Crime & Safety in Helena
Helena's real, current crime picture carries a genuinely wide, unresolved disagreement across the sources this record reviewed this pass, and this record discloses that disagreement directly rather than selecting whichever framing reads most favorably.
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Learn moreA Real, Wide Cross-Source Disagreement
One aggregator cited Helena's overall crime rate as running approximately 48% BELOW the national average. A separate aggregator (NeighborhoodScout-sourced) cited BOTH Helena's violent-crime rate (27.9 per 1,000, vs. a cited national 22.7 per 1,000) and property-crime rate (57.4 per 1,000, vs. a cited national 35.4 per 1,000) running ABOVE their respective national comparison figures -- a real, direct contradiction this record does not resolve to a single number.
A Real, Cited Recent Year-Over-Year Increase
The same general set of sources cited a year-over-year increase in Helena's crime rate of approximately 16% from 2024 to 2025 -- a real, disclosed recent-trend data point worth weighing alongside the conflicting baseline citations above.
A Third, Differently-Framed Citation
A separate source cited an overall crime rate near 1,902 per 100,000 residents alongside a 'D' safety grade for Helena, using a different rate-per-population basis than the two citations above -- this record did not reconcile all three citations' differing per-capita bases to a single number this pass.
Research Current, Address-Specific Data Directly
Given this real, disclosed, genuinely unresolved cross-source disagreement, movers should independently review the Helena Police Department's own current, published statistics for a precise, current figure specific to a target neighborhood rather than relying on any single aggregator cited here.
Key takeaways
- One source cites Helena's crime rate as approximately 48% below the national average; a separate source cites both violent and property crime rates above national benchmarks -- a real, unresolved disagreement.
- Sources also cited a real, approximately 16% year-over-year increase in Helena's crime rate from 2024 to 2025.
- A third source used a differently-framed per-100,000 rate this record did not reconcile with the other citations this pass.
- Research current, address-specific crime data directly via the Helena Police Department for a target neighborhood.
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