Nashville · Drugs & public health

See the trend.

What changed, how much, and over which years.

Explore recorded drug offences and available overdose deaths. Each measure keeps its own definition and geography.

Death figures cover Davidson County, Tennessee, including areas beyond Nashville. Source: CDC/NCHS. Original data are available free from CDC. This use does not imply endorsement by CDC, HHS or the U.S. Government.

01 / Police data

Drug offence trends

Select a measure to inspect its trend. Missing years stay blank; partial years stay separate.

Nashville

Drug/narcotic violations

Last updated 2026-10-01Reviewed dataset

Latest complete year · 20253,246police reports

Year over year+5.8%2024 → 2025

Change since 2019−26.0%2019 → 2025

police reports2025 · 3,246

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Drug/narcotic violations · police reports · complete years
Year	Value
2019	4,388
2020	2,918
2021	2,568
2022	2,852
2023	3,387
2024	3,068
2025	3,246

02 / Public health

Overdose deaths

Deaths are a separate measure. Police counts do not measure overdose deaths or drug use.

Davidson County, Tennessee · county context

Drug overdose deaths · county residents

Last updated 2026-10-01Reviewed dataset

Latest complete year · 2024394deaths

Year over year−26.1%2023 → 2024

Change since 2020−10.3%2020 → 2024

deaths2024 · 394

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Drug overdose deaths · county residents · deaths · complete years
Year	Value
2020	439
2021	529
2022	539
2023	533
2024	394

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03 / Behind the numbers

Sources & coverage

Last updated 2026-10-01 · accepted source review.

The extract begins in 2019. 2016–2018 are absent and are not filled in. ZIP code is the crime geography elsewhere; this page does not map drug counts.
There is no neighbourhood drug map.
These measures are not added into a drug index or used to rank cities. There is no neighbourhood drug map.

Metro Nashville Police Department · MNPD incidents

Open source ↗ · Last updated 2026-10-01 (reviewed)

· Metro Nashville open data. Offense totals use the NIBRS code on the incident extract.

CDC / National Center for Health Statistics · County-level drug overdose death counts — December annual totals

Open source ↗ · Last updated 2026-10-01 (reviewed)

Davidson County, Tennessee · county context · Public Domain U.S. Government; attribution and non-endorsement notice retained.

Completeness of provisional 2019 data under 90% after 6 months.