Researching Crime for a Knoxville Apt
Below is a listing of apartments by crime risk via a crime app on my iPhone.
My top priority for a new home is low crime, peace and quiet. I used a crime app to gauge crime at various apartments in Knoxville and around the metro area. Then I plotted all of the apartments on Google Earth, color coded by crime rate with green being low and red high. I wish I could post a picture. It would be useful to understanding the list below.
I have attached the color coded plot from Google Earth.
Legend
Green - Low crime
Yellow - Reasonable or Moderate (Still pretty low crime - I would live there)
Orange - Elevated
Magenta - Concerning
Red - High crime
Nothing was crazy high crime.
I ruled out any apartment higher than “reasonable”. “Elevated” crime is not really that bad but I am picky.
This listing is from my crime app so YMMV and you really need to do your own homework. This works for me. City Data crime rates are a wonderful starting point in researching a city, but it is not neighborhood specific.
The lists generally run west to east and north to south. So top of each category will be north of Farragut and bottom of each category will be Cedar Bluff or toward Seymour.
Low Crime
Lanesborough
Derby Run
Walden Legacy
Dogwood Terrace
Eagle Pointe
Raintree
Bridlewood on Westland
Heritage Lake
Aventine Northshore
Belle Meade
Legacy Pointe
The Villas on Wallace
Northshore Woods
Sequoyah Village
Evergreen at the Bluffs
The Views at Elm Grove
Cottages on Tazewell
Southland square
Reasonable or moderate
The Preserve at Hardin Valley
Enclave of Hardin Valley
Waterstone
Admiral Pointe
The Village at Westland Cove
The Pines
Willow Creek
Windsor Court
Magnolia Square
Madison Square
Sunnybrook
Spring Meadow
Sunset Rill
Cedar Ridge
Elevated
Overlook at Farragut
Tapestry at Turkey Creek
Bell Walker’s Crossing
Briarcliff at West Hills
West Hills Village
The Willows of West Hills
Steeplechase Apt Homes
Pine Ridge
Knox Landing
Tanglewood
The Knox
The Landings
The Henley
Cherokee Ridge
River’s Edge Apt Homes
Stonewall Lofts
Concerning
Greystone Pointe
Amberleigh Bluff
Fox Lake
Walker Springs
Copper Pointe
Elevation Knoxville
Goldelm at 414
Londontown
Kingston Pointe
Windover
Wellesely Park at Deanne Hill
Bouldercrest
Meadowood
Highland Terrace
One Riverwalk
One South Place
Redpoint Knoxville
Woodlands of Knoxville
Chapman Square
High Crime
Brendon Park
Deanne Hill
Waterford Village
Peppermill Square
Mountain Brook
Summercrest
Rocky Top
University Walk
Social Knoxville
Aspen Heights
Summit Towers
Marble Alley Lofts
Arbor Place
I currently live in an apartment my app identifies having "elevated" crime. In 2 years, 3 cars have had wheels stolen, the police helicopter makes a routine appearance overhead, and homeless people scrounge through the dumpsters almost nightly. I don't feel unsafe walking around at night but I have heard gunshots on rare occassions. Maybe "elevated" in Knoxville is different but my current experience has caused me to want an apartment my app identifies as having "low" crime. Safety and security are just important. The summer riots didn't help any.
I wasn’t trying to map every single apartment, just get a feel for where I would find low crime for my own purpose finding a safe apartment to live.
There isn’t a single area that is low crime or high crime. It is more patchwork than that. There are areas that tend safer or more dangerous, but it is not that simple. Generally, in the city limits is higher crime. Along I-75 is higher crime. North Knoxville is higher crime. West Knoxville close to the freeway is moderate crime but reduces the further away you get the freeway or the further away you go. North towards Halls Crossroads is lower crime.
You have to take these listings with a grain of salt. It is just from my crime app and there is so much more to real crime in real places than sweeping with a broad brush. If I have listed your apartment high crime and it is not, this is the best I can do from 2,400 miles away. People on City Data forums are always asking where the safe apartments are, and since I did all this work for my own purpose of finding a place with very low crime, I thought I would share it since it was already done. It is not a be all or end all and your personal experiences may be much different than what I posted above.
My top priority for a new home is low crime, peace and quiet. I used a crime app to gauge crime at various apartments in Knoxville and around the metro area. Then I plotted all of the apartments on Google Earth, color coded by crime rate with green being low and red high. I wish I could post a picture. It would be useful to understanding the list below.
I have attached the color coded plot from Google Earth.
Legend
Green - Low crime
Yellow - Reasonable or Moderate (Still pretty low crime - I would live there)
Orange - Elevated
Magenta - Concerning
Red - High crime
Nothing was crazy high crime.
I ruled out any apartment higher than “reasonable”. “Elevated” crime is not really that bad but I am picky.
This listing is from my crime app so YMMV and you really need to do your own homework. This works for me. City Data crime rates are a wonderful starting point in researching a city, but it is not neighborhood specific.
The lists generally run west to east and north to south. So top of each category will be north of Farragut and bottom of each category will be Cedar Bluff or toward Seymour.
Low Crime
Lanesborough
Derby Run
Walden Legacy
Dogwood Terrace
Eagle Pointe
Raintree
Bridlewood on Westland
Heritage Lake
Aventine Northshore
Belle Meade
Legacy Pointe
The Villas on Wallace
Northshore Woods
Sequoyah Village
Evergreen at the Bluffs
The Views at Elm Grove
Cottages on Tazewell
Southland square
Reasonable or moderate
The Preserve at Hardin Valley
Enclave of Hardin Valley
Waterstone
Admiral Pointe
The Village at Westland Cove
The Pines
Willow Creek
Windsor Court
Magnolia Square
Madison Square
Sunnybrook
Spring Meadow
Sunset Rill
Cedar Ridge
Elevated
Overlook at Farragut
Tapestry at Turkey Creek
Bell Walker’s Crossing
Briarcliff at West Hills
West Hills Village
The Willows of West Hills
Steeplechase Apt Homes
Pine Ridge
Knox Landing
Tanglewood
The Knox
The Landings
The Henley
Cherokee Ridge
River’s Edge Apt Homes
Stonewall Lofts
Concerning
Greystone Pointe
Amberleigh Bluff
Fox Lake
Walker Springs
Copper Pointe
Elevation Knoxville
Goldelm at 414
Londontown
Kingston Pointe
Windover
Wellesely Park at Deanne Hill
Bouldercrest
Meadowood
Highland Terrace
One Riverwalk
One South Place
Redpoint Knoxville
Woodlands of Knoxville
Chapman Square
High Crime
Brendon Park
Deanne Hill
Waterford Village
Peppermill Square
Mountain Brook
Summercrest
Rocky Top
University Walk
Social Knoxville
Aspen Heights
Summit Towers
Marble Alley Lofts
Arbor Place
I currently live in an apartment my app identifies having "elevated" crime. In 2 years, 3 cars have had wheels stolen, the police helicopter makes a routine appearance overhead, and homeless people scrounge through the dumpsters almost nightly. I don't feel unsafe walking around at night but I have heard gunshots on rare occassions. Maybe "elevated" in Knoxville is different but my current experience has caused me to want an apartment my app identifies as having "low" crime. Safety and security are just important. The summer riots didn't help any.
I wasn’t trying to map every single apartment, just get a feel for where I would find low crime for my own purpose finding a safe apartment to live.
There isn’t a single area that is low crime or high crime. It is more patchwork than that. There are areas that tend safer or more dangerous, but it is not that simple. Generally, in the city limits is higher crime. Along I-75 is higher crime. North Knoxville is higher crime. West Knoxville close to the freeway is moderate crime but reduces the further away you get the freeway or the further away you go. North towards Halls Crossroads is lower crime.
You have to take these listings with a grain of salt. It is just from my crime app and there is so much more to real crime in real places than sweeping with a broad brush. If I have listed your apartment high crime and it is not, this is the best I can do from 2,400 miles away. People on City Data forums are always asking where the safe apartments are, and since I did all this work for my own purpose of finding a place with very low crime, I thought I would share it since it was already done. It is not a be all or end all and your personal experiences may be much different than what I posted above.
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