Delray Beach, FL has a D safety grade (35/100) with a violent crime rate of 422 per 100,000, 20% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 Per-capita rates FBI UCR + NIBRS
Delray Beach, FL Crime Rate & Safety
Compiled by PlainCrime, Independent crime-data publisher
At 67,780 residents, Delray Beach is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against FL and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Delray Beach, FL carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 20% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Delray Beach, FL shows violent crime at 422 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,630.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 20% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
D safety grade
422/100K violent
2630.6/100K property
+20% vs U.S.
The verdict
Delray Beach earns a D safety grade: violent crime runs 20% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
D
PlainCrime safety grade
+20%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
19th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
2,630.6
property crimes per 100K
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Delray Beach, FL
Comparable rate records
Delray Beach's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Florida cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Delray Beach's 422.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Belleview (425.1), Brooksville (426.3), Temple Terrace (417.6), Boynton Beach (417.3). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
Delray Beach reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Florida cities
At 422.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Delray Beach ranks 32 of 126 — above 94 of the 125 other Florida cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +119.0% against the cohort median of 192.7. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 568.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 422.0 in 2024 (-25.8%). The highest observed value was 568.9 in 2020 and the lowest 82.9 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Delray Beach's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+66.7%
253.2 → 422/100K
Property Crime Rate
+76.6%
1489.4 → 2630.6/100K
Property offenses lead Delray Beach's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs FL
Property Crime
1,783
2630.6
1030
Larceny-Theft
1,541
2273.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
125
184.4
-
Burglary
117
172.6
-
Arson
3
4.4
-
Violent Crime
286
422
210.3
Aggravated Assault
220
324.6
-
Robbery
37
54.6
-
Rape
27
39.8
-
Murder
2
3
-
Delray Beach Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Delray Beach property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
2,630.6/100K↑76.6%vs 2023
Delray Beach violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
422/100K↑66.7%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
70,487
568.9
3431.8
2,820
2021
Insufficient reporting
70,524
-
-
-
2022
Comparable
66,308
82.9
95
118
2023
Comparable
67,141
253.2
1489.4
1,170
2024
Comparable
67,780
422
2630.6
2,069
How Delray Beach sits among FL peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Delray Beach Police Department NIBRS-participating
Delray Beach's crime figures on this page originate from Delray Beach Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in Florida
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Florida cities closest to Delray Beach in population. Their populations run from 57,503 to 70,046, against 67,780 here. Or use our
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These Florida cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Delray Beach's 422/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Delray Beach has a violent crime rate of 422 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 2630.6 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Delray Beach, FL safe? ▼
Delray Beach receives a safety grade of D (Below Average), with a safety score of 35/100. The violent crime rate is 20% above the national average and 101% above the Florida average.
What is the population of Delray Beach, FL? ▼
The reporting population for Delray Beach is 67,780 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Delray Beach? ▼
In 2024, Delray Beach reported 286 violent crimes and 1,783 property crimes, for a total of 2,069 reported offenses.
How do Delray Beach's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Delray Beach recorded about one reported offense per 33 residents and one reported violent offense per 237 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Delray Beach? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Delray Beach's violent crime rate increased by 66.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 76.6%.
What is the most common crime in Delray Beach? ▼
The most common crime type in Delray Beach is larceny-theft, accounting for 74.5% of all reported crimes (1,541 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Delray Beach's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Delray Beach, FL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.