With a crime rate of 40 per one thousand residents, Anchorage has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 25. Within Alaska, more than 94% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Anchorage. In fact, after researching dangerous places to live, 蘑菇视频 found Anchorage to be one of the <a href="/blog/top100dangerous">top 100 most dangerous cities in the U.S.A.</a> Importantly, when you compare Anchorage to other communities of similar population, then Anchorage crime rate (violent and property crimes combined) is quite a bit higher than average. Regardless of how Anchorage does relative to all communities in America of all sizes, when 蘑菇视频 compared it to communities of similar population size, its crime rate per thousand residents stands out as higher than most. The crime data that 蘑菇视频 used for this analysis are the seven offenses from the uniform crime reports, collected by the FBI from 18,000 local law enforcement agencies, and include both violent and property crimes, combined. Now let us turn to take a look at how Anchorage does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Anchorage. For Anchorage, we found that the violent crime rate is one of the highest in the nation, across communities of all sizes (both large and small). Violent offenses tracked included rape, murder and non-negligent manslaughter, armed robbery, and aggravated assault, including assault with a deadly weapon. According to 蘑菇视频's analysis of FBI reported crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of one of these crimes in Anchorage is one in 94. In addition, 蘑菇视频 found that a lot of the crime that takes place in Anchorage is property crime. Property crimes that are tracked for this analysis are burglary, larceny over fifty dollars, motor vehicle theft, and arson. In Anchorage, your chance of becoming a victim of a property crime is one in 34, which is a rate of 29 per one thousand population. Importantly, we found that Anchorage has one of the highest rates of motor vehicle theft in the nation according to our analysis of FBI crime data. This is compared to communities of all sizes, from the smallest to the largest. In fact, your chance of getting your car stolen if you live in Anchorage is one in 231.