 | 102 | 59 | 14 | 8.8 |
| Rape | 568 | 553 | 564 | 600 | 565 | 82 | 41 |
| Robbery | 1,631 | 1,362 | 1,256 | 1,148 | 785 | 178 | 63 |
| Aggravated assault | 6,158 | 6,531 | 6,857 | 6,498 | 5,474 | 906 | 498 |
| Property crime | 25,998 | 27,433 | 31,821 | 32,308 | 27,823 | 4,180 | 2,131 |
| Burglary | 3,375 | 3,567 | 2,979 | 3,001 | 2,506 | 444 | 284 |
| Larceny | 19,531 | 20,488 | 23,268 | 24,119 | 21,247 | 3,124 | 1,510 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 3,092 | 3,378 | 5,574 | 5,188 | 4,070 | 612 | 337 |
| Arson | 77 | 93 | 69 | 55 | 60 | 10 | 12 |
Outside the crime index
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Per 100k | Tennessee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All offenses outside the crime index | 36,726 | 36,092 | 39,272 | 39,343 | 35,179 | 5,365 | 4,023 |
| Simple assault and intimidation | 15,425 | 14,721 | 16,207 | 17,132 | 15,984 | 2,285 | 1,439 |
| Vandalism | 7,479 | 6,911 | 6,918 | 6,616 | 5,339 | 956 | 603 |
| Fraud | 4,517 | 4,586 | 5,148 | 5,644 | 4,880 | 712 | 390 |
| Drug abuse violations | 3,704 | 4,098 | 4,905 | 4,154 | 4,177 | 605 | 1,125 |
| Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc. | 3,878 | 3,809 | 4,036 | 3,644 | 2,796 | 522 | 218 |
| Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 6 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 32 |
| Forgery and counterfeiting | 422 | 457 | 417 | 365 | 313 | 57 | 69 |
| Embezzlement | 268 | 338 | 417 | 406 | 291 | 49 | 25 |
| Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution) | 406 | 468 | 457 | 508 | 454 | 66 | 44 |
| Prostitution and commercialized vice | 20 | 39 | 13 | 14 | 20 | 3 | 4.8 |
| Gambling | 1 | 9 | 13 | 19 | 15 | 1.6 | 1.3 |
| Other Group A offenses | 604 | 652 | 736 | 840 | 904 | 107 | 71 |
| Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total) | 3 | 1 | 3 | Too few for a rate: the count is under 20. | 0.9 | ||
| Human trafficking (not in the total) | 29 | 23 | 7 | 14 | 9 | 2.4 | 1.4 |
Offenses Metropolitan Nashville 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.