Alaska's comparable FBI window (2014–2024, 10 years) splits: one major offense rate rose while the other fell — the lead series is the larger |endpoint %| move.
Split-window verdict
Alaska's violent crime rate rose 15.3% from 2014 to 2024; its property crime rate fell 37.0%. A single combined label would hide that split, so the evidence below keeps the two series separate.
Latest national comparison
For 2024, the state rate was 728.4 per 100,000 versus 352.0 across the state records in this dataset, a gap of 106.9% above. This is a state-level benchmark, not a neighborhood-safety conclusion.
Full-window endpoints
Violent crime moved from 632.0 to 728.4 per 100,000 (+15.3%). Property crime moved from 2763.7 to 1740.8 (-37.0%). These are endpoint comparisons, not proof that every intervening year followed the same direction.
Recent direction check
From 2020 to 2024, the violent-crime rate fell 12.7%, compared with +15.3% across the full 2014-2024 window. That difference is why the latest few observations should be read separately from the decade-scale endpoints.
Peak and trough
The highest observed violent-crime rate was 885.2 in 2018; the lowest was 632.0 in 2014. The latest value lies 38% of the way from that low to that peak, which shows whether the endpoint is close to an extreme or near the middle of the observed range.
Year-to-year movement
The largest annual change ran from 2014 to 2015: +15.0%. Across the full sequence, 4 year-to-year steps rose by more than 1% and 4 fell by more than 1%. A single sharp step can reflect participation or reporting changes as well as a real change in recorded offenses.
Alaska's property rate fell 22.9% (-671.8 per 100K) from 2019 to 2020 (2935.3 → 2263.5) — the sharpest comparable year-to-year step in this window. The largest move the other way was jumped 18.7% from 2015 to 2016 (2828.4 → 3357.9).
Alaska's property gap vs the US aggregate moved from 9.6% above in 2014 to 1.7% above in 2024 (-7.9 pp).
| Year | Coverage | Population | Property | Rate | YoY | Violent | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Comparable | 740,133 | 12,884 | 1740.8 | ↓ 8.7% | 5,391 | 728.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 733,406 | 13,983 | 1906.6 | ↑ 3.8% | 5,391 | 735.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 733,583 | 13,470 | 1836.2 | - | 5,682 | 774.6 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 732,673 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2020 | Comparable | 731,158 | 16,550 | 2263.5 | ↓ 22.9% | 6,103 | 834.7 |
| 2019 | Comparable | 731,545 | 21,473 | 2935.3 | ↓ 11.4% | 6,343 | 867.1 |
| 2018 | Comparable | 737,438 | 24,421 | 3311.6 | ↓ 6.6% | 6,528 | 885.2 |
| 2017 | Comparable | 739,795 | 26,225 | 3544.9 | ↑ 5.6% | 6,320 | 854.3 |
| 2016 | Comparable | 741,894 | 24,912 | 3357.9 | ↑ 18.7% | 5,941 | 800.8 |
| 2015 | Comparable | 738,432 | 20,886 | 2828.4 | ↑ 2.3% | 5,365 | 726.5 |
| 2014 | Comparable | 736,732 | 20,361 | 2763.7 | - | 4,656 | 632 |
More in Alaska: overview, safest cities, most dangerous, compare. Methodology — FBI UCR / Crime Data Explorer rates per 100,000 for Alaska (2014–2024); Census population where FBI denominators are missing.