Butte, SD County has a significantly lower crime rate than the national average. Violent crime in Butte is 12.3 per 1000 people compared to 22.7 for the US as a whole. Similarly, Butte's property crime rate of 17.9 is much lower than the US average of 35.4 per 1000 people. This shows that Butte is generally a safe place to live and work with crime levels substantially below the national average.
Crime is ranked on a scale of 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime)
Butte County violent crime is 12.3. (The US average is 22.7)
Butte County property crime is 17.9. (The US average is 35.4)
NOTE: The city of Butte, South Dakota does not have FBI Crime Statistics. The closest similar sized city with FBI crime data is the city of Spearfish, South Dakota. The charts below are detailed crime statistics for the city of Spearfish, South Dakota. Click links below to see charts for each crime category.