City Travel Stats

Nashville

United States · North America

54Safety indexModerate
1CA flagGlobal Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions
1GB flagUK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions
1AU flagSmartraveller (AU)Level 1 · Normal precautions
5/5metric categories covered
Open comparison
36.16°, -86.78°
Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Nashville sits low in our index at 54 out of 100, safer than only 19% of the cities we score.

The homicide rate is 14.7 per 100,000, more than nine times the median across tracked cities, and this is a clean city-level figure without geographic or timing caveats. Robbery is recorded at 163.2 per 100,000, also city-specific, though police counts miss the incidents people never report. Three governments weigh in, and Canada, the UK, and Australia all keep the United States at their lowest advisory level. Their advisories still name pickpocketing and scams as risks for travellers. On perception, 60% of people said they feel safe walking alone after dark, but that result is national and not specific to Nashville.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern
Violent crimeRobbery & theftTravel advisory
Violent crime29
Robbery & theft30
Travel advisory0
The radar shows the three sourced, comparable risk measures (homicide, robbery, the strictest travel-advisory level). Tourist petty-crime signals are a different kind of measure — how often advisories mention them — so they are shown as rows under Tourist-specific incidents, not as radar axes.

Homicide / general violence

Intentional homicides (per 100,000)
14.7/100k

Primary source: FBI Crime Data Explorer — Metropolitan Nashville Police Department

Where this sits on the scaleHigh
01·3·8·20·40 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 13% of tracked cities
14.7/100k
0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)
163.2/100k

Primary source: FBI Crime Data Explorer — Metropolitan Nashville Police Department

Where this sits on the scaleElevated
040·120·250·400·600 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 26% of tracked cities
163.2/100k
0.4/100k safest3097.8/100k

Travel advisories

U.S. State Department

No advisory on record.

Global Affairs Canada
1CA flagGlobal Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — United States Travel Advice and Advisories

UK FCDO
1GB flagUK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: UK FCDO — United States travel advice

Smartraveller (Australia)
1AU flagSmartraveller (AU)Level 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: Australian Government (DFAT Smartraveller) — United States travel advice

Perceived safety

How safe people say they feel, from official population surveys — a separate signal, not part of the Safety Index.
Feel safe walking alone at night
National survey
60%feel safe
60% of people surveyed · United States · 2023
Survey figure is for United States (country), wider than Nashville itself.

Primary source: UN SDG 16.1.4 — feel safe walking alone at night (UNODC)

Tourist-specific incidents

How often government travel advisories mention each — a source-consensus signal, not a risk rate.
Pickpocketing & petty theft in travel advisories
1 of 2 advisories mention this
project-atlas count: 1 of 2 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.
Based on only 2 reviewed advisories — a thin sample; treat as indicative.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — United States travel advice (Safety and security)

Scams & fraud in travel advisories
1 of 2 advisories mention this
project-atlas count: 1 of 2 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.
Based on only 2 reviewed advisories — a thin sample; treat as indicative.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — United States travel advice (Safety and security)