North Pole, AK has a C safety grade (56/100) with a violent crime rate of 281 per 100,000, 20% below the national average.
North Pole's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,490). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to AK and U.S. averages.
North Pole, AK carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 20% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, North Pole, AK shows violent crime at 281.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,807.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 20% below 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.
The verdict
North Pole earns a C safety grade: violent crime runs 20% below the U.S. average, placing it higher-crime than most U.S. cities.
Based on 7 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,490. 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-count caution
North Pole reported 7 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,490. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 669.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 281.1 in 2024 (-58.0%). The highest observed value was 669.9 in 2020 and the lowest 281.1 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to North Pole's 281.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Craig (287.9), Kodiak (264.7), Seward (256.0), Cordova (230.3). 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 13.5% of the 52 Part I offenses reported in North Pole for 2024, against a median of 25.9% across comparable Alaska cities — a gap of 12.5 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 91.1% of reported property offenses in North Pole, against a cohort median of 77.9%. The remainder is burglary (0) and motor vehicle theft (4). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 281.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, North Pole ranks 12 of 25 — above 13 of the 24 other Alaska cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +8.0% 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.
Property counts dominate North Pole'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 7 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,490. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 45 | 1807.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 41 | 1646.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 160.6 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 7 | 281.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 6 | 241 |
| Robbery | 1 | 40.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 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 | 2,090 | 669.9 | 2727.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,106 | 664.8 | 2896.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,335 | 342.6 | 2141.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,439 | 451 | 2460 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,490 | 281.1 | 1807.2 |
North Pole's crime figures on this page originate from North Pole 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 North Pole in population. Their populations run from 1,061 to 3,859, against 2,490 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Alaska cities report the closest violent-crime rates to North Pole's 281.1/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Micro-municipal read: North Pole'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 North Pole's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 North Pole, 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. North Pole is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (2,490 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.