Crime in Anchorage, Alaska
Major crime in Anchorage is 2.8 times the U.S. rate per resident: 3.2 times for persons crimes and 2.7 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 8.0% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 4.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Anchorage for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Anchorage
The middle half of Anchorage residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 95 and 291; the typical (median) resident's is 155. The citywide figure (277) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10028.3%
- 100–20026.7%
- 200–40029.0%
- 400+16.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 8.0% in a year; across Alaska it rose 4.5%
Change in expected crimes, with Alaska as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Anchorage against U.S. places with 250,000 to 500,000 residents
4 of the 53 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Anchorage; the middle of the group is 142. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Anchorage has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Big Lake (24 mi), is 67% below Anchorage's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Anchorage
What are the most common crimes in Anchorage?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 4,091 a year), shoplifting (about 2,328 a year) and aggravated assault (about 1,957 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 4.2 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Anchorage's figures add up its 200 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Anchorage has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 93.6% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 288,464. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Anchorage, Alaska." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ak/anchorage
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Big Lake24 mi91
- Knik-Fairview25 mi32
- Meadow Lakes29 mi66
- Wasilla29 mi209
- South Lakes31 mi58
- Tanaina33 mi36
- North Lakes33 mi39
- Palmer35 mi66