CrimeMetric

Crime in Buffalo, Wyoming

Major crime in Buffalo is 64% below the U.S. rate per resident: 73% lower for persons crimes and 62% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.4% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
36
64% below the U.S. rate
46% below the Wyoming rate
down 8.4% in a year
Persons crimes
27
73% below the U.S. rate
56% below the Wyoming rate
down 5.1% in a year
Property crimes
38
62% below the U.S. rate
44% below the Wyoming rate
down 8.9% in a year
Social disorder
75
25% below the U.S. rate
32% below the Wyoming rate
down 6.7% 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

No crime type in Buffalo is more than 10% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Buffalo 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 Buffalo

The middle half of Buffalo residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 25 and 33; the typical (median) resident's is 33.

Map of Buffalo, 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.
  • 0–5076.8%
  • 50–10023.2%
  • 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 on weekday daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm41
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am31
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm39
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am28
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.4% in a year; across Wyoming it fell 9.4%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.4%WY -9.4%-11.7%WY -13.0%
Persons crimes-5.1%WY -1.9%+3.3%WY +0.1%
Property crimes-8.9%WY -10.8%-14.1%WY -15.5%
Social disorder-6.7%WY -5.1%-6.2%WY -7.8%

Change in expected crimes, with Wyoming 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

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

1,745 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Buffalo; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Summit, WI6,71638
Buffalo, WY6,71736

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

Nearby places

Buffalo 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, Sheridan (33 mi), is 1.5 times Buffalo's rate.

Casper107 mi126
Hardin, MT105 mi126
Gillette60 mi72
Powell104 mi65
Sheridan33 mi55
Mills105 mi50
Worland65 mi46
Cody115 mi40
Buffalo36

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

Questions about crime in Buffalo

What are the most common crimes in Buffalo?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 18 a year), burglary (about 6 a year) and shoplifting (about 5 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 6% 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. Buffalo's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Buffalo 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: 6,717. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Buffalo, Wyoming." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wy/buffalo

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100