Hot Springs, MT has a C safety grade (48/100) with a violent crime rate of 472 per 100,000, 34% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Hot Springs's UCR row covers a small municipal population (636). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to MT and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Hot Springs, MT carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 34% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hot Springs, MT shows violent crime at 471.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 628.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 34% above 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.
Small-count caution
Hot Springs reported 3 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 636. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 42.9% of the 7 Part I offenses reported in Hot Springs for 2024, against a median of 19.0% across comparable Montana cities — a gap of 23.8 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hot Springs's 471.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are St. Ignatius (478.5), Sidney (464.3), Deer Lodge (461.7), Wolf Point (484.1). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 100.0% of reported property offenses in Hot Springs, against a cohort median of 84.2%. The remainder is burglary (0) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 471.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hot Springs ranks 18 of 44 — above 26 of the 43 other Montana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +38.2% 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.
Hot Springs's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 3 reported violent incidents in a population of 636. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 0.4 Census sq mi, Hot Springs logged 10.4 property and 7.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hot Springs's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (57% of 7 offenses; mix index 5,102).
Violent offenses are 43% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
Hot Springs offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.4 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 | 4 | 628.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 4 | 628.9 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 3 | 471.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 471.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 587 | 0 | 340.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 592 | 0 | 168.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 610 | 163.9 | 819.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 625 | 160 | 800 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 636 | 471.7 | 628.9 |
Hot Springs Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hot Springs's 7 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 Hot Springs in population. Their populations run from 732 to 1,519, against 636 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Hot Springs reported 3 violent crimes and 4 property crimes, for a total of 7 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Hot Springs's violent crime rate increased by 194.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 21.4%.
The most common crime type in Hot Springs is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.1% of all reported crimes (4 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Hot Springs's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Hot Springs's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hot Springs, 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. Hot Springs is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (636 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.