Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY-SA 4.0Fairbanks sees more crime per resident than 95% of U.S. towns
The Safety Grade comes out at D, drawn from crimes Fairbanks’ police reported through 2023 to 2025: #16 of 18 graded towns in Alaska. Behind the grade sit 7.1 violent crimes and 34.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 8.5 and 25.2 in the rest of Alaska.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of AK” is every other Alaska city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What’s behind Fairbanks’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Fairbanks | Rest of Alaska | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 8.3 | 9.5 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 5.9 | 8.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 7.0 | 8.3 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 8.4 | 8.3 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Fairbanks’ police reported 677 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 7.1 per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.5 in the rest of Alaska and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Fairbanks per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 8 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Fairbanks property | Rest of Alaska property | Fairbanks violent | Rest of Alaska violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 42.9 | 23.3 | 8.3 | 9.5 |
| 2023 | 40.0 | 25.5 | 5.9 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 34.6 | 23.4 | 7.0 | 8.3 |
| 2025 | 29.9 | 26.8 | 8.4 | 8.3 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Alaska.
1,211 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
266 violent and 945 property, as reported to the FBI by Fairbanks’ police.
Seven people died in crashes on Fairbanks’s roads in 2019–2023
Fairbanks had 7 fatal crashes in five years, in which seven people died; 3 were pedestrians. 1 died in crash on an Interstate.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Fairbanks and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairbanks | D | 7.1 | 34.9 |
| College | — | — | — |
| Badger | — | — | — |
| Steele Creek | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. College, Badger and Steele Creek are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own.
Alaska towns of a similar size
The five graded Alaska towns closest to Fairbanks’ population (31,468), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Fairbanks. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Fairbanks’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (31,565 in 2025); our figure for Fairbanks is 31,468 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Fairbanks
Is Fairbanks, AK safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Fairbanks reports more crime per resident than 95% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #16 of 18 in Alaska. Its police reported 7.1 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 8.5 in the rest of Alaska and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Fairbanks?
7.1 violent and 34.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Alaska reports 8.5 and 25.2; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Fairbanks in 2025?
Fairbanks’s police reported 4 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 12.7 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Fairbanks?
Fairbanks’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Fairbanks”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.