West End, Billings, MT Property Crime Rates and Maps
West End is a neighborhood of 12,400 residents in Billings, about 5 miles west of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in West End?
West End earns a B for property crime, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 70% of Americans live. Theft makes up 62% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades B+, and vehicle theft grades A-. Billings as a whole grades B+ for property crime.
B
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 656 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
30% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than West End as a whole, and 70% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. West End scores 656.
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 West End, Billings, MT at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in West End 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 West End
Thefts and acts of vandalism both run high. In West End, each runs at more than double the US rate: 32.9 thefts and 12.4 acts of vandalism a year per 1,000 residents, against 13.1 and 5.5 nationally.
How West End compares within Billings
Most of West End grades well for property crime: 92% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Property crime grades across West End run from A to C+.
92%
A or B 92%C 8%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
West End has less property crime than 5 of the 8 neighborhoods in Billings. It covers much of the West End 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 West End
CrimeGrade™ estimates West End has about 53 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and 29% more 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 West End, about 62% 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 West End; 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 West End and nearby neighborhoods
West End has less property crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from West End. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, West End is safer than 60% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set West End apart: it has 4.5 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 27.0 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places with both tend to report more theft and car theft than places with only one of them, and they run high here.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.4.5 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 98% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for West End: F (0 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 95% 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. 68% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (23 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 67% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.27.0 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 94% 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 West End
Property crime costs West End about $4.4 million a year, or $354 per resident and about $779 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. West End 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.
