County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Big Horn County, MT
Big Horn County (13,124 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Montana. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Big Horn County, MT reported 335 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Big Horn County, MT agencies reported 44 violent and 73 property offenses. That equals about 335 violent and 556 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
44 violent offenses
335/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Big Horn County, MT
Position in the state cohort
Big Horn County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Montana counties
At 335.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Big Horn County ranks 10 of 56 — above 46 of the 55 other Montana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +147.0% against the cohort median of 135.7. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 548.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 335.3 in 2024 (-38.9%). The highest observed value was 624.8 in 2021 and the lowest 266.7 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 50.7% of reported property offenses in Big Horn County, against a cohort median of 72.0%. The remainder is burglary (7) and motor vehicle theft (29). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 37.6% of the 117 Part I offenses reported in Big Horn County for 2024, against a median of 33.3% across comparable Montana counties — a gap of 4.3 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.
Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
73
Burglary
7
Larceny-Theft
37
Motor Vehicle Theft
29
Arson
0
Violent Crime
44
Murder
0
Rape
11
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
32
Reporting Agency
Big Horn County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Big Horn County's crime figures on this page originate from Big Horn County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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.
Similar-Size Counties in Montana
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.
County Table 10 totals are voluntary agency filings: incomplete coverage is not a county crime measure, and a countywide figure is not a neighbourhood verdict.