Ketchikan, AK has a C safety grade (46/100) with a violent crime rate of 360 per 100,000, 2% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Ketchikan is a small municipal reporter (8,050 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with AK and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Ketchikan, AK is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 2% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Ketchikan, AK shows violent crime at 360.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,037.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 2% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Ketchikan reported 29 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 8,050. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Ketchikan's 360.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Dillingham (335.2), Craig (287.9), North Pole (281.1), Wasilla (449.2). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 15.0% of the 193 Part I offenses reported in Ketchikan for 2024, against a median of 25.9% across comparable Alaska cities — a gap of 10.9 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 360.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Ketchikan ranks 9 of 25 — above 16 of the 24 other Alaska cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +38.4% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 95.7% of reported property offenses in Ketchikan, against a cohort median of 77.9%. The remainder is burglary (7) and motor vehicle theft (0). 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 445.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 360.2 in 2024 (-19.1%). The highest observed value was 445.4 in 2020 and the lowest 299.4 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Ketchikan'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.
Based on 29 reported violent incidents in a population of 8,050. 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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 3.8 Census sq mi, Ketchikan logged 42.8 property and 7.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Ketchikan's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (81% of 193 offenses; mix index 6,758).
Violent offenses are 15% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Ketchikan offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 164 | 2037.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 157 | 1950.3 |
| Burglary | 7 | 87 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 29 | 360.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 21 | 260.9 |
| Robbery | 5 | 62.1 |
| Rape | 3 | 37.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,307 | 445.4 | 3009.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,198 | 353.7 | 1451.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,953 | 339.5 | 1684.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,017 | 299.4 | 3018.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,050 | 360.2 | 2037.3 |
Ketchikan Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Ketchikan's 193 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Alaska cities closest to Ketchikan in population. Their populations run from 5,289 to 10,564, against 8,050 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Ketchikan sits at 360.2/100K violent (grade C); the Alaska cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Ketchikan reported 29 violent crimes and 164 property crimes, for a total of 193 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Ketchikan's violent crime rate increased by 20.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 32.5%.
The most common crime type in Ketchikan is larceny-theft, accounting for 81.3% of all reported crimes (157 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Ketchikan is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Ketchikan's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Ketchikan, AK rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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