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Wyoming Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing Wyoming 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.

Cities ranked
10
Supported Wyoming cities with tract-backed crime context.
Leaderboard

Current order from the latest data

Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.

#PlaceMetric
1 Riverton
Violent Crime has increased 22% since 2021.
7.7 / 1k
2 Torrington
Violent Crime has increased 96% since 2021.
5.3 / 1k
3 Casper
Violent Crime has declined 3% since 2023.
3.1 / 1k
4 Cheyenne
Violent Crime has declined 12% since 2021.
3.0 / 1k
5 Gillette
Violent Crime has declined 3% since 2021.
2.8 / 1k
6 Sheridan
Violent Crime has increased 11% since 2021.
2.1 / 1k
7 Jackson
Violent Crime moved up by 1.5 / 1k from 0.2 / 1k in 2021 to 1.7 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.
1.7 / 1k
8 Rock Springs
Violent Crime has declined 45% since 2021.
1.6 / 1k
9 Rawlins
Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend.
1.3 / 1k
10 Laramie
Violent Crime has declined 50% since 2021.
1.2 / 1k
Research notes

How to read this ranking

Research note

What this ranking means

This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Wyoming 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.

Research note

What this ranking can miss

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.