Table 8

DELAWARE
Offenses Known to Law Enforcement
by State by City, 2006

City	Population	Violent crime	Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter	Forcible rape	Robbery	Aggravated assault	Property crime	Burglary	Larceny-theft	Motor vehicle theft	Arson¹
Bethany Beach	954	9	0	1	1	7	148	21	127	0	0
Blades	1,011	4	0	1	0	3	23	5	18	0	0
Bridgeville	1,597	12	0	0	0	12	63	15	47	1	0
Camden	2,308	14	0	2	3	9	169	14	149	6	0
Cheswold	349	4	0	0	1	3	26	2	23	1	0
Clayton	1,417	6	0	1	1	4	20	6	14	0	0
Dagsboro	562	0	0	0	0	0	6	2	4	0	0
Delaware City	1,528	8	0	0	2	6	33	11	21	1	0
Delmar	1,500	6	0	2	1	3	71	25	43	3	0
Dewey Beach	315	21	0	1	1	19	92	22	69	1	1
Dover	34,693	289	2	17	47	223	1,702	142	1,435	125	12
Ellendale	348	2	0	0	0	2	6	1	5	0	0
Elsmere	5,790	24	0	2	10	12	221	54	130	37	1
Felton	848	2	0	1	0	1	17	1	16	0	0
Fenwick Island	361	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Georgetown	4,969	84	0	6	28	50	226	52	164	10	1
Greenwood	893	3	0	0	2	1	21	2	19	0	0
Harrington	3,274	25	0	4	1	20	121	42	74	5	1
Laurel	3,867	69	0	5	11	53	207	43	149	15	1
Lewes	3,153	3	0	1	0	2	109	41	66	2	0
Milford	7,286	63	0	3	16	44	489	65	398	26	0
Millsboro	2,535	13	0	1	4	8	144	45	93	6	0
Milton	1,812	15	0	2	3	10	105	45	59	1	1
Newark	30,415	183	0	14	78	91	1,169	215	840	114	10
New Castle	4,893	38	0	3	10	25	279	42	218	19	0
Newport	1,119	16	1	0	1	14	41	10	28	3	0
Ocean View	1,107	6	0	1	0	5	34	14	18	2	0
Rehoboth Beach	1,574	13	0	4	1	8	235	25	206	4	0
Seaford	7,080	82	2	6	32	42	409	79	318	12	0
Selbyville	1,763	7	0	0	1	6	51	11	39	1	0
Smyrna	7,500	46	0	5	11	30	243	26	199	18	3
South Bethany	520	0	0	0	0	0	8	1	7	0	0
Wilmington	73,645	1,354	19	48	565	722	4,090	972	2,345	773	4
Wyoming	1,257	8	0	2	1	5	36	11	23	2	0

¹ The FBI does not publish arson data unless it receives data from either the agency or the state for all 12 months of the calendar year.

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