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Safest cities in Alaska? Lowest and highest property-crime candidates

Use this hub to compare validated Alaska city candidates by reported selected property-offense rate. It is a cautious city-page index, not a statewide safety ranking or personal-risk score.

Candidate-city rate 21.84 per 1,000 residents across listed cities; not a statewide risk score

Validated cities10Current candidate pages

Candidate population122,143Sum of listed city estimates

Selected offenses2,667FBI NIBRS offense records

Highest-rate city candidates

Use the city pages for source notes, trend handling, and offense mix. Small or ambiguous places remain outside automatic publication.

31,658 residents Fairbanks 35.06 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 10,302 residents Wasilla 24.75 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 6,357 residents Bethel 22.65 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 31,586 residents Juneau 21.28 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 7,999 residents Ketchikan 20.50 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 6,154 residents Homer 12.84 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents

Lowest-rate city candidates

Searchers often ask for the safest cities in a state. This section answers that intent carefully by showing the lowest reported selected property-offense rates among validated city candidates only.

8,384 residents Sitka 6.92 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 7,810 residents Kenai 8.96 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 6,603 residents Palmer 9.24 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 5,290 residents Kodiak 10.21 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 6,154 residents Homer 12.84 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 7,999 residents Ketchikan 20.50 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents

Home-security guides

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Alaska city candidates

City	Population	Selected offenses	Rate per 1,000	Trend
Fairbanks	31,658	1,110	35.06	Mixed
Wasilla	10,302	255	24.75	Decreasing
Bethel	6,357	144	22.65	Increasing
Juneau	31,586	672	21.28	Increasing
Ketchikan	7,999	164	20.50	Mixed
Homer	6,154	79	12.84	Roughly stable
Kodiak	5,290	54	10.21	Decreasing
Palmer	6,603	61	9.24	Decreasing
Kenai	7,810	70	8.96	Decreasing
Sitka	8,384	58	6.92	Increasing

Important context

These figures are based on reported selected property offenses and Census population context for validated city candidates. Agency reporting boundaries can differ from municipal boundaries, so the methodology page explains why ambiguous or tiny-denominator rows stay out of automatic publication.

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