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New Castle Crime Rate Report (Delaware)

New Castle crime statistics report an overall downward trend in crime based on data from 21 years with violent crime decreasing and property crime decreasing. Based on this trend, the crime rate in New Castle for 2026 is expected to be lower than in 2025.

The city violent crime rate for New Castle in 2025 was higher than the national violent crime rate average by 6% and the city property crime rate in New Castle was higher than the national property crime rate average by 50.47%.

In 2025 the city violent crime rate in New Castle was higher than the violent crime rate in Delaware by 0.11% and the city property crime rate in New Castle was higher than the property crime rate in Delaware by 48.11%.

Property and Violent Crime
New Castle Property Crime vs. State and National Per Capita
New Castle Violent Crime vs. State and National Per Capita

New Castle Crime Statistics
Summary Report

2025 Crime (Actual Data)*Incidents
Aggravated Assault16
Arson0
Burglary5
Larceny and Theft118
Motor Vehicle Theft10
Murder and Manslaughter0
Rape4
Robbery0
Crime Rate (Total Incidents)171
Property Crime133
Violent Crime20
2026 Crime (Projected Data)*Incidents
Aggravated Assault21
Arson0
Burglary5
Larceny and Theft141
Motor Vehicle Theft14
Murder and Manslaughter0
Rape1
Robbery0
Crime Rate (Total Incidents)198
Property Crime160
Violent Crime22

Property and Violent Crime Totals

New Castle Property Crime

New Castle Violent Crime

Actual versus Projected Crime Totals

New Castle Crime 2025

New Castle Crime 2026

City versus State versus National Crime Comparison

New Castle Property Crime vs. State and National Comparison

New Castle Violent Crime vs. State and National Comparison
* The source of actual data on this New Castle, Delaware crime rate report is the FBI Report of Offenses Known to Law Enforcement for the corresponding year or years. Arson numbers are reported inconsistently. Zero values may indicate the data was not available. The projected crime rate data displayed above was generated from the trends found in the years of actual reported crime data on file. In this case, the New Castle crime report data for 2026 was projected from 21 years of actual data. The last year of actual available crime data, as reported above, was 2025.

The FBI cautions the data users against comparing yearly statistical data solely on the basis of their population coverage. The comparisons made herein are thus, only meaningful upon further examination of all variables that affect crime in each reported city, state or other reported jurisdicition.



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