Known for its picturesque natural setting, Bloomington Springs is an unincorporated community in Putnam County, Tennessee. Its post office has the ZIP code 38545, and is located near the intersection of Tennessee State Routes 291 and 56. The community is about ten miles north of Baxter and ten miles west of Cookeville. The population of the town is estimated to be about 2,300.
Crime in Bloomington Springs varies greatly by neighborhood. Some neighborhoods are safer than others, but the rate of crime in some areas can be as high as one in every twenty-five. This may be misleading because crime rates may be higher in some neighborhoods than in others. The best way to understand the crime rate in a city is to compare it to crime rates in nearby neighborhoods. However, this is not always a straightforward process. Using the city's crime map, a basic crime count is visible. It shows that there are six crimes per year in the east of the city, while the rate is significantly lower in the west.
The population in Bloomington Springs City was largely divided by age. Twenty-five percent of the residents were under the age of eighteen, nine percent were between the ages of twenty-four and forty-four, and one percent of people lived alone. Fifty-three percent of households were married, and forty-one percent were non-families. Only 7.9% of the city's residents were over the age of sixty-four, making the population of the city around twenty-three thousand.