North Slope Borough, AK has a D safety grade (36/100) with a violent crime rate of 596 per 100,000, 69% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
North Slope Borough (10,564 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then AK and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
North Slope Borough, AK carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 69% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, North Slope Borough, AK shows violent crime at 596.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 511.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 69% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 53.8% of the 117 Part I offenses reported in North Slope Borough for 2024, against a median of 23.4% across comparable Alaska cities — a gap of 30.5 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1281.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 596.4 in 2024 (-53.4%). The highest observed value was 1281.0 in 2020 and the lowest 596.4 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 Slope Borough's 596.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Juneau (537.8), Fairbanks (697.7), Wasilla (449.2), Bristol Bay Borough (817.8). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 42.6% of reported property offenses in North Slope Borough, against a cohort median of 80.7%. The remainder is burglary (14) and motor vehicle theft (17). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 596.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, North Slope Borough ranks 6 of 25 — above 19 of the 24 other Alaska cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +129.0% 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.
North Slope Borough'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
North Slope Borough leans on aggravated assault at 44% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,709.
Violent offenses are 54% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a mid-size city.
North Slope Borough offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 63 | 596.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 51 | 482.8 |
| Rape | 9 | 85.2 |
| Murder | 3 | 28.4 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 54 | 511.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 23 | 217.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 17 | 160.9 |
| Burglary | 14 | 132.5 |
| Arson | 2 | 18.9 |
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 | 9,836 | 1281 | 549 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 9,310 | 988.2 | 644.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,959 | 739.1 | 602.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 10,698 | 645 | 738.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 10,564 | 596.4 | 511.2 |
North Slope Borough Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind North Slope Borough's 117 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 North Slope Borough in population. Their populations run from 5,289 to 10,240, against 10,564 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
North Slope Borough sits at 596.4/100K violent (grade D); the Alaska cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
North Slope Borough at 596.4/100K violent and 511.2/100K property - matched below outside Alaska (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
596.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
511.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, North Slope Borough reported 63 violent crimes and 54 property crimes, for a total of 117 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, North Slope Borough's violent crime rate decreased by 7.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 30.8%.
The most common crime type in North Slope Borough is aggravated assault, accounting for 43.6% of all reported crimes (51 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: North Slope Borough 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how North Slope Borough's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 North Slope Borough, AK rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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