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Safety in Port Alexander · Not graded

Safety in Port Alexander: figures, but no grade

The closest graded town is Sitka, 71 miles away, at B. No FBI crime figures of its own exist for Port Alexander for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade.

Nearest with figures

The nearest Alaska towns with a Safety Grade

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
SitkaB71 mi2.26.6
PetersburgB77 mi1.87.7
CraigB79 mi2.92.6
WrangellA101 mi1.30.3
KetchikanC−131 mi3.420.7
JuneauD149 mi5.222.6

Straight-line distance from the center of Port Alexander. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Port Alexander.

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

On the roads

No one died in a crash on Port Alexander’s roads in 2019–2023

That is about what is typical for Alaska towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (4.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Port Alexander’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Port Alexander’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.

0
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
0.0
per 100,000 a year · Alaska towns of 2,500–5,000: 4.5

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.

Next door

Port Alexander and its neighbors

Sitka: Safety Grade BSitkaPort Alexander
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
SitkaB2.26.6

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

How to read these numbers

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.
  • A county agency covers a wide area. Its totals mix many communities, so they say little about any one of them.
  • 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 Port Alexander

Is Port Alexander, AK safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Port Alexander. Port Alexander has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on. The nearest Alaska towns with a grade are Sitka (B, 71 mi), Petersburg (B, 77 mi), Craig (B, 79 mi).

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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 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.