County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Butte-Silver Bow County, MT
Butte-Silver Bow County (35,133 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Montana. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Butte-Silver Bow County, MT reported 501 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Butte-Silver Bow County, MT agencies reported 176 violent and 854 property offenses. That equals about 501 violent and 2431 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
176 violent offenses
501/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Butte-Silver Bow County, MT
Position in the state cohort
Butte-Silver Bow County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Montana counties
At 501.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Butte-Silver Bow County ranks 3 of 56 — above 53 of the 55 other Montana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +269.1% 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.
2021–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 344.4 per 100,000 in 2021 to 501.0 in 2024 (+45.5%). The highest observed value was 501.0 in 2024 and the lowest 333.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 17.1% of the 1,030 Part I offenses reported in Butte-Silver Bow County for 2024, against a median of 33.3% across comparable Montana counties — a gap of 16.2 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.
Share of the state cohort
Butte-Silver Bow County carries a large share of the reporting cohort’s total offenses
The 1,030 Part I offenses reported here are 16.4% of the 6,282 reported across all 56 comparable Montana counties in 2024. A county this large moves the statewide total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 35,133 rather than as a uniform shift.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 82.4% of reported property offenses in Butte-Silver Bow County, against a cohort median of 72.0%. The remainder is burglary (52) and motor vehicle theft (98). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
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
854
Burglary
52
Larceny-Theft
704
Motor Vehicle Theft
98
Arson
8
Violent Crime
176
Murder
0
Rape
10
Robbery
6
Aggravated Assault
160
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.