Livingston, MT has a D safety grade (29/100) with a violent crime rate of 596 per 100,000, 69% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Livingston is a small municipal reporter (9,057 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MT and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Livingston, MT carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 69% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Livingston, MT shows violent crime at 596.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,324.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 69% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D 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 Livingston's 596.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Missoula (596.9), Havre (578.9), Great Falls (574.4), Troy (641.7). 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 596.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Livingston ranks 8 of 44 — above 36 of the 43 other Montana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +74.7% 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 418.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 596.2 in 2024 (+42.6%). The highest observed value was 596.2 in 2024 and the lowest 362.5 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 31.0% of the 174 Part I offenses reported in Livingston for 2024, against a median of 19.0% across comparable Montana cities — a gap of 12.0 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 Livingston'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 6 Census sq mi, Livingston logged 20 property and 9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Livingston's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 174 offenses; mix index 4,668).
Violent offenses are 31% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Livingston offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6 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 | 120 | 1324.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 110 | 1214.5 |
| Burglary | 7 | 77.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 33.1 |
| Arson | 2 | 22.1 |
| Violent Crime | 54 | 596.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 43 | 474.8 |
| Rape | 11 | 121.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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 | 7,892 | 418.1 | 2242.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 7,991 | 438 | 2665.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,552 | 362.5 | 2326.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,965 | 535.4 | 2208.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,057 | 596.2 | 1324.9 |
Livingston Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Livingston's 174 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 Livingston in population. Their populations run from 5,770 to 9,648, against 9,057 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Livingston sits at 596.2/100K violent (grade D); the Montana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Livingston reported 54 violent crimes and 120 property crimes, for a total of 174 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Livingston's violent crime rate increased by 11.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 40%.
The most common crime type in Livingston is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.2% of all reported crimes (110 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Livingston 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 Livingston's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Livingston, 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. Livingston is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (9,057 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.