Crime in Butte-Silver Bow, Montana
Major crime in Butte-Silver Bow is 30% above the U.S. rate per resident: 31% higher for persons crimes and 30% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.6% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 1.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Butte-Silver Bow 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
How crime varies across Butte-Silver Bow
The middle half of Butte-Silver Bow residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 63 and 159; the typical (median) resident's is 81. The citywide figure (130) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–508.1%
- 50–10050.8%
- 100–20018.3%
- 200–40020.5%
- 400+2.3%
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 12.6% 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.
Butte-Silver Bow against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
186 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Butte-Silver Bow; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Butte-Silver Bow 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, Anaconda-Deer Lodge County (22 mi), is 59% below Butte-Silver Bow's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Butte-Silver Bow
What are the most common crimes in Butte-Silver Bow?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 217 a year), shoplifting (about 211 a year) and aggravated assault (about 128 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting 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. Butte-Silver Bow's figures add up its 36 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Butte-Silver Bow has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 65.6% 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: 35,579. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Butte-Silver Bow, Montana." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mt/butte-silver-bow
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Anaconda-Deer Lodge County22 mi53
- Deer Lodge30 mi58
- Helena48 mi179
- Helena Valley West Central52 mi95
- Helena Valley Southeast53 mi76
- Dillon53 mi35
- Belgrade67 mi92
- Bozeman74 mi106