Crime Grade · Montana

Safest Cities in Montana

7 reporting Montana cities ranked safest to least safe, by FBI violent crime rate per 100,000 residents. Data from the FBI Crime Data Explorer.

State median violent crime rate: 565.3 per 100,000. Cities with population ≥ 10,000. Letter grade is the national decile against all FBI-reporting U.S. cities — same grade everywhere on this site.

Rank	City	Population	Violent / 100k	Grade
1	Belgrade	13,314	330.5	B4/10
2	Bozeman	58,949	380.0	B5/10
3	Kalispell	33,020	402.8	B5/10
4	Helena	35,377	565.3	C6/10
5	Missoula	79,184	586.0	C6/10
6	Great Falls	59,904	609.3	C6/10
7	Billings	122,571	759.6	C7/10

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About this ranking

Cities are ranked by the FBI's reported violent crime rate per 100,000 residents for the most recent fully-reported year (see individual city pages for the year shown). The list is restricted to cities with population ≥ 10,000 that report to the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer. Refreshed every six months.