Decision-support ranking comparing Montana cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.
Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.
| # | Place | Metric | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Billings Violent Crime has declined 31% since 2021. |
7.2 / 1k | → |
| 2 | Havre Violent Crime has declined 26% since 2021. |
7.0 / 1k | → |
| 3 | Missoula Violent Crime has declined 3% since 2021. |
6.3 / 1k | → |
| 4 | Great Falls Violent Crime has increased 14% since 2021. |
5.7 / 1k | → |
| 5 | Helena Violent Crime has declined 26% since 2021. |
5.5 / 1k | → |
| 6 | Livingston Violent Crime has increased 25% since 2021. |
5.5 / 1k | → |
| 7 | Sidney Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021. |
5.1 / 1k | → |
| 8 | Bozeman Violent Crime has increased 22% since 2021. |
4.5 / 1k | → |
| 9 | Laurel Violent Crime has declined 30% since 2021. |
4.5 / 1k | → |
| 10 | Belgrade Violent Crime has declined 10% since 2021. |
4.3 / 1k | → |
| 11 | Hamilton Violent Crime has increased 37% since 2021. |
3.7 / 1k | → |
| 12 | Kalispell Violent Crime has declined 26% since 2021. |
2.9 / 1k | → |
| 13 | Columbia Falls Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2021. |
2.7 / 1k | → |
| 14 | Whitefish Violent Crime has declined 20% since 2021. |
1.6 / 1k | → |
This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Montana cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.
A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.