CrimeMetric

Crime in Red Lodge, Montana

Major crime in Red Lodge is 65% below the U.S. rate per resident: 6% lower for persons crimes and 78% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.8% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
35
65% below the U.S. rate
66% below the Montana rate
down 6.8% in a year
Persons crimes
94
6% below the U.S. rate
25% below the Montana rate
down 4.0% in a year
Property crimes
22
78% below the U.S. rate
78% below the Montana rate
down 9.2% in a year
Social disorder
109
9% above the U.S. rate
32% above the Montana rate
down 5.9% 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

Intimidation stands out most, at 2.3 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Red Lodge for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Red Lodge

Red Lodge is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 23; the middle half of residents live where it is between 23 and 25.

Map of Red Lodge, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5086.5%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–20013.5%
  • 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 on weekend daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm34
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am34
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm39
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am37
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 6.8% in a year; across Montana it fell 8.4%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-6.8%MT -8.4%+3.4%MT -9.1%
Persons crimes-4.0%MT -10.7%+13.2%MT +3.0%
Property crimes-9.2%MT -7.7%-5.8%MT -12.4%
Social disorder-5.9%MT -8.4%+5.6%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

Red Lodge against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents

1,371 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Red Lodge; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:

Ashland, AL2,973101
Red Lodge, MT2,97835
Butler, IN2,97126
Pawnee, IL2,97326

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

Nearby places

Red Lodge has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Powell (39 mi), is 1.9 times Red Lodge's rate.

Billings53 mi177
Laurel40 mi175
Hardin86 mi126
Bozeman94 mi106
Lockwood59 mi104
Livingston71 mi88
Powell, WY39 mi65
Cody, WY48 mi40
Red Lodge35

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

Questions about crime in Red Lodge

What are the most common crimes in Red Lodge?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 7 a year), other larceny (about 5 a year) and rape / sexual assault (about 2 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 2.3 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. Red Lodge's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Red Lodge 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: 2,978. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Red Lodge, Montana." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mt/red-lodge

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100