Cut Bank, MT has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1032 per 100,000, 193% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Cut Bank is a small municipal reporter (3,004 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MT and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Cut Bank, MT carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 193% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cut Bank, MT shows violent crime at 1,032 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,660.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 193% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 1032.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cut Bank ranks 1 of 44 — above 43 of the 43 other Montana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +202.3% against the cohort median of 341.3. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Cut Bank's 1032.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Polson (987.9), Billings (746.1), Glendive (670.3), Lewistown (644.1). 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 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 748.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1032.0 in 2024 (+38.0%). The highest observed value was 1032.0 in 2024 and the lowest 627.7 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Cut Bank'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 1.2 Census sq mi, Cut Bank logged 121 property and 26.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Cut Bank's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 171 offenses; mix index 5,457).
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Cut Bank offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.2 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 | 140 | 4660.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 123 | 4094.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 13 | 432.8 |
| Burglary | 4 | 133.2 |
| Arson | 1 | 33.3 |
| Violent Crime | 31 | 1032 |
| Aggravated Assault | 25 | 832.2 |
| Rape | 4 | 133.2 |
| Murder | 1 | 33.3 |
| Robbery | 1 | 33.3 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 3,075 | 748 | 2569.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 3,028 | 825.6 | 2212.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 3,053 | 949.9 | 2456.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 3,027 | 627.7 | 3832.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,004 | 1032 | 4660.5 |
Cut Bank Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Cut Bank's 171 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
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 Montana cities closest to Cut Bank in population. Their populations run from 2,278 to 3,677, against 3,004 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Cut Bank sits at 1,032/100K violent (grade F); the Montana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Cut Bank reported 31 violent crimes and 140 property crimes, for a total of 171 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Cut Bank's violent crime rate increased by 64.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 21.6%.
The most common crime type in Cut Bank is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.9% of all reported crimes (123 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Cut Bank is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Cut Bank's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Cut Bank, MT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Cut Bank is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (3,004 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.