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Safest cities in Delaware? Lowest and highest property-crime candidates

Use this hub to compare validated Delaware city candidates by reported selected property-offense rate. It is a cautious city-page index, not a statewide safety ranking or personal-risk score.

Candidate-city rate 34.19 per 1,000 residents across listed cities; not a statewide risk score

Validated cities11Current candidate pages

Candidate population233,623Sum of listed city estimates

Selected offenses7,988FBI NIBRS offense records

Highest-rate city candidates

Use the city pages for source notes, trend handling, and offense mix. Small or ambiguous places remain outside automatic publication.

40,311 residents Dover 61.42 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 8,125 residents Georgetown 51.57 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 8,981 residents Seaford 46.77 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 14,074 residents Milford 36.17 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 5,699 residents New Castle 34.74 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 73,179 residents Wilmington 32.77 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents

Lowest-rate city candidates

Searchers often ask for the safest cities in a state. This section answers that intent carefully by showing the lowest reported selected property-offense rates among validated city candidates only.

25,551 residents Middletown 15.54 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 6,221 residents Elsmere 17.52 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 30,422 residents Newark 19.92 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 13,336 residents Smyrna 20.02 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 7,724 residents Millsboro 24.47 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 73,179 residents Wilmington 32.77 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents

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Delaware city candidates

City	Population	Selected offenses	Rate per 1,000	Trend
Dover	40,311	2,476	61.42	Increasing
Georgetown	8,125	419	51.57	Increasing
Seaford	8,981	420	46.77	Roughly stable
Milford	14,074	509	36.17	Mixed
New Castle	5,699	198	34.74	Roughly stable
Wilmington	73,179	2,398	32.77	Decreasing
Millsboro	7,724	189	24.47	Roughly stable
Smyrna	13,336	267	20.02	Decreasing
Newark	30,422	606	19.92	Roughly stable
Elsmere	6,221	109	17.52	Roughly stable
Middletown	25,551	397	15.54	Decreasing

Important context

These figures are based on reported selected property offenses and Census population context for validated city candidates. Agency reporting boundaries can differ from municipal boundaries, so the methodology page explains why ambiguous or tiny-denominator rows stay out of automatic publication.

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