Ronan City, MT has a F safety grade (23/100) with a violent crime rate of 535 per 100,000, 52% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Ronan City's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,243). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to MT and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Ronan City, MT carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 52% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Ronan City, MT shows violent crime at 535 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,719.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 52% 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.
Small-count caution
Ronan City reported 12 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,243. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Ronan City's 535.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Laurel (542.8), Chinook (519.5), Helena (513.7), Glasgow (503.9). 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 535.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Ronan City ranks 12 of 44 — above 32 of the 43 other Montana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +56.7% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 16.4% of the 73 Part I offenses reported in Ronan City for 2024, against a median of 19.5% across comparable Montana cities — a gap of 3.0 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 Ronan City'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.
Based on 12 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,243. 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.
Ronan City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 73 offenses; mix index 4,686).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Ronan City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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 | 61 | 2719.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 48 | 2140 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 8 | 356.7 |
| Burglary | 5 | 222.9 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 12 | 535 |
| Aggravated Assault | 10 | 445.8 |
| Rape | 2 | 89.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Montana cities closest to Ronan City in population. Their populations run from 1,802 to 2,479, against 2,243 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Ronan City sits at 535/100K violent (grade F); the Montana cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Ronan City reported 12 violent crimes and 61 property crimes, for a total of 73 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Ronan City is larceny-theft, accounting for 65.8% of all reported crimes (48 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Ronan City'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 Ronan City's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Ronan City, 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. Ronan City is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (2,243 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.