CrimeMetric

Crime in Bigfork, Montana

Major crime in Bigfork is 51% below the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 62% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 27.2% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
49
51% below the U.S. rate
53% below the Montana rate
down 27.2% in a year
Persons crimes
97
about the U.S. rate
22% below the Montana rate
up 6.4% in a year
Property crimes
38
62% below the U.S. rate
61% below the Montana rate
down 38.2% in a year
Social disorder
38
62% below the U.S. rate
54% below the Montana rate
down 12.1% 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

Aggravated assault stands out most, at 14% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Bigfork 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 Bigfork

The middle half of Bigfork residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 33 and 59; the typical (median) resident's is 36. The citywide figure (49) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Bigfork, 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.
  • 0–5072.6%
  • 50–10027.4%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest at night

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm44
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am54
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm45
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am54
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 27.2% in a year; across Montana it fell 8.4%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-27.2%MT -8.4%-3.6%MT -9.1%
Persons crimes+6.4%MT -10.7%+7.5%MT +3.0%
Property crimes-38.2%MT -7.7%-9.9%MT -12.4%
Social disorder-12.1%MT -8.4%+0.5%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

Bigfork against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

1,407 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Bigfork; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

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

Nearby places

Bigfork has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Lakeside (10 mi), is 22% above Bigfork's rate.

Polson28 mi190
Missoula84 mi165
Kalispell15 mi121
Whitefish26 mi94
Evergreen14 mi60
Lakeside10 mi59
Bigfork49
Libby72 mi46

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

Questions about crime in Bigfork

What are the most common crimes in Bigfork?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 19 a year), aggravated assault (about 17 a year) and burglary (about 5 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 14% above 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. Bigfork's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Bigfork 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: 6,438. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100