County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
At 164,731 residents, Yellowstone County is a large county in Montana. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Data updated 2026-09-05
Yellowstone County, MT reported 135 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Yellowstone County, MT agencies reported 223 violent and 579 property offenses. That equals about 135 violent and 352 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 89.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 135.4 in 2024 (+51.7%). The highest observed value was 135.4 in 2024 and the lowest 77.7 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 27.8% of the 802 Part I offenses reported in Yellowstone County for 2024, against a median of 33.3% across comparable Montana counties — a gap of 5.5 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 135.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Yellowstone County ranks 30 of 56 — above 26 of the 55 other Montana counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -0.4% against the cohort median of 135.9. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
On a large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 579 |
| Burglary | 103 |
| Larceny-Theft | 374 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 102 |
| Arson | 8 |
| Violent Crime | 223 |
| Murder | 3 |
| Rape | 22 |
| Robbery | 3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 195 |
Yellowstone County's crime figures on this page originate from Yellowstone 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.
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Montana counties closest to Yellowstone County in population. Their populations run from 70,973 to 118,960, against 164,731 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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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.
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