Southwest Corridor is a neighborhood of 8,780 residents in Billings, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Southwest Corridor in Billings safe?
Crime in Southwest Corridor is high by national standards, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of C. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 85% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Southwest Corridor. Property crime grades better than violent crime here, B- against C-. Billings as a whole grades B+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Southwest Corridor run from A to F, so check the map below.
C
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 412 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
15% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Southwest Corridor as a whole, and 85% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Southwest Corridor scores 412.
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 crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime 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 Southwest Corridor, Billings, MT at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Southwest Corridor 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 in Southwest Corridor
Aggravated assaults run high for a C-graded neighborhood. Southwest Corridor has 9.5 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a C-graded US neighborhood, the figure is 4.1.
Burglaries run high. Southwest Corridor has burglaries at more than double the US rate: 5.8 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.4 nationally.
Crime rates and types in Southwest Corridor
CrimeGrade™ estimates Southwest Corridor has about 83 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and 42% more than Billings as a whole.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft is the most common crime in Southwest Corridor, about 32% of everything reported, but aggravated assault costs more, because each one does far more harm.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. 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 crime happens in Billings
The Billings Police Department polices Southwest Corridor; these figures cover Billings as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Billings as a whole, 59% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 32% of them, against 31% 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)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (45%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (51%)
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.
How Southwest Corridor compares with nearby neighborhoods
Southwest Corridor has more crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Southeast and Cameron Park have the least crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Southwest Corridor. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Southwest Corridor has more crime than 68% of them.
Parking lots, transit and walkability in Southwest Corridor
Two things set Southwest Corridor apart: it has 6.2 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 11% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places with a lot of parking-lot space tend to report more theft, and it runs high here.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.6.2 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 99% 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 and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Southwest Corridor: 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 and assault. 82% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (19 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 74% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.11% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 89% 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 crime costs Southwest Corridor
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Southwest Corridor about $2,654 a year per household, more than double the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $33 million a year, or $3,722 per resident.
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Southwest Corridor means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
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.
Schools in Southwest Corridor, Billings, MT average a SchoolGrade of D+: 32% of students test proficient, against 32% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Southwest Corridor on SchoolGrade
