Property crime in Delaware
Delaware had 1,585.5 reported property crimes per 100,000 people in 2025, higher than the US rate of 1,552.3. That ranks 19 of 50 (1 = highest). The rate was down 10.6% from 2024, down 29.9% from 2019, down 41.7% from 2015.
2015 to 2025
DelawareUnited States
Reported property crimes per 100,000 people. Gaps mark years with low reporting coverage.
By type
Larceny-theftBurglaryMotor vehicle theft
Delaware: reported offenses per 100,000 people, by type
Year by year
| Year | Property crime | Burglary | Larceny-theft | Motor vehicle theft | Arson | Property crimes reported | Cleared | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,585.5 | 157.9 | 1,228.2 | 191.0 | 8.5 | 16,805 | 35.3% | 100.0% |
| 2024 | 1,773.8 | 177.4 | 1,373.9 | 211.6 | 11.0 | 18,657 | 32.1% | 100.0% |
| 2023 | 1,959.4 | 179.5 | 1,518.0 | 249.8 | 12.0 | 20,212 | 28.5% | 100.0% |
| 2022 | 1,991.5 | 204.7 | 1,600.5 | 175.2 | 11.1 | 20,254 | 26.5% | 99.9% |
| 2021 | 1,904.0 | 239.4 | 1,482.1 | 166.9 | 15.6 | 19,101 | 25.5% | 100.0% |
| 2020 | 1,979.6 | 255.5 | 1,541.1 | 169.0 | 14.1 | 19,531 | 28.5% | 100.0% |
| 2019 | 2,262.1 | 305.5 | 1,779.4 | 164.0 | 13.2 | 22,011 | 31.8% | 99.9% |
| 2018 | 2,329.8 | 325.0 | 1,838.8 | 152.0 | 14.2 | 22,526 | 29.4% | 100.0% |
| 2017 | 2,447.2 | 410.7 | 1,881.1 | 141.1 | 14.4 | 23,541 | 31.7% | 100.0% |
| 2016 | 2,789.1 | 528.2 | 2,081.2 | 160.7 | 19.0 | 26,550 | 33.0% | 100.0% |
| 2015 | 2,717.5 | 507.1 | 2,067.3 | 126.1 | 17.0 | 25,706 | 33.9% | 100.0% |
Rates are per 100,000 people. "Cleared" is offenses cleared by arrest or exceptional means during the year as a share of offenses reported that year. Clearances can include offenses from earlier years. We leave it out when the source has months with more clearances than plausible. "Coverage" is the share of the state population served by agencies that reported.
Rows in italics: fewer than 80% of the population was covered by agencies reporting that year, mostly during the 2021 switch to the FBI's new incident-based system (NIBRS). Rates for those years are less reliable and we do not use them for comparisons. We also skip comparisons between years whose coverage differs by more than 10 points, because a different set of agencies was reporting.
Other crime types
Sources
- FBI Crime Data Explorer, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, summarized reported offenses and clearances (monthly), retrieved through the CDE data service
- FBI, Uniform Crime Reporting Program: offense definitions and data participation
- FBI, National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) transition
Data refreshed by the FBI on 15 October 2026. Checked 29 October 2026. Figures are offenses reported to police and submitted to the FBI, not estimates of all crime.