Crime rates for Lewes, DE

Lewes has an overall crime rate of 22 per 1,000 residents, making the crime rate here near the average for all cities and towns of all sizes in America. According to our analysis of FBI crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of crime in Lewes is 1 in 45. How does Lewes fare compared to other communities in Delaware of all population sizes? Lewes's crime rate is lower than approximately 70% of Delaware communities.

However, when you compare Lewes to other cities of similar population, the Lewes crime rate (violent and property crimes combined) is quite a bit higher than average. Regardless of how Lewes does relative to all communities in America of all sizes, when NeighborhoodScout compared it to communities of similar population size, its crime rate per thousand residents stands out as higher than most.

The crime data that NeighborhoodScout used for this analysis are the seven offenses from the uniform crime reports, collected by the FBI from 17,000 local law enforcement agencies, and include both violent and property crimes, combined.

Now let us turn to take a look at how Lewes does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Lewes.

For Lewes, NeighborhoodScout found that the violent crime rate is well below the national average for all communities of all population sizes. Violent crimes such as assault, rape, murder and armed robbery happen less often in Lewes than in most of America. One's chance of becoming a victim of a violent crime here is one in 1451, which is a violent crime rate of 1 per one thousand inhabitants.

Moreover, the rate of property crime in Lewes – burglary, larceny ($50 or more), grand theft auto, and arson – is 22 per 1,000 residents. This is about average for all cities and towns in America of all population sizes.