Great Falls, MT has a F safety grade (13/100) with a violent crime rate of 574 per 100,000, 63% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 60,414 residents, Great Falls is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against MT and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Great Falls, MT carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 63% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Great Falls, MT shows violent crime at 574.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,426.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 63% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Great Falls's 574.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Havre (578.9), Livingston (596.2), Missoula (596.9), Laurel (542.8). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 574.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Great Falls ranks 10 of 44 — above 34 of the 43 other Montana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +68.3% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 471.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 574.4 in 2024 (+21.9%). The highest observed value was 574.4 in 2024 and the lowest 471.3 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 14.4% of the 2,417 Part I offenses reported in Great Falls for 2024, against a median of 19.5% across comparable Montana cities — a gap of 5.1 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property counts dominate Great Falls'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 23.1 Census sq mi, Great Falls logged 89.5 property and 15 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Great Falls's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 2,417 offenses; mix index 5,191).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Great Falls offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (23.1 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 | 2,070 | 3426.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1,698 | 2810.6 |
| Burglary | 240 | 397.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 132 | 218.5 |
| Arson | 15 | 24.8 |
| Violent Crime | 347 | 574.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 265 | 438.6 |
| Rape | 54 | 89.4 |
| Robbery | 28 | 46.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 58,345 | 471.3 | 5229.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 58,265 | 559.5 | 4807.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 60,386 | 496.8 | 4504.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 60,358 | 566.6 | 4700.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 60,414 | 574.4 | 3426.4 |
Great Falls Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Great Falls's 2,417 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 Great Falls in population. Their populations run from 9,057 to 78,911, against 60,414 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Great Falls sits at 574.4/100K violent (grade F); the Montana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Great Falls at 574.4/100K violent and 3,426.4/100K property - matched below outside Montana (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
574.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
3,426.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+1.4% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Great Falls reported 347 violent crimes and 2,070 property crimes, for a total of 2,417 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Great Falls's violent crime rate increased by 1.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 27.1%.
The most common crime type in Great Falls is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.3% of all reported crimes (1,698 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Great Falls'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 Great Falls's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Great Falls, MT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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