Georgetown, DE is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 99% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Georgetown, DE shows violent crime at 702.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,989.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 99% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
702.2/100K violent
4989.5/100K property
+99% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Georgetown, DE
Comparable rate records
Georgetown's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Delaware cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Georgetown's 702.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Blades (748.5), Bethany Beach (640.4), Rehoboth Beach (635.9), Delmar (614.3). 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
Georgetown reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Delaware cities
At 702.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Georgetown ranks 8 of 38 — above 30 of the 37 other Delaware cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +138.7% against the cohort median of 294.2. 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 close to where it started
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 714.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 702.2 in 2024 (-1.7%). The highest observed value was 900.0 in 2022 and the lowest 702.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Georgetown'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Georgetown's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 5 Census sq mi, Georgetown logged 80.6 property and 11.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Georgetown's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 462 offenses; mix index 4,690).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+12.8%
4421.4 → 4989.5/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-2.5%
720.1 → 702.2/100K
Property offenses lead Georgetown's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs DE
Property Crime
405
4989.5
1711
1772.7
Larceny-Theft
297
3659
-
-
Burglary
98
1207.3
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
10
123.2
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
57
702.2
352
367.8
Aggravated Assault
46
566.7
-
-
Robbery
9
110.9
-
-
Rape
2
24.6
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Georgetown Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Georgetown property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Georgetown: 702 violent, 4990 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Millsboro: 419 violent, 2360 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Seaford: 1134 violent, 4568 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Elsmere: 245 violent, 1777 property per 100,000 (grade B)
New Castle: 378 violent, 3530 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Clayton: 110 violent, 506 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Laurel: 1451 violent, 3016 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Camden: 321 violent, 4193 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Harrington: 386 violent, 2058 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Georgetown Police Department
Reporting agency for Georgetown NIBRS-participating
Georgetown Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Georgetown's 462 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
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 Delaware
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Delaware cities closest to Georgetown in population. Their populations run from 3,888 to 8,998, against 8,117 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Georgetown reported 57 violent crimes and 405 property crimes, for a total of 462 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Georgetown?
From 2023 to 2024, Georgetown's violent crime rate decreased by 2.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 12.8%.
What is the most common crime in Georgetown?
The most common crime type in Georgetown is larceny-theft, accounting for 64.3% of all reported crimes (297 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Georgetown is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Georgetown, DE rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.