CrimeMetric

Crime in Belgrade, Montana

Major crime in Belgrade is 8% below the U.S. rate per resident: 6% higher for persons crimes and 11% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.9% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
92
8% below the U.S. rate
11% below the Montana rate
down 7.9% in a year
Persons crimes
106
6% above the U.S. rate
15% below the Montana rate
down 5.2% in a year
Property crimes
89
11% below the U.S. rate
10% below the Montana rate
down 8.6% in a year
Social disorder
76
25% below the U.S. rate
8% below the Montana rate
down 7.2% in a year

Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.

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Crime by type

Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 1.9 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Belgrade for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Belgrade

The middle half of Belgrade residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 51 and 154; the typical (median) resident's is 70. The citywide figure (92) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Belgrade, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–10066.1%
  • 100–20033.9%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm128
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am61
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm90
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am57
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.9% in a year; across Montana it fell 8.4%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.9%MT -8.4%+0.6%MT -9.1%
Persons crimes-5.2%MT -10.7%+13.5%MT +3.0%
Property crimes-8.6%MT -7.7%-2.8%MT -12.4%
Social disorder-7.2%MT -8.4%+4.4%MT -4.0%

Change in expected crimes, with Montana as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.

Similar-size places

Belgrade against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

788 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Belgrade; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Dickson, TN13,649130
Belgrade, MT13,66292
Chatham, IL13,63738
Oakland, TN13,66133
Oak Park, CA13,67926
Minooka, IL13,67819

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Belgrade has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Bozeman (9 mi), is 15% above Belgrade's rate.

Helena69 mi179
Big Sky37 mi119
Bozeman9 mi106
Belgrade92
Livingston31 mi88
Dillon80 mi35

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Belgrade

What are the most common crimes in Belgrade?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 97 a year), aggravated assault (about 35 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 31 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 1.9 times the U.S. rate per resident.

How we calculated this

Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Belgrade's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Belgrade has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
  • Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
  • Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
  • Residents: 13,662. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Belgrade, Montana." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mt/belgrade

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100