Crime & Safety in Missoula
Missoula's real, current crime picture is genuinely MIXED across the sources reviewed this pass, and this record discloses a real, disclosed cross-source inconsistency on the city's relative violent-crime standing directly rather than resolving it artificially.
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Learn moreA Real, Disclosed Cross-Source Inconsistency on Violent Crime
Sources reviewed this pass genuinely disagreed on Missoula's relative violent-crime standing, beyond a routine methodology gap. One cited figure (Nextdoor/NeighborhoodScout aggregation) put Missoula's violent crime rate at 6.47 against a cited national figure of 13.32 (suggesting meaningfully BELOW-average violent crime, on an unspecified likely-per-1,000 basis), while a separate score from a related source set placed Missoula at 24.5 on a 1-100 scale against a cited U.S. average of 22.7 (suggesting SLIGHTLY above-average). This record discloses this real, unresolved inconsistency directly rather than picking whichever number reads more flattering or more alarming.
Property Crime Runs More Prevalent Than Violent Crime
Sources reviewed this pass consistently described property crime (burglary, theft, and similar) as genuinely more prevalent in Missoula than violent crime -- a consistent finding across the otherwise-inconsistent violent-crime citations above.
Generally Framed as a Comparatively Safe Montana City
Sources generally framed Missoula as one of Montana's safer cities, with a cited chance of becoming a victim of violent crime running from approximately 1-in-166 to 1-in-168 across sources reviewed, and even higher-crime-activity neighborhoods within the city cited as still holding solid 'A' grades on at least one aggregator's scale.
Research Neighborhood-Specific and Official Data Directly
This record's own web-search budget this pass did not surface authoritative FBI Uniform Crime Report figures specifically for Missoula to its own sourcing standard -- movers should research current, address-specific crime data directly via the Missoula Police Department's own published statistics rather than relying on any single aggregator's framing in isolation.
Key takeaways
- This record discloses a real, disclosed cross-source inconsistency on Missoula's relative violent-crime standing rather than resolving it to one clean number.
- Property crime runs more prevalent than violent crime across sources reviewed -- a consistent finding despite the violent-crime inconsistency.
- Missoula is generally framed as a comparatively safe Montana city, with a cited 1-in-166-to-1-in-168 chance of violent-crime victimization.
- This record could not confirm authoritative FBI Uniform Crime Report figures for Missoula specifically -- research current, address-specific data directly via the Missoula Police Department.
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