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Table 13

TENNESSEE

Hate Crime Incidents
per Bias Motivation and Quarter
by State and Agency, 2011

Agency type Agency name Number of incidents per bias motivation Number of incidents per quarter1 Population2
Race Religion Sexual
orientation 		Ethnicity Disability 1st
quarter 		2nd
quarter 		3rd
quarter 		4th
quarter
Total 78 15 33 13 5
Cities 51 10 29 13 2
Alamo 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2,483
Alcoa 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8,525
Bartlett 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 55,106
Bristol 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 26,943
Brownsville 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 10,385
Calhoun 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 494
Centerville 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3,677
Chattanooga 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 169,187
Clarksville 2 0 3 0 0 1 1 3 0 134,128
Cleveland 3 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 41,657
Coopertown 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 4,317
Franklin 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 63,051
Gallatin 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 30,551
Harriman 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 6,407
Hendersonville 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 51,835
Humboldt 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 8,528
Jamestown 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 1,977
Kingsport 4 0 0 1 0 0 4 0 1 48,640
Kingston 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5,988
Knoxville 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 180,488
Lafayette 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 4,514
Lawrenceburg 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 10,522
Lexington 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 7,721
Loudon 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 5,430
Manchester 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 10,193
McMinnville 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 13,728
Memphis 5 0 16 1 0 2 4 11 5 652,725
Milan 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 7,922
Millington 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 10,268
Morristown 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 29,400
Moscow 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 561
Nashville 3 5 4 3 0 3 4 5 3 612,789
Newport 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 7,008
Oak Ridge 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 29,595
Portland 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 11,584
Sevierville 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 14,941
Springfield 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 16,588
Spring Hill 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 29,298
Trimble 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 643
Union City 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 10,993
Vonore 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1,487
White House 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 10,348
Winchester 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 8,607
Universities and Colleges 1 0 0 0 0
Middle Tennessee State University 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 26,430
Metropolitan Counties 23 4 4 0 3
Anderson 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
Blount 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Cheatham 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Hamilton 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1
Jefferson 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Knox 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
Montgomery 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Rutherford 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1
Shelby 6 2 2 0 3 2 1 7 3
Stewart 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Sullivan 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Sumner 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Washington 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Wilson 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Nonmetropolitan Counties 2 1 0 0 0
Benton 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Gibson 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Maury 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Other Agencies 1 0 0 0 0
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
  • 1 Agencies published in this table indicated that at least one hate crime incident occurred in their respective jurisdictions during the quarter(s) for which they submitted a report to the Hate Crime Statistics Program. Blanks indicate quarters for which agencies did not submit reports.
  • 2 Population figures are published only for the cities. The figures listed for the universities and colleges are student enrollment and were provided by the United States Department of Education for the 2010 school year, the most recent available. The enrollment figures include full-time and part-time students.

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