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Sussex County Crime Statistics Delaware state

In the year 2007 there were a total of 6,808 crimes in Sussex County, Delaware. With a population of 187,446, there was 1 crime for every 27.5 people in the county. Out of the 6,808 crimes reported, 5,656 were crimes against property (burglery, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson) and 1,152 were violent crimes (murder, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery).

2007 Crime Statistics
Crime	Reported	Crime Rate*
Murder	5	2.67
Rape	87	46.41
Robbery	215	114.70
Assault	845	450.80
Burglary	1,642	875.99
Larceny	3,758	2004.84
Vehicle	256	136.57
Arson	0	0.0

The 2007 crime rate was 3,632.0 incidents per 100,000 people. A -3.0% change in the total crime rate from 2006 (3,745.5 incidents). There were 614.6 violent crimes reported per 100,000 people resulting in a 10.8% change (from 572.2 incidents). Property crimes changed -1.9% from (3,173.3) the previous year to 3,017.4 per 100,000 people.

Sussex County ranks #1 for violent crimes and #1 for crimes against property in the state. While it ranks #2,604 and #2,225 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.

Sussex County Criminal Records
Sussex County Jails

Year	Murder	Murder Rate*	Rape	Rape Rate*	Robbery	Robbery Rate*	Agg. Assault	Agg. Asslt Rate*
2006	2	1.1	97	53.4	161	88.6	780	429.1
2005	10	5.6	108	60.7	132	74.1	852	478.5
2004	1	0.6	79	45.5	139	80.0	707	406.9
2003	4	2.4	77	45.6	123	72.8	758	448.4
2002	7	4.3	95	57.8	134	81.5	686	417.2
2001	2	1.2	116	71.5	112	69.1	697	429.9
2000	3	1.9	0	0.0	121	75.8	765	479.4
1999	2	1.4	0	0.0	147	104.1	769	544.6
1998	1	0.7	0	0.0	121	87.1	882	634.6
1997	4	3.0	114	86.4	174	131.9	832	630.9
1996	10	7.7	92	70.4	157	120.2	820	627.7
1995	12	9.3	125	96.7	110	85.1	725	561.1
1994	0	0.0	18	14.4	54	43.2	189	151.1

Year	Burglary	Burglary Rate*	Larceny	Larceny Rate*	Vehicle Theft	Vhcl Theft Rate*	Arson	Arson Rate*
2006	1,639	901.7	3,844	2114.8	284	156.2	1	0.6
2005	1,355	761.0	3,553	1995.6	272	152.8	1	0.6
2004	1,434	825.3	3,361	1934.3	222	127.8	0	0.0
2003	1,316	778.5	3,373	1995.4	220	130.1	1	0.6
2002	1,141	694.0	3,150	1915.9	238	144.8	0	0.0
2001	975	601.4	3,142	1937.9	207	127.7	1	0.6
2000	1,074	673.0	3,270	2049.2	157	98.4	1	0.6
1999	1,109	785.4	3,417	2420.0	190	134.6	1	0.7
1998	1,303	937.5	3,671	2641.3	212	152.5	1	0.7
1997	1,310	993.3	3,779	2865.5	186	141.0	1	0.8
1996	1,380	1056.4	3,864	2958.0	175	134.0	1	0.8
1995	1,320	1021.7	3,262	2524.8	130	100.6	0	0.0
1994	390	311.9	1,521	1216.3	42	33.6	1	0.8

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