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Safest cities in Wyoming? Lowest and highest property-crime candidates

Use this hub to compare validated Wyoming city candidates by reported selected property-offense rate. It is a cautious city-page index, not a statewide safety ranking or personal-risk score.

Candidate-city rate 18.42 per 1,000 residents across listed cities; not a statewide risk score

Validated cities15Current candidate pages

Candidate population315,964Sum of listed city estimates

Selected offenses5,819FBI NIBRS offense records

Highest-rate city candidates

Use the city pages for source notes, trend handling, and offense mix. Small or ambiguous places remain outside automatic publication.

10,959 residents Riverton 40.51 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 65,773 residents Cheyenne 30.19 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 58,729 residents Casper 21.68 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 11,704 residents Evanston 16.49 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 33,975 residents Gillette 15.19 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 7,813 residents Rawlins 13.95 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents

Lowest-rate city candidates

Searchers often ask for the safest cities in a state. This section answers that intent carefully by showing the lowest reported selected property-offense rates among validated city candidates only.

10,736 residents Jackson 5.96 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 11,496 residents Green River 6.26 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 10,383 residents Cody 7.80 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 6,450 residents Douglas 9.15 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 19,794 residents Sheridan 10.41 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 6,209 residents Torrington 10.47 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents

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Wyoming city candidates

City	Population	Selected offenses	Rate per 1,000	Trend
Riverton	10,959	444	40.51	Increasing
Cheyenne	65,773	1,986	30.19	Decreasing
Casper	58,729	1,273	21.68	Decreasing
Evanston	11,704	193	16.49	Decreasing
Gillette	33,975	516	15.19	Roughly stable
Rawlins	7,813	109	13.95	Trend pending
Rock Springs	23,015	296	12.86	Roughly stable
Laramie	32,332	379	11.72	Decreasing
Powell	6,596	76	11.52	Decreasing
Torrington	6,209	65	10.47	Roughly stable
Sheridan	19,794	206	10.41	Decreasing
Douglas	6,450	59	9.15	Roughly stable
Cody	10,383	81	7.80	Decreasing
Green River	11,496	72	6.26	Decreasing
Jackson	10,736	64	5.96	Increasing

Important context

These figures are based on reported selected property offenses and Census population context for validated city candidates. Agency reporting boundaries can differ from municipal boundaries, so the methodology page explains why ambiguous or tiny-denominator rows stay out of automatic publication.

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