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Delaware Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing Delaware cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.

Cities ranked
9
Supported Delaware cities with tract-backed crime context.
Leaderboard

Current order from the latest data

Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.

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1 Wilmington
Violent Crime has declined 21% since 2021.
9.6 / 1k
2 Dover
Violent Crime has increased 16% since 2021.
8.8 / 1k
3 Rehoboth Beach
Violent Crime has declined 14% since 2021.
6.4 / 1k
4 Millsboro
Violent Crime has declined 36% since 2021.
4.4 / 1k
5 Newark
Violent Crime has increased 7% since 2021.
3.0 / 1k
6 New Castle
Violent Crime has declined 13% since 2021.
2.7 / 1k
7 Lewes
Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021.
2.2 / 1k
8 Middletown
Violent Crime has declined 45% since 2021.
1.1 / 1k
9 Frederica
Violent Crime has declined 100% since 2021.
0.0 / 1k
Research notes

How to read this ranking

Research note

What this ranking means

This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Delaware cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.

Research note

What this ranking can miss

A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.