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Safety, air quality and noise in Fairbanks

Area scores as of 2026-08-01. Scores are area-level medians; individual properties vary.

45/100

Safety — higher is safer

Fairbanks scores 45 out of 100 for safety, where higher is safer.

Measured figure: 59.8 violent offences per 10,000 residents.

Safety uses a median of 59.8 violent offences per 10,000 residents across this area's Census tracts, each tract carrying the FBI-reported rate of its nearest reporting agency (2 agencies in all), from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, latest published year, where each agency's rate is jurisdiction-wide, not a neighbourhood figure.

Median across the 19 member areas; middle half 45 to 61.

35/100

Quiet — higher is quieter

Fairbanks scores 35 out of 100 for quiet, where higher is quieter.

Measured figure: 65.9 decibels (modelled).

Quiet uses a median of 65.9 decibels of modelled outdoor sound across the 13 of 19 Tracts in this city with published figures, a day-evening-night level taken at 13 member-area centroids from SpotCheck's traffic, railway and aircraft noise models, where a lower reading means a quieter area.

Median across the 19 member areas; middle half 12 to 46.

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