CrimeMetric

Crime in Dover Base Housing, Delaware

Major crime in Dover Base Housing is 78% below the U.S. rate per resident: 61% lower for persons crimes and 82% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 5.7% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
22
78% below the U.S. rate
79% below the Delaware rate
down 5.7% in a year
Persons crimes
39
61% below the U.S. rate
65% below the Delaware rate
about flat in a year
Property crimes
18
82% below the U.S. rate
82% below the Delaware rate
down 8.5% in a year
Social disorder
69
31% below the U.S. rate
50% below the Delaware rate
down 2.9% in a year

Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.

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Crime by type

Every crime type in Dover Base Housing is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Dover Base Housing for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Dover Base Housing

Dover Base Housing is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 12; the middle half of residents live where it is between 12 and 29.

Map of Dover Base Housing, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–50100.0%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest at night

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm19
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am25
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm18
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am25
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 5.7% in a year; across Delaware it fell 9.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-5.7%DE -9.1%-5.4%DE -8.8%
Persons crimes+0.7%DE -1.4%+5.6%DE +2.5%
Property crimes-8.5%DE -10.8%-10.7%DE -11.6%
Social disorder-2.9%DE -7.0%-2.9%DE -2.0%

Change in expected crimes, with Delaware as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.

Similar-size places

Dover Base Housing against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents

1,668 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Dover Base Housing; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:

Windsor, MO3,125132
Dover Base Housing, DE3,12122

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Dover Base Housing has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Camden (4 mi), is 10.1 times Dover Base Housing's rate.

Dover4 mi292
Camden4 mi217
Smyrna13 mi140
Denton, MD23 mi124
Milford15 mi98
Middletown26 mi93
Milton26 mi39
Dover Base Housing22

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Dover Base Housing

What are the most common crimes in Dover Base Housing?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 3 a year), other larceny (about 3 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 2 a year). Compared with the U.S., disorderly conduct stands out most: about the U.S. rate per resident.

How we calculated this

Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Dover Base Housing's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Dover Base Housing has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
  • Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
  • Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
  • Residents: 3,121. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Dover Base Housing, Delaware." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/de/dover-base-housing

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100