Heights, Billings, MT Property Crime Rates and Maps
Heights is a neighborhood of 20,000 residents in Billings, about 3 miles north of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Heights?
Property crime in Heights runs higher than in most US neighborhoods: a B+, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 65% of Americans live. Theft makes up 54% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A-, and vehicle theft grades A. Billings as a whole grades B+ for property crime.
B+
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 711 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
35% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Heights as a whole, and 65% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Heights scores 711.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more property crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its property crime with the homes, parked cars and people there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Heights, Billings, MT at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Heights in Billings, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about property crime in Heights
One weak spot: vandalism. It grades B- in Heights, worse than in the neighborhoods where 85% of Americans live, against B+ for property crime as a whole.
How Heights compares within Billings
Low property crime is the norm across Heights: 95% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Property crime grades across Heights run from A to C.
95%
A or B 95%C 5%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Heights has less property crime than 6 of the 8 neighborhoods in Billings. It covers much of the Heights area.
Is property crime going up in Billings?
Reported property crime in Billings as a whole has fallen 25% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 42 to 31 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 15%.
Property crime, change since 2019
BillingsUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Billings. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Billings
Property, US
2016
+14%
+15%
2017
+33%
+12%
2018
+17%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+9%
-8%
2021
+8%
-10%
2022
+2%
-6%
2023
-13%
-7%
2024
-25%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Heights
CrimeGrade™ estimates Heights has about 30 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 25% more than the US as a whole and 27% less than Billings as a whole.
All property crime
Burglary
Vehicle theft
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Property crime here includes vandalism, which the FBI's property crime rate leaves out.
Theft is the most common property crime in Heights, about 54% of the total, followed by vandalism and vehicle theft.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a property crime with what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for vehicle theft, people and parking for theft, homes and businesses for vandalism. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when property crime happens in Billings
The Billings Police Department polices Heights; these figures cover Billings as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Billings as a whole, 59% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often at homes: 30% of them, against 33% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (59%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Car theft
Homes (30%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (32%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (37%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
Property crime in Heights and nearby neighborhoods
Heights has less property crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Night lighting, parking lots and walkability in Heights
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Heights apart: it has 3.9 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and a Walk Grade of D- (9 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. Places with a lot of parking-lot space tend to report more theft, and it runs high here.
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.91% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 97% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.3.9 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 97% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft. 93% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D- (9 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 93% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Heights: F (0 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 95% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What property crime costs Heights
Property crime costs Heights about $4.2 million a year, or $210 per resident and about $570 per household: the value of what is stolen or damaged, plus the police, courts and prisons that respond.
Cost of property crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The property crime CrimeGrade™ covers burglary, theft, car theft, arson and vandalism, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each property crime against what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for car theft, and the people and parking around stores for theft.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Heights is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
