Mendenhall Valley, Juneau, AK Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Mendenhall Valley is a neighborhood of 10,700 residents in Juneau, about 8 miles northwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Mendenhall Valley?
Mendenhall Valley grades B+ for violent crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 74% of Americans live. Assaults make up 87% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Juneau as a whole grades B+ for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 703 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
26% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Mendenhall Valley as a whole, and 74% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Mendenhall Valley scores 703.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in Mendenhall Valley, Juneau, AK at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Mendenhall Valley in Juneau, 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 violent crime in Mendenhall Valley
Reported rapes run high for a neighborhood with a B for violent crime. Mendenhall Valley has 1.1 reported rapes a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a US neighborhood graded B for violent crime, the figure is 0.36.
How Mendenhall Valley compares within Juneau
Every part of Mendenhall Valley where people live grades A or B for violent crime on the national scale. Violent crime grades across Mendenhall Valley run from B+ to B.
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Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Mendenhall Valley has less violent crime than 1 of the 2 neighborhoods in Juneau. It covers much of the Mendenhall Valley and Back Loop areas.
Is violent crime going up in Juneau?
Reported violent crime in Juneau as a whole has fallen 40% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 9.0 to 5.4 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
JuneauUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Juneau. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Juneau
Violent, US
2016
-4%
+4%
2017
+5%
+4%
2018
-9%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+2%
+4%
2021
-10%
+6%
2022
-31%
+5%
2023
-39%
+2%
2024
-40%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Mendenhall Valley
CrimeGrade™ estimates Mendenhall Valley has about 14 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about the same as the US as a whole and 18% less than Juneau as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Mendenhall Valley, about 87% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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.
Where and when violent crime happens in Juneau
The Juneau Police Department polices Mendenhall Valley; these figures cover Juneau as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Juneau as a whole, 53% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Aggravated assault
Homes (53%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
Violent crime in Mendenhall Valley and nearby neighborhoods
Mendenhall Valley has less violent crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Mendenhall Valley. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Mendenhall Valley has more violent crime than 59% of them.
Density, transit and walkability in Mendenhall Valley
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, one sets Mendenhall Valley apart: it has 7% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report less robbery.
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.7% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 93% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Mendenhall Valley: D (17 of 100).2 trips an hourUS: noneLower than for 84% 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 assault. 88% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (16 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 82% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.0.6 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 64% 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 violent crime costs Mendenhall Valley
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Mendenhall Valley about $15 million a year, or $1,383 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $3.2 million, or $299 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
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.
