Photo: Vasiliymeshko · CC BY-SA 4.0In Rock Springs, the kinds of crime the grade counts fell 42% per resident from 2023 to 2025
Taking everything together, Rock Springs scores B− (#12 of 19 graded towns in Wyoming): close to the middle of U.S. towns, measured on crimes its police reported between 2023 and 2025. On top of that, the yearly rates were 1.5 violent crimes and 12.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 2.4 and 17.7 in the rest of Wyoming.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of WY” is every other Wyoming 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 Rock Springs
Among Wyoming towns, closer to the middle
Wyoming’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Rock Springs’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 37% of the 19 Wyoming towns we grade, against 51% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
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 Rock Springs’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Rock Springs’ grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (12.2) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Rock Springs property | Rest of Wyoming property | Rock Springs violent | Rest of Wyoming violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 12.6 | 20.3 | 1.7 | 2.3 |
| 2023 | 15.4 | 20.9 | 1.8 | 2.4 |
| 2024 | 12.8 | 17.5 | 1.3 | 2.5 |
| 2025 | 8.5 | 14.9 | 1.4 | 2.3 |
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 Wyoming.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Rock Springs | Rest of Wyoming | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.3 | 2.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Rock Springs’ police reported 101 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.5 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.4 in the rest of Wyoming and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Rock Springs 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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
225 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.
32 violent and 193 property, as reported to the FBI by Rock Springs’ police.
Six people died in crashes on Rock Springs’s roads in 2019–2023
Rock Springs had 6 fatal crashes in five years, in which six people died; 2 were cyclists. Most of these deaths (4 of 6) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is about what is typical for Wyoming towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (3.7 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Rock Springs’s size would see about 4 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Rock Springs’s own rate (5.2) 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.
Rock Springs and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Springs | B− | 1.5 | 12.2 |
| North Rock Springs | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. North Rock Springs is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
Wyoming towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Springs | B− | 1.5 | 12.2 |
| Sheridan | B | 1.1 | 10.2 |
| Laramie | B− | 1.3 | 11.9 |
| Gillette | C+ | 2.2 | 15.9 |
| Evanston | C | 2.9 | 14.5 |
The five graded Wyoming towns closest to Rock Springs’ population (22,936), 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 Rock Springs. 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 Rock Springs’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (22,837 in 2025); our figure for Rock Springs is 22,936 (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 Rock Springs
Is Rock Springs, WY safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Rock Springs reports less crime per resident than 51% of U.S. towns, a B− Safety Grade and #12 of 19 in Wyoming. Its police reported 1.5 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.4 in the rest of Wyoming and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Rock Springs?
1.5 violent and 12.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Wyoming reports 2.4 and 17.7; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Rock Springs?
Rock Springs’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Rock Springs”. 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.