Anchorage, AK has a F safety grade (6/100) with a violent crime rate of 1015 per 100,000, 188% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
At 286,958 residents, Anchorage is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against AK and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Anchorage, AK carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 188% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Anchorage, AK shows violent crime at 1,014.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,765.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 188% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Share of the state cohort
The 10,849 Part I offenses reported here are 74.6% of the 14,541 reported across all 25 comparable Alaska cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 286,958 rather than as a uniform shift.
Position in the state cohort
At 1014.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Anchorage ranks 2 of 25 — above 23 of the 24 other Alaska cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +289.7% against the cohort median of 260.4. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Anchorage's 1014.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Nome (828.5), Bristol Bay Borough (817.8), Fairbanks (697.7), North Slope Borough (596.4). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1212.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1014.8 in 2024 (-16.3%). The highest observed value was 1212.3 in 2020 and the lowest 1014.8 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 26.8% of the 10,849 Part I offenses reported in Anchorage for 2024, against a median of 23.4% across comparable Alaska cities — a gap of 3.5 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property counts dominate Anchorage's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 1,707.1 Census sq mi, Anchorage logged 4.6 property and 1.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Anchorage leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,426.
Violent offenses are 27% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Anchorage offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1,707.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 7,937 | 2765.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 5,813 | 2025.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1,214 | 423.1 |
| Burglary | 910 | 317.1 |
| Arson | 87 | 30.3 |
| Violent Crime | 2,912 | 1014.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1,944 | 677.5 |
| Robbery | 479 | 166.9 |
| Rape | 462 | 161 |
| Murder | 27 | 9.4 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 286,388 | 1212.3 | 3472.6 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 286,238 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 285,821 | 1151.4 | 2811.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 285,026 | 1060.3 | 2921.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 286,958 | 1014.8 | 2765.9 |
Anchorage Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Anchorage's 10,849 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Alaska cities closest to Anchorage in population. Their populations run from 6,533 to 31,676, against 286,958 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Anchorage sits at 1,014.8/100K violent (grade F); the Alaska cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Anchorage at 1,014.8/100K violent and 2,765.9/100K property - matched below outside Alaska (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,014.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,765.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-4.3% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Anchorage reported 2,912 violent crimes and 7,937 property crimes, for a total of 10,849 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Anchorage's violent crime rate decreased by 4.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 5.3%.
The most common crime type in Anchorage is larceny-theft, accounting for 53.6% of all reported crimes (5,813 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Anchorage's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (very large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Anchorage's very large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Anchorage, AK rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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