Fairbanks, AK carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 98% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fairbanks, AK shows violent crime at 697.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,463.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 98% 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.
F safety grade
697.7/100K violent
3463.2/100K property
+98% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Fairbanks, AK
Comparable rate records
Fairbanks's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Alaska cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Fairbanks's 697.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are North Slope Borough (596.4), Bristol Bay Borough (817.8), Nome (828.5), Juneau (537.8). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Fairbanks reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Alaska cities
At 697.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fairbanks ranks 5 of 25 — above 20 of the 24 other Alaska cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +168.0% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 16.8% of the 1,318 Part I offenses reported in Fairbanks for 2024, against a median of 25.9% across comparable Alaska cities — a gap of 9.2 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 843.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 697.7 in 2024 (-17.3%). The highest observed value was 853.0 in 2021 and the lowest 597.6 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Fairbanks'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Fairbanks's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 31.8 Census sq mi, Fairbanks logged 34.5 property and 6.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Fairbanks's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 1,318 offenses; mix index 4,923).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (31.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+16.8%
597.6 → 697.7/100K
Property Crime Rate
-14.3%
4039.3 → 3463.2/100K
Property offenses lead Fairbanks's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs AK
Property Crime
1,097
3463.2
1711
1740.8
Larceny-Theft
902
2847.6
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
101
318.9
-
-
Burglary
94
296.8
-
-
Arson
8
25.3
-
-
Violent Crime
221
697.7
352
728.4
Aggravated Assault
139
438.8
-
-
Robbery
42
132.6
-
-
Rape
38
120
-
-
Murder
2
6.3
-
-
Fairbanks Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Fairbanks property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Fairbanks Police Department
Reporting agency for Fairbanks NIBRS-participating
Fairbanks Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Fairbanks's 1,318 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
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.
Similar-Size Cities in Alaska
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Alaska cities closest to Fairbanks in population. Their populations run from 6,280 to 31,612, against 31,676 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Fairbanks reported 221 violent crimes and 1,097 property crimes, for a total of 1,318 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Fairbanks?
From 2023 to 2024, Fairbanks's violent crime rate increased by 16.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 14.3%.
What is the most common crime in Fairbanks?
The most common crime type in Fairbanks is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.4% of all reported crimes (902 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Fairbanks figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Fairbanks, AK rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.