Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site on September 23, 2026.
Loudon County, Tennessee, has about 62,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Loudon County Sheriff's Office and two city agencies. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney General files charges, a case in the Loudon County Circuit and Chancery Courts. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Loudon County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Loudon County
The Loudon County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Loudon County. It reported 1,006 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside two of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Lenoir City, 12,041 residents: 594 arrests reported for 2025.
- Loudon, 6,942 residents: 321 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Loudon County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Loudon County Sheriff's Office: 1,006 for 2025, 1,283 for 2024, 1,454 for 2023, 1,449 for 2022, 1,413 for 2021 and 1,133 for 2020.
- Lenoir City: 594 for 2025, 730 for 2024, 992 for 2023, 992 for 2022, 1,026 for 2021 and 734 for 2020.
- Loudon: 321 for 2025, 226 for 2024, 52 for 2023, 93 for 2021, 124 for 2020 and 103 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,921 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,921 in 2025 against 2,239 in 2024, down 14 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,123 arrests, against 1,337 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Loudon County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Loudon County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 120 people, down from about 170 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 271 beds, and it ran at 45 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Loudon County Sheriff's Office at loudonsheriff.gov/news (page title: News, Loudon County Sheriff's Office), 12680 Hwy 11 W Suite 1, Lenoir City, TN 37771, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Tennessee Department of Correction lists its inmates at foil.app.tn.gov/foil/search.jsp.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Loudon County
An arrest in Loudon County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Loudon County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at loudoncounty-tn.gov/court-system, phone (865) 458-2630); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-9).
Tennessee is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: TORIS lets anyone run a name-based criminal history search online, for $29 a search, through the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Loudon County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Tennessee Public Records Act the agency must answer within 7 business days, and it may charge copying, and labor after the first hour.
- An arrest by the Loudon County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Lenoir City or Loudon: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney General handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Loudon County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at loudoncounty-tn.gov/court-system, phone (865) 458-2630.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at loudoncounty-tn.gov/public-records-requests (page title: Public Records Requests | The Official Website of Loudon County, TN).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Loudon County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the four cities in Loudon County: Lenoir City and Loudon. Greenback and Philadelphia have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Loudon County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Loudon County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Lenoir City (12,041)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Loudon County each year?
The Loudon County Sheriff's Office reported 1,006 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,921 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Loudon County?
Ask the Loudon County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at loudonsheriff.gov/news.
Where are people arrested in Loudon County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Loudon County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Loudon County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation: TORIS lets anyone run a name-based criminal history search online, for $29. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Tennessee Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Loudon County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Loudon County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Tennessee Public Records Act the answer is due within 7 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at loudoncounty-tn.gov/public-records-requests.
Is this the official Loudon County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.