Bristol Bay Borough, AK has a D safety grade (25/100) with a violent crime rate of 818 per 100,000, 132% above the national average.
Bristol Bay Borough's UCR row covers a small municipal population (856). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to AK and U.S. averages.
Bristol Bay Borough, AK carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 132% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bristol Bay Borough, AK shows violent crime at 817.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 584.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 132% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
The verdict
Bristol Bay Borough earns a D safety grade: violent crime runs 132% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
Based on 7 reported violent incidents in a population of 856. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 58.3% of the 12 Part I offenses reported in Bristol Bay Borough for 2024, against a median of 23.4% across comparable Alaska cities — a gap of 35.0 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.
Small-count caution
Bristol Bay Borough reported 7 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 856. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 20.0% of reported property offenses in Bristol Bay Borough, against a cohort median of 80.7%. The remainder is burglary (2) and motor vehicle theft (2). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 489.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 817.8 in 2024 (+67.0%). The highest observed value was 1040.3 in 2021 and the lowest 453.0 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 817.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bristol Bay Borough ranks 4 of 25 — above 21 of the 24 other Alaska cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +214.1% 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 Bristol Bay Borough's 817.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Nome (828.5), Fairbanks (697.7), Anchorage (1014.8), 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.
Violent counts are the sharper signal on Bristol Bay Borough's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 7 reported violent incidents in a population of 856. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 7 | 817.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 7 | 817.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 5 | 584.1 |
| Burglary | 2 | 233.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 233.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1 | 116.8 |
| Arson | 1 | 116.8 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 817 | 489.6 | 1101.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 769 | 1040.3 | 2340.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 846 | 591 | 1063.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 883 | 453 | 453 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 856 | 817.8 | 584.1 |
Bristol Bay Borough's crime figures on this page originate from Bristol Bay Borough Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Alaska cities closest to Bristol Bay Borough in population. Their populations run from 1,042 to 3,465, against 856 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Alaska cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Bristol Bay Borough's 817.8/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Micro-municipal read: Bristol Bay Borough's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Bristol Bay Borough's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bristol Bay Borough, AK rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Bristol Bay Borough is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (856 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.