Crime in Big Lake, Alaska
Major crime in Big Lake is 9% below the U.S. rate per resident: 2.4 times for persons crimes and 42% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 1.9% 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 3.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Big Lake 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 Big Lake
The middle half of Big Lake residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 76 and 119; the typical (median) resident's is 88.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10071.4%
- 100–20028.6%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 1.9% 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.
Big Lake against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
464 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Big Lake; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Big Lake has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Meadow Lakes (10 mi), is 28% below Big Lake's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Big Lake
What are the most common crimes in Big Lake?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 25 a year), other larceny (about 11 a year) and burglary (about 11 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 3.6 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. Big Lake's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Big Lake has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 100.0% 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: 4,078. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Big Lake, Alaska." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ak/big-lake
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Meadow Lakes10 mi66
- Knik-Fairview10 mi32
- Wasilla14 mi209
- Tanaina16 mi36
- North Lakes19 mi39
- South Lakes19 mi58
- Anchorage24 mi277
- Palmer25 mi66