2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Fairbanks, AK vs Custer, SD

#31 Emerging Metropolitan Areas

#85 Best Green Cities

#9 Best Cities After Military Service

#13 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Small Towns)

#14 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Small Towns)

#81 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)

#100 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)

#117 Best Green Cities

#284 2005 Best Places to Live

I have lived in the Fairbanks area for about 25 years and have become very comfortable with the community and the lifestyle here. That said, retirement is fast  More

Comments about Fairbanks, both positive and negative, are of interest to me. Was in Fairbanks this past March [and north on Cleary Summit] and fell in love with the  More

I came to Alaska 15 years ago on an adventure and first lived in Juneau, which I LOVED and then moved to Eagle River, which I loved and now live in Fairbanks! I do not  More

We retired and moved to the country so I could live my dream of breeding horses. Country living takes a period of adjustment, but I love country living, and it would be  More