Wolf Point, MT has a C safety grade (48/100) with a violent crime rate of 484 per 100,000, 38% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Wolf Point's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,479). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to MT and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Wolf Point, MT carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 38% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Wolf Point, MT shows violent crime at 484.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 484.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 38% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 50.0% of the 24 Part I offenses reported in Wolf Point for 2024, against a median of 19.0% across comparable Montana cities — a gap of 31.0 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.
Small-count caution
Wolf Point reported 12 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,479. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1202.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 484.1 in 2024 (-59.7%). The highest observed value was 1332.3 in 2023 and the lowest 484.1 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Wolf Point's 484.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are St. Ignatius (478.5), Hot Springs (471.7), Sidney (464.3), 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 66.7% of reported property offenses in Wolf Point, against a cohort median of 85.6%. The remainder is burglary (2) and motor vehicle theft (2). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 484.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Wolf Point ranks 16 of 44 — above 28 of the 43 other Montana cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +41.8% 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.
Wolf Point'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 12 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,479. 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 0.9 Census sq mi, Wolf Point logged 13.6 property and 13.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Wolf Point leans on aggravated assault at 50% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,750.
Violent offenses are 50% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
Wolf Point offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.9 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 | 12 | 484.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 8 | 322.7 |
| Burglary | 2 | 80.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 80.7 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 12 | 484.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 12 | 484.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,744 | 1202.6 | 2004.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,734 | 695 | 1060.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,620 | 839.7 | 1259.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,552 | 1332.3 | 1332.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,479 | 484.1 | 484.1 |
Wolf Point Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Wolf Point's 24 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 Wolf Point in population. Their populations run from 2,044 to 3,004, against 2,479 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Wolf Point reported 12 violent crimes and 12 property crimes, for a total of 24 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Wolf Point's violent crime rate decreased by 63.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 63.7%.
The most common crime type in Wolf Point is aggravated assault, accounting for 50.0% of all reported crimes (12 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Wolf Point'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 Wolf Point's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Wolf Point, MT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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