Nome, AK has a F safety grade (24/100) with a violent crime rate of 829 per 100,000, 135% above the national average.
Nome is a small municipal reporter (3,621 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with AK and U.S. context.
Nome, AK carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 135% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Nome, AK shows violent crime at 828.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 718 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 135% 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.
The verdict
Nome earns an F safety grade: violent crime runs 135% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 53.6% of the 56 Part I offenses reported in Nome for 2024, against a median of 23.4% across comparable Alaska cities — a gap of 30.2 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 4205.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 828.5 in 2024 (-80.3%). The highest observed value was 4205.1 in 2020 and the lowest 828.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 828.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Nome ranks 3 of 25 — above 22 of the 24 other Alaska cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +218.2% 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 Nome's 828.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bristol Bay Borough (817.8), 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 53.8% of reported property offenses in Nome, against a cohort median of 80.7%. The remainder is burglary (5) and motor vehicle theft (7). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Nome's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. 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.
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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 30 | 828.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 17 | 469.5 |
| Rape | 12 | 331.4 |
| Robbery | 1 | 27.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 26 | 718 |
| Larceny-Theft | 14 | 386.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 193.3 |
| Burglary | 5 | 138.1 |
| Arson | 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 | 3,900 | 4205.1 | 1846.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 3,871 | 1550 | 1240 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 3,546 | 2030.5 | 535.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 3,634 | 1513.5 | 798 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,621 | 828.5 | 718 |
Nome's crime figures on this page originate from Nome 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 Nome in population. Their populations run from 2,088 to 4,654, against 3,621 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Alaska cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Nome's 828.5/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Small-city read: Nome 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 Nome's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Nome, 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. Nome is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (3,621 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.