Anchorage, AK crime rate
In 2025 the Anchorage Police Department reported 1,026.8 violent crimes and 3,334.6 property crimes per 100,000 residents it covers. The FBI's estimates for Alaska and the US for the same year are beside each number.
Data as of 2025 (FBI), checked October 30, 2026. How we got these numbers
Data notes.
- Murder, 2025: possibly incomplete. 24 reported; 3 of 12 months zero (Jan, Mar, Dec) while other offenses were reported in those months; 2024: 28 reported. The count is shown; its rate is not compared.
- Murder, 2023: possibly incomplete. 19 reported; 3 of 12 months zero (Apr, Sep, Dec) while other offenses were reported in those months; 2022: 29 reported. The count is shown; its rate is not compared.
How does Anchorage compare with Alaska and the US?
Arson has no FBI state or US estimate, so its row shows Anchorage only.
What offenses were reported in Anchorage, 2025?
| Offense | Reported | Per 100k | Alaska | US | vs 2024 | vs 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | ||||||
| Violent crime | 2,951 | 1,026.8 | 729.3 | 327.6 | up 1.0% | 2021: not reported |
| Murder | 24 | 6.1 | 4.1 | See data note | See data note | |
| Rape | 418 | 145.4 | 118.8 | 36.1 | down 9.7% | 2021: not reported |
| Robbery | 517 | 179.9 | 83.8 | 49.4 | up 7.8% | 2021: not reported |
| Aggravated assault | 1,992 | 693.1 | 520.6 | 238.0 | up 2.1% | 2021: not reported |
| Property crime | ||||||
| Property crime | 9,583 | 3,334.6 | 1,892.8 | 1,534.8 | up 19.3% | 2021: not reported |
| Burglary | 1,062 | 369.5 | 251.5 | 193.6 | up 16.5% | 2021: not reported |
| Larceny-theft | 6,990 | 2,432.3 | 1,362.5 | 1,144.1 | up 20.1% | 2021: not reported |
| Motor vehicle theft | 1,452 | 505.2 | 278.9 | 197.0 | up 19.4% | 2021: not reported |
| Arson | 79 | 27.5 | Not estimated | Not estimated | down 9.2% | 2021: not reported |
Reported = offenses known to the Anchorage Police Department and sent to the FBI. Alaska and US are FBI estimates for the same year. Changes compare rates of full years only.
Violent crime rate, 2021 to 2025
2021: not reported. No rate is drawn for that year, and the line breaks there.
Show as a table
| Year | Anchorage | United States | Alaska |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Not reported | 387.0 | 759.1 |
| 2022 | 1,151.4 | 388.7 | 767.1 |
| 2023 | 1,060.3 | 379.5 | 733.6 |
| 2024 | 1,016.5 | 362.9 | 729.1 |
| 2025 | 1,026.8 | 327.6 | 729.3 |
Property crime rate, 2021 to 2025
2021: not reported. No rate is drawn for that year, and the line breaks there.
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| Year | Anchorage | United States | Alaska |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Not reported | 1,832.3 | 1,832.8 |
| 2022 | 2,811.5 | 1,973.8 | 1,814.5 |
| 2023 | 2,921.8 | 1,934.1 | 1,881.6 |
| 2024 | 2,796.2 | 1,761.1 | 1,721.2 |
| 2025 | 3,334.6 | 1,534.8 | 1,892.8 |
Is Anchorage safe?
We don't rate cities as safe or unsafe. What the FBI's numbers show: in 2025 the violent crime rate the Anchorage Police Department reported, 1,026.8 per 100,000 residents, was higher than Alaska's 729.3, and higher than the US rate of 327.6 (FBI estimates). It rose 1.0% from 2024.
What these numbers can't tell you:
- How crime differs between neighborhoods (the FBI publishes agency totals only).
- Crimes nobody reported to the police.
- How many offenses involved visitors and commuters, who are not in the population count.
At 1,026.8 per 100,000 residents covered by the Anchorage Police Department, the city's 2025 violent crime rate was 1.4 times the Alaska estimate of 729.3 and 3.1 times the US rate of 327.6. That rate rests on 2,951 offenses reported to the FBI. Property crime came to 3,334.6 per 100,000, against 1,892.8 for Alaska and 1,534.8 for the US.
Violent crime fell 10.8% between 2022 and 2025. From 2024 to 2025 violent crime was up 1.0%. Property crime rose 18.6% from 2022 and 19.3% from 2024, while the Alaska property estimate went from 1,814.5 to 1,892.8.
Motor vehicle theft had the largest rise of the property offenses since 2022, 29.4%, reaching 505.2 per 100,000. Larceny-theft, 73% of property crime, rose 24.0% over the same years. Robbery is up 18.0% since 2022, while rape fell 15.5% and aggravated assault 15.1%.
The rape rate of 145.4 per 100,000 was 4.0 times the US rate, and aggravated assault made up 68% of violent crime. The murder counts for 2023 and 2025 are flagged as possibly incomplete, because several months in each year were sent as zero, so neither is used here. No data was sent for 2021; the other 4 of the 5 years shown have all 12 months.
The department does not report to NIBRS, and it had 1.87 police employees per 1,000 residents in 2025.
Written from the numbers on this page. Every figure and every comparison is checked against the stored FBI data before publishing.
Police employees, 2025: 1.87 per 1,000 residents (369 officers, 169 civilians), FBI Crime Data Explorer. Shown as context, not as a measure of crime.
Sources
- FBI Crime Data Explorer, Anchorage Police Department (ORI AK0010100), offenses known to law enforcement and police employees, 2021 to 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026. Crime Data Explorer
- FBI Crime Data Explorer, Alaska and United States estimated crime (Summary Reporting System estimates), 2021 to 2025.
- FBI, "UCR Statistics: Their Proper Use" (why we don't rank cities).
Every stored file behind this page (11)
- Anchorage Police Department (AK0010100): violent crime, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AK0010100_violent_crime__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Anchorage Police Department (AK0010100): murder, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AK0010100_homicide__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Anchorage Police Department (AK0010100): rape, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AK0010100_rape__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Anchorage Police Department (AK0010100): robbery, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AK0010100_robbery__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Anchorage Police Department (AK0010100): aggravated assault, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AK0010100_aggravated_assault__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Anchorage Police Department (AK0010100): property crime, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AK0010100_property_crime__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Anchorage Police Department (AK0010100): burglary, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AK0010100_burglary__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Anchorage Police Department (AK0010100): larceny-theft, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AK0010100_larceny__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Anchorage Police Department (AK0010100): motor vehicle theft, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AK0010100_motor_vehicle_theft__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Anchorage Police Department (AK0010100): arson, offenses known to law enforcement, January 2021 to December 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/summarized_agency_AK0010100_arson__from-01-2021-to-12-2025.json)
- Anchorage Police Department (AK0010100): police employees, 2021 to 2025, fetched Oct 29, 2026 (var/raw/cde/pe_agency_AK0010100__from-2021-to-2025.json)