Charles Boles House · Photo: Jon Roanhaus · CC BY-SA 4.0Kalispell sees more crime per resident than 80% of U.S. towns
The local count comes to 3.7 violent crimes and 21.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 5.7 and 26.1 in the rest of Montana. By contrast, its letter for safety is C−, worked out from crimes Kalispell’s police reported over 2023 to 2025: #16 of 26 graded towns in Montana.
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 stands out about safety in Kalispell
Among Montana towns, closer to the middle
Montana’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Kalispell’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 38% of the 26 Montana towns we grade, against 20% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Kalispell has 19,273 jobs based in town for 31,851 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Kalispell’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.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Kalispell property | Rest of Montana property | Kalispell violent | Rest of Montana violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 26.1 | 31.3 | 5.0 | 6.1 |
| 2023 | 24.5 | 29.8 | 4.2 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 22.3 | 25.6 | 2.9 | 5.5 |
| 2025 | 17.1 | 23.0 | 4.1 | 5.5 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Montana.
Crime in Kalispell 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 4 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Kalispell | Rest of Montana | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.0 | 6.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 4.2 | 5.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.9 | 5.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 4.1 | 5.5 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Kalispell’s police reported 354 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.7 in the rest of Montana and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
700 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.
134 violent and 566 property, as reported to the FBI by Kalispell’s police.
Seven people died in crashes on Kalispell’s roads in 2019–2023
Kalispell had 7 fatal crashes in five years, in which seven people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is about what is typical for Montana towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (5.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Kalispell’s size would see about 8 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Kalispell’s own rate (4.9) 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.
Kalispell and its neighbors
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Evergreen is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
Montana towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kalispell | C− | 3.7 | 21.2 |
| Bozeman | C− | 4.1 | 17.5 |
| Helena | D | 5.9 | 28.2 |
| Great Falls | D | 5.9 | 39.2 |
The five graded Montana towns closest to Kalispell’s population (31,851), 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 Kalispell. 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 Kalispell’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (33,020 in 2025); our figure for Kalispell is 31,851 (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 Kalispell
Is Kalispell, MT safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Kalispell reports more crime per resident than 80% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #16 of 26 in Montana. Its police reported 3.7 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.7 in the rest of Montana and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Kalispell?
3.7 violent and 21.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Montana reports 5.7 and 26.1; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Kalispell in 2025?
Kalispell’s police reported 3 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 9.1 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Kalispell?
Kalispell’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Kalispell”. 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.