Safest counties for violent crime rate in Alaska

Top 25 of 30 counties with data.

Ranked by violent crime rate (FBI Crime Data Explorer (per-agency, 2018-2022 average), FBI CDE 2020-2024 avg), lowest first.

Safest counties for violent crime rate in Alaska
Rank	County	Value
1	Prince of Wales-Hyder	85.8 per 100k
2	Skagway	127.0 per 100k
3	Haines	141.2 per 100k
4	Wrangell	170.9 per 100k
5	Petersburg	179.9 per 100k
6	Sitka	181.7 per 100k
7	Aleutians West	198.2 per 100k
8	Kenai Peninsula	343.9 per 100k
9	Dillingham	351.1 per 100k
10	Ketchikan Gateway	367.7 per 100k
11	Matanuska-Susitna	440.0 per 100k
12	Kodiak Island	489.9 per 100k
13	Juneau	513.3 per 100k
14	Bristol Bay	671.3 per 100k
15	Fairbanks North Star	751.3 per 100k
16	Southeast Fairbanks	793.1 per 100k
17	Yukon-Koyukuk	793.1 per 100k
18	Lake and Peninsula	793.1 per 100k
19	Copper River	793.1 per 100k
20	Kusilvak	793.1 per 100k
21	Yakutat	793.1 per 100k
22	Denali	793.1 per 100k
23	Hoonah-Angoon	793.1 per 100k
24	Aleutians East	793.1 per 100k
25	Chugach	793.1 per 100k

How this ranking works

This page ranks Alaska counties by violent crime rate, sorted so the safest places appear first. Click any county to see its housing, schools, crime, and demographics in detail.

For violent crime rate, a lower value is generally more favorable, so the top of the list is the lowest. Want to weigh violent crime rate against schools, taxes, commute, and more at once? Use the live map to build a custom match.

Data comes from public sources. Source attribution and the exact data vintage are shown above and on the full map of violent crime rate.

Safest Counties (Lowest Violent Crime) in Alaska (2026)

Safest counties for violent crime rate in Alaska

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