Crime in Hockessin, Delaware
Major crime in Hockessin is 43% below the U.S. rate per resident: 69% lower for persons crimes and 37% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 10.9% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 18% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Hockessin for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Hockessin
The middle half of Hockessin residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 25 and 101; the typical (median) resident's is 34. The citywide figure (57) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5073.3%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–20026.7%
- 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.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 10.9% in a year; across Delaware it fell 9.1%
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.
Hockessin against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,332 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Hockessin; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Hockessin has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Pike Creek (2 mi), is 27% below Hockessin's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Hockessin
What are the most common crimes in Hockessin?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 53 a year), other larceny (about 32 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 22 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 18% above 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. Hockessin's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Hockessin has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 37.4% 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: 13,950. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Hockessin, Delaware." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/de/hockessin
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Pike Creek2 mi42
- North Star3 mi26
- Pike Creek Valley4 mi51
- Kennett Square, PA4 mi38
- Greenville5 mi104
- Elsmere6 mi73
- Wilmington7 mi237
- Newark8 mi107