Spenard, Anchorage, AK Property Crime Rates and Maps
Spenard is a neighborhood of 11,300 residents in Anchorage, about 2 miles south of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Spenard?
Property crime is high in Spenard: a C+, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 79% of Americans live. Theft makes up 66% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades C+, and vehicle theft grades C+. Anchorage as a whole grades B for property crime.
C+
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 498 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
21% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Spenard as a whole, and 79% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Spenard scores 498.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more property crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its property crime with the homes, parked cars and people there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Spenard, Anchorage, AK at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Spenard in Anchorage, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about property crime in Spenard
Car thefts run high. Spenard has car thefts at about triple the US rate: 8.4 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How Spenard compares within Anchorage
Areas graded C for property crime are home to 50% of residents in Spenard; 24% live in areas graded A or B and 26% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Spenard run from B+ to D.
24%50%26%
A or B 24%C 50%D or F 26%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Spenard has less property crime than 6 of the 22 neighborhoods in Anchorage. It covers much of the Spenard and Turnagain areas.
Is property crime going up in Anchorage?
Reported property crime in Anchorage as a whole has fallen 35% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 42 to 27 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
AnchorageUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Anchorage. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Anchorage
Property, US
2016
+16%
+15%
2017
+28%
+12%
2018
+16%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-20%
-8%
2021
-28%
-10%
2022
-35%
-6%
2023
-32%
-7%
2024
-35%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Spenard
CrimeGrade™ estimates Spenard has about 52 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about double the rate for the US as a whole and 62% more than Anchorage as a whole.
All property crime
Burglary
Vehicle theft
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Property crime here includes vandalism, which the FBI's property crime rate leaves out.
Theft is the most common property crime in Spenard, about 66% of the total, followed by vehicle theft and burglary.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a property crime with what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for vehicle theft, people and parking for theft, homes and businesses for vandalism. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Property crime in Spenard and nearby neighborhoods
Spenard has more property crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Turnagain and Sand Lake have the least property crime nearby.
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, two set Spenard apart: it has 17.1% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 22.0 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. It also combines many stores and restaurants with a lot of parking-lot space: places with both tend to report more theft and car theft than places with only one of them, and they run high here.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.17.1% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 96% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.22.0 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 90% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft.B- (51 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 65% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.2.2 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 88% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What property crime costs Spenard
Property crime costs Spenard about $4.4 million a year, or $392 per resident and about $868 per household: the value of what is stolen or damaged, plus the police, courts and prisons that respond.
Cost of property crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The property crime CrimeGrade™ covers burglary, theft, car theft, arson and vandalism, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each property crime against what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for car theft, and the people and parking around stores for theft.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Spenard is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
