Crime in Big Sky, Montana
Major crime in Big Sky is 19% above the U.S. rate per resident: 1.8 times for persons crimes and 6% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 18.0% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
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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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 3.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Big Sky for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
Neighborhoods in Big Sky
Big Sky is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 119; the middle half of residents live where it is between 105 and 137.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–200100.0%
- 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.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 18.0% in a year; across Montana it fell 8.4%
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.
Big Sky against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
287 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Big Sky; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Big Sky has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Bozeman (31 mi), is 11% below Big Sky's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Big Sky
What are the most common crimes in Big Sky?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 33 a year), aggravated assault (about 12 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 3 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 3.1 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. Big Sky's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Big Sky 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: 2,801. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Big Sky, Montana." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mt/big-sky
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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