Crime in Missoula, Montana
Major crime in Missoula is 1.7 times the U.S. rate per resident: 1.6 times for persons crimes and 1.7 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 14.0% 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.
Check an address in Missoula
Shoplifting stands out most, at 2.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Missoula 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 Missoula
The middle half of Missoula residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 57 and 218; the typical (median) resident's is 99. The citywide figure (165) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5018.7%
- 50–10031.6%
- 100–20022.8%
- 200–40016.6%
- 400+10.3%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 14.0% 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.
Missoula against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
69 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Missoula; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Missoula 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, Orchard Homes (2 mi), is 61% below Missoula's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Missoula
What are the most common crimes in Missoula?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 760 a year), other larceny (about 596 a year) and aggravated assault (about 306 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 2.9 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. Missoula's figures add up its 55 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Missoula has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 84.8% 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: 81,412. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Missoula, Montana." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mt/missoula
Use these numbers in your product
Any U.S. address by API or MCP, free for 10,000 lookups a month.
Get a free API keyNearest cities we publish
Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Orchard Homes2 mi65
- Hamilton43 mi132
- Polson58 mi190
- Deer Lodge69 mi58
- Anaconda-Deer Lodge County72 mi53
- Lakeside82 mi59
- Bigfork84 mi49
- Butte-Silver Bow93 mi130