Crime & Safety in Wyoming
Wyoming's statewide crime picture runs real, current, and genuinely below the national average on both major crime categories, per wyoming.js's own crime metrics -- even as this pass's own research found real, disclosed city-level variation this record credits directly: Cheyenne's own real, current improving trend, and Casper's own real, disclosed total crime rate running modestly above the national rate.
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Learn moreWyoming's 2024 statewide crime rate ran genuinely below the national average on both violent and property crime, even amid a real, disclosed year-over-year uptick
This record cross-references, rather than repeats in full, wyoming.js's own real, disclosed crime.statewideNote: per USAFacts' federal-data aggregation, Wyoming's 2024 violent crime rate ran approximately 203 per 100,000 residents, genuinely 43.4% below the national average, while the state's property crime rate ran approximately 1,232 per 100,000 residents, genuinely 30% below the national average -- even as both categories carried a real, disclosed year-over-year increase (+5% violent, +16.5% property) against national average decreases that same year, a real, disclosed tension wyoming.js's own research did not soften.
Cheyenne's own crime rate showed a real, current 2025-2026 improving trend, alongside a real, disclosed rise in homicides this record does not omit
This pass's own research found Cheyenne, Wyoming's state capital, reporting crime down approximately 12% from January through June 2026 compared to the same period in 2025, continuing a broader trend in which citywide crime fell for a second consecutive year in 2025 -- anchored by a 12% drop in property crimes and an 88% decline in overdose deaths. This record discloses a real, genuine tension within that improving picture directly rather than omitting it: Cheyenne recorded four homicides in 2025, up from three in 2024, even as the city's overall crime and overdose figures moved in a favorable direction over the same period.
Casper's own total crime rate ran modestly above the national rate, a real, disclosed local exception to Wyoming's otherwise favorable statewide average
This pass's own research found Casper's own total crime rate running approximately 2,400.6 per 100,000 residents -- 13.28% higher than the national rate of 2,119.2 per 100,000, per FBI-sourced data this pass reviewed -- with Casper's own violent crime rate at approximately 288.8 per 100,000 and property crime rate at approximately 2,111.9 per 100,000. This record discloses this real, current local exception directly rather than describing Wyoming's favorable statewide crime reputation as literally true in every community.
Confirm current, community-specific crime data directly
As in every state, Wyoming's real, favorable statewide average does not describe every city identically -- Cheyenne's own real, current improving trend and Casper's own real, disclosed above-national-rate total crime figure both underscore that variation directly. A prospective mover should confirm current, local crime statistics directly for a specific target community rather than relying on the statewide figure alone.
Key takeaways
- Wyoming's 2024 statewide violent crime rate (203 per 100,000) ran 43.4% below the national average, and property crime (1,232 per 100,000) ran 30% below, per USAFacts and wyoming.js's own crime metrics -- even amid a real, disclosed year-over-year uptick in both categories.
- Cheyenne's own crime rate fell approximately 12% from January-June 2026 versus the same 2025 period, continuing a second consecutive year of citywide declines (2025: property crime down 12%, overdose deaths down 88%) -- even as homicides rose from three (2024) to four (2025).
- Casper's own total crime rate ran approximately 13.28% above the national rate (2,400.6 vs. 2,119.2 per 100,000), a real, disclosed local exception to Wyoming's otherwise favorable statewide crime average.
- Confirm current, community-specific crime data directly for a target community, given the real, disclosed gap this pass's research found between Cheyenne's improving trend and Casper's above-national-average total crime rate.
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