Crime in Helena, Montana
Major crime in Helena is 1.8 times the U.S. rate per resident: 1.6 times for persons crimes and 1.8 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are about flat 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 3.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Helena 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 Helena
The middle half of Helena residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 77 and 293; the typical (median) resident's is 136. The citywide figure (179) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–509.9%
- 50–10029.5%
- 100–20026.2%
- 200–40028.4%
- 400+6.0%
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 rose 0.7% 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.
Helena against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
77 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Helena; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Helena 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, Helena Valley West Central (4 mi), is 47% below Helena's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Helena
What are the most common crimes in Helena?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 518 a year), shoplifting (about 160 a year) and aggravated assault (about 133 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 3.3 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. Helena's figures add up its 27 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Helena has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 52.5% 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: 35,176. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Helena, Montana." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mt/helena
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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