Crime in Ketchikan, Alaska
Major crime in Ketchikan is 11% below the U.S. rate per resident: 6% higher for persons crimes and 15% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.8% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 45% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Ketchikan 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 Ketchikan
The middle half of Ketchikan residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 63 and 109; the typical (median) resident's is 102.
- 0–5015.4%
- 50–10033.8%
- 100–20050.8%
- 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 on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 6.8% 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.
Ketchikan against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
676 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Ketchikan; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Ketchikan has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Petersburg (115 mi), is 30% below Ketchikan's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Ketchikan
What are the most common crimes in Ketchikan?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 37 a year), other larceny (about 30 a year) and aggravated assault (about 21 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 45% above 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. Ketchikan's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Ketchikan has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 23.1% 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: 7,950. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Ketchikan, Alaska." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ak/ketchikan
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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