Glacier County Courthouse · Photo: J.B. Chandler · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Cut Bank records more crime than 97% of U.S. towns
From 2023 to 2025, crimes Cut Bank’s police reported put it at D− for safety. In a usual year, 7.6 violent crimes and 45.3 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the rest of Montana, 5.5 and 25.7.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of MT” is every other Montana city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What’s behind Cut Bank’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Cut Bank | Rest of Montana | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 9.5 | 6.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 6.3 | 5.8 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 10.3 | 5.3 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 6.1 | 5.4 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Cut Bank’s police reported 68 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 7.6 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.5 in the rest of Montana and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Cut Bank per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 6 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Cut Bank property | Rest of Montana property | Cut Bank violent | Rest of Montana violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 24.6 | 31.1 | 9.5 | 6.0 |
| 2023 | 37.3 | 29.4 | 6.3 | 5.8 |
| 2024 | 46.6 | 25.3 | 10.3 | 5.3 |
| 2025 | 52.2 | 22.5 | 6.1 | 5.4 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Montana.
173 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
18 violent and 155 property, as reported to the FBI by Cut Bank’s police.
No one died in a crash on Cut Bank’s roads in 2019–2023
That is about what is typical for Montana towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (0.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Cut Bank’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Cut Bank’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Cut Bank and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cut Bank | D− | 7.6 | 45.3 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Montana towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cut Bank | D− | 7.6 | 45.3 |
| Libby | B | 2.5 | 6.2 |
| Red Lodge | B− | 3.7 | 3.5 |
| Deer Lodge | C+ | 3.7 | 8.1 |
| Glasgow | C+ | 3.6 | 11.1 |
| Wolf Point | C− | 6.8 | 8.0 |
The five graded Montana towns closest to Cut Bank’s population (2,976), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Cut Bank. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Cut Bank’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (2,972 in 2025); our figure for Cut Bank is 2,976 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Cut Bank
Is Cut Bank, MT safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Cut Bank reports more crime per resident than 97% of U.S. towns, a D− Safety Grade. Its police reported 7.6 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.5 in the rest of Montana and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Cut Bank?
7.6 violent and 45.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Montana reports 5.5 and 25.7; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Cut Bank?
Cut Bank’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Cut Bank”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.