City Population Violent / 100K Property / 100K Grade
Billings 122,105 746.1 3,083.4 F
Missoula 78,911 596.9 3,629.4 F
Great Falls 60,414 574.4 3,426.4 F
Bozeman 58,509 434.1 1,755.3 C
Helena 35,238 513.7 2,582.4 D
Kalispell 31,754 292.9 2,226.5 C
Belgrade 13,184 341.3 1,152.9 C
Whitefish 9,648 124.4 1,088.3 A
Havre 9,328 578.9 3,291.2 F
Livingston 9,057 596.2 1,324.9 D
Miles City 8,464 307.2 744.3 B
Laurel 7,185 542.8 3,604.7 F
Lewistown 6,210 644.1 1,207.7 D
Sidney 6,031 464.3 696.4 C
Columbia Falls 5,838 274.1 1,593 C
Polson 5,770 987.9 3,119.6 F
Hamilton 5,463 329.5 2,361.3 C
Glendive 4,774 670.3 921.7 D
Dillon 4,278 420.8 350.6 C
Hardin 3,677 190.4 652.7 A
Libby 3,306 151.2 756.2 A
Glasgow 3,175 503.9 1,102.4 C
Deer Lodge 3,032 461.7 758.6 C
Cut Bank 3,004 1,032 4,660.5 F
Red Lodge 2,736 182.7 402 A
Wolf Point 2,479 484.1 484.1 C
Conrad 2,434 246.5 739.5 B
Stevensville 2,278 43.9 746.3 A
Ronan City 2,243 535 2,719.6 F
East Helena 2,206 136 1,677.2 B
Manhattan 2,115 189.1 803.8 B
Colstrip 2,044 0 97.8 A+
Columbus 1,919 260.6 1,928.1 C
Baker 1,802 222 166.5 A
Eureka 1,585 189.3 378.5 A
Thompson Falls 1,519 329.2 526.7 B
Plains 1,261 0 396.5 A+
West Yellowstone 1,206 82.9 663.3 A
Chinook 1,155 519.5 432.9 C
Ennis 1,092 0 457.9 A+
Troy 935 641.7 1,711.2 F
St. Ignatius 836 478.5 9,330.1 F
Bridger 732 0 136.6 A+
Hot Springs 636 471.7 628.9 C
Showing cities 1–44 of 44 in Montana, by population. See the Montana safest and most dangerous city rankings, or the Montana crime overview.

How These City Grades Are Calculated

Each grade weighs a city's violent crime rate (70%) and property crime rate (30%) against the national averages, drawn from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States, Table 8 for 2024. Rates use (offenses ÷ population) × 100,000.

UCR participation is voluntary, so not every Montana city reports every year, and small-population cities can show volatile rates where a single incident moves the per-capita figure sharply. Read the full methodology for the scoring formula and limitations.