Delaware Crime Rates: Safest & Most Dangerous Cities

How safe is Delaware? FBI UCR data snapshot

Delaware (DE) reported 3,869 violent crimes and 18,647 property crimes in 2024, based on FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program submissions from 63 law enforcement agencies. That translates to a statewide violent crime rate of 367.8 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 1772.7 per 100,000 against a reporting population of 1,051,917. The PlainCrime dataset indexes 38 Delaware cities and 1 counties, each with their own detail pages and local crime figures drawn from FBI UCR Tables 8 and 10.

The FBI's state-level summary reports violent and property crime as aggregate totals rather than broken out by individual offense type (murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, arson). For an offense-by-offense breakdown, see the individual city and county pages for Delaware below, which draw on FBI UCR Tables 8 and 10 and do report each offense type separately.

Across 11 years of state-level UCR history (2014–2024), the violent crime rate moved from 488.2 to 367.8 per 100,000, a decline of 24.7%. City-level detail pages within Delaware include safety grades (A+ to F), benchmarks against national averages, per-capita risk estimates, and multi-year trend tables for users comparing specific jurisdictions. All figures above are drawn from FBI UCR 2024 submissions; reporting completeness varies by agency, and the FBI periodically restates prior-year figures as late submissions arrive.

State figures roll up the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) submissions from local and county agencies across the state, then express them per 100,000 residents so one state can be compared with another. Statewide averages hide a great deal of variation: a handful of large cities often account for much of a state's reported violent crime, while most of its land area and population live with markedly lower rates. Reporting completeness also differs between states, so a year-over-year change can reflect which agencies filed data as much as any real shift on the ground. Read a state number as the broad backdrop, then drill into the city and county pages for the local detail that actually shapes day-to-day decisions.