New Study Has Dillon As Montana's Safest City; Billings #23

Using 2018 FBI data from more than 13,000 law enforcement agencies in cities with populations over 2,500, SafeHome.org has ranked the 25 Safest Cities in Montana.

The following rankings were based on FBI data that included population, property crimes, violent crime trend, violent crimes, citizen to officer ratio and property crime trend:

Dillon
Conrad
Glasgow
Sidney
Miles City
Lewistown
Belgrade
Cut Bank
Glendive
Columbia Falls
Bozeman
Whitefish
Laurel
Wolf Point
Deer Lodge
Livingston
Hamilton
Libby
Havre
Helena
Great Falls
Missoula
Billings
Kalispell
Polson

While Sidney was ranked the fourth safest city in the Big Sky, and in the top 25th percentile in the U.S., they had the highest increase in Violent Crime Trend, 195 percent, with 37 violent crimes in 2018. Laurel was ranked #13 on the list with Violent Crimes down more than 50 percent. According to the study, Violent Crimes are up 16.3 percent in Billings while Property Crimes rose by 5.1 percent.

Due to Montana being so large, its population density is a low seven people per square mile. This disqualifies most of the cities within the state to rank amongst the safest cities in the nation. However, the 3 bigger cities of the state did make it onto the top 750 safest cities in the country. Within the state, the 25 safest cities range from an impressively high safety score of 95.9, down to 57.08. Twenty of those cities have safety rankings above 70, which is very good. - SafeHome.org

CLICK HERE to see individual city stats for the 25 Safest Cities in Montana.