Casper, WY has a C safety grade (53/100) with a violent crime rate of 289 per 100,000, 18% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 58,526 residents, Casper is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against WY and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Casper, WY carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 18% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Casper, WY shows violent crime at 288.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,111.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 18% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Casper's 288.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Dubois (294.4), Powell (322.6), Cheyenne (328.5), Green River (228.2). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
2020–2024 direction
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 212.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 288.8 in 2024 (+35.6%). The highest observed value was 288.8 in 2024 and the lowest 212.9 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 288.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Casper ranks 9 of 28 — above 19 of the 27 other Wyoming cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +111.9% against the cohort median of 136.3. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Share of the state cohort
The 1,405 Part I offenses reported here are 21.2% of the 6,631 reported across all 28 comparable Wyoming cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 58,526 rather than as a uniform shift.
Property counts dominate Casper's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 26.8 Census sq mi, Casper logged 46.2 property and 6.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Casper's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 1,405 offenses; mix index 5,170).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Casper offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (26.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 1,236 | 2111.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 986 | 1684.7 |
| Burglary | 145 | 247.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 105 | 179.4 |
| Arson | 5 | 8.5 |
| Violent Crime | 169 | 288.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 123 | 210.2 |
| Rape | 33 | 56.4 |
| Robbery | 9 | 15.4 |
| Murder | 4 | 6.8 |
The chart omits 2021, 2022 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 58,244 | 212.9 | 2865.5 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 58,840 | - | - |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 58,076 | - | - |
| 2023 | Comparable | 58,169 | 259.6 | 2599.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 58,526 | 288.8 | 2111.9 |
Casper Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Casper's 1,405 reported offenses (3-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Wyoming cities closest to Casper in population. Their populations run from 11,005 to 65,143, against 58,526 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Casper sits at 288.8/100K violent (grade C); the Wyoming cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Casper at 288.8/100K violent and 2,111.9/100K property - matched below outside Wyoming (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
288.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,111.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+11.2% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Casper reported 169 violent crimes and 1,236 property crimes, for a total of 1,405 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Casper's violent crime rate increased by 11.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 18.8%.
The most common crime type in Casper is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.2% of all reported crimes (986 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Casper's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Casper's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Casper, WY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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