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Kent County Crime Statistics Delaware state

In the year 2007 there were a total of 5,699 crimes in Kent County, Delaware. With a population of 147,586, there was 1 crime for every 25.9 people in the county. Out of the 5,699 crimes reported, 4,747 were crimes against property (burglery, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson) and 952 were violent crimes (murder, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery).

2007 Crime Statistics
Crime	Reported	Crime Rate*
Murder	6	4.07
Rape	84	56.92
Robbery	141	95.54
Assault	721	488.53
Burglary	929	629.46
Larceny	3,504	2374.21
Vehicle	288	195.14
Arson	26	17.6

The 2007 crime rate was 3,861.5 incidents per 100,000 people. A -0.3% change in the total crime rate from 2006 (3,872.1 incidents). There were 645.0 violent crimes reported per 100,000 people resulting in a 5.4% change (from 633.5 incidents). Property crimes changed 2.8% from (3,238.6) the previous year to 3,216.4 per 100,000 people.

Kent County ranks #2 for violent crimes and #2 for crimes against property in the state. While it ranks #2,640 and #2,339 for violent and property related offenses respectively in the nation.

A snapshot of the most current crime statistics are shown in the chart to the left and historical criminal data is shown in the charts below.

Kent County Criminal Records
Kent County Jails
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Year	Murder	Murder Rate*	Rape	Rape Rate*	Robbery	Robbery Rate*	Agg. Assault	Agg. Asslt Rate*
2006	8	5.6	93	65.2	146	102.4	656	460.2
2005	4	2.9	78	56.6	99	71.8	695	504.2
2004	4	3.0	77	57.7	136	101.9	721	540.4
2003	5	3.9	88	67.9	114	87.9	799	616.2
2002	3	2.4	68	53.3	128	100.4	681	534.0
2001	2	1.6	85	67.6	109	86.7	664	528.0
2000	1	0.8	0	0.0	124	100.2	683	551.9
1999	1	0.8	0	0.0	154	125.1	583	473.7
1998	4	3.3	0	0.0	167	136.9	705	578.0
1997	3	2.5	98	81.0	140	115.7	588	486.1
1996	5	4.2	109	91.0	152	126.9	563	469.9
1995	3	2.5	138	116.5	171	144.3	496	418.6
1994	3	2.6	84	72.5	115	99.2	437	377.0

Year	Burglary	Burglary Rate*	Larceny	Larceny Rate*	Vehicle Theft	Vhcl Theft Rate*	Arson	Arson Rate*
2006	913	640.6	3,337	2341.2	333	233.6	33	23.2
2005	786	570.2	3,199	2320.6	288	208.9	31	22.5
2004	914	685.1	3,379	2532.7	336	251.8	30	22.5
2003	880	678.6	3,461	2669.1	269	207.4	31	23.9
2002	781	612.5	3,263	2558.8	248	194.5	26	20.4
2001	780	620.3	3,228	2567.1	231	183.7	34	27.0
2000	799	645.6	3,346	2703.6	270	218.2	31	25.0
1999	859	697.9	3,734	3033.7	252	204.7	3	2.4
1998	973	797.8	4,149	3401.7	342	280.4	2	1.6
1997	1,044	863.0	3,855	3186.7	275	227.3	3	2.5
1996	991	827.1	3,866	3226.5	353	294.6	1	0.8
1995	994	838.8	3,387	2858.2	248	209.3	4	3.4
1994	769	663.4	3,847	3318.9	380	327.8	5	4.3

*Crime Rate is based on number of reported cases per 100,000 population