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New Castle County Crime Statistics Delaware state

In the year 2007 there were a total of 23,136 crimes in New Castle County, Delaware. With a population of 529,732, there was 1 crime for every 22.9 people in the county. Out of the 23,136 crimes reported, 19,083 were crimes against property (burglery, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson) and 4,053 were violent crimes (murder, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery).

2007 Crime Statistics
Crime	Reported	Crime Rate*
Murder	28	5.29
Rape	176	33.22
Robbery	1,425	269.00
Assault	2,424	457.59
Burglary	3,894	735.09
Larceny	13,378	2525.43
Vehicle	1,807	341.12
Arson	4	0.8

The 2007 crime rate was 4,367.5 incidents per 100,000 people. A -1.1% change in the total crime rate from 2006 (4,415.1 incidents). There were 765.1 violent crimes reported per 100,000 people resulting in a 0.3% change (from 763.4 incidents). Property crimes changed -1.2% from (3,651.7) the previous year to 3,602.4 per 100,000 people.

New Castle County ranks #3 for violent crimes and #3 for crimes against property in the state. While it ranks #2,725 and #2,498 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.

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Year	Murder	Murder Rate*	Rape	Rape Rate*	Robbery	Robbery Rate*	Agg. Assault	Agg. Asslt Rate*
2006	32	6.0	227	42.9	1,484	280.4	2,297	434.1
2005	24	4.5	203	38.5	1,120	212.3	2,160	409.4
2004	23	4.4	201	38.4	1,068	204.1	1,949	372.5
2003	12	2.3	205	39.5	1,204	232.1	2,136	411.7
2002	20	3.9	229	44.4	1,058	205.3	1,973	382.8
2001	25	4.9	243	47.8	950	186.9	1,931	379.9
2000	20	4.0	0	0.0	1,169	233.7	2,078	415.4
1999	21	4.3	0	0.0	1,191	243.2	2,137	436.4
1998	18	3.7	0	0.0	1,199	248.2	2,208	457.1
1997	11	2.3	431	90.0	1,262	263.4	1,947	406.3
1996	20	4.2	221	46.6	1,261	265.7	1,580	332.9
1995	2	0.4	156	33.2	998	212.7	1,138	242.5
1994	20	4.3	293	63.0	676	145.4	1,414	304.1

Year	Burglary	Burglary Rate*	Larceny	Larceny Rate*	Vehicle Theft	Vhcl Theft Rate*	Arson	Arson Rate*
2006	3,785	715.3	13,268	2507.3	2,267	428.4	4	0.8
2005	3,741	709.0	11,576	2194.0	1,829	346.6	5	0.9
2004	3,321	634.8	12,545	2397.8	1,744	333.3	5	1.0
2003	3,870	746.0	12,099	2332.2	2,455	473.2	4	0.8
2002	3,646	707.3	12,233	2373.3	2,697	523.2	6	1.2
2001	3,460	680.7	13,340	2624.5	2,371	466.5	7	1.4
2000	3,323	664.2	14,593	2917.1	2,721	543.9	9	1.8
1999	3,277	669.2	15,483	3161.6	2,601	531.1	10	2.0
1998	4,191	867.6	16,819	3481.8	2,763	572.0	11	2.3
1997	3,850	803.5	17,788	3712.4	3,910	816.0	7	1.5
1996	3,222	679.0	13,610	2868.0	2,805	591.1	9	1.9
1995	2,417	515.0	10,546	2247.2	1,522	324.3	13	2.8
1994	3,220	692.4	10,652	2290.6	3,800	817.1	14	3.0

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