Crime in Milford, Delaware
Major crime in Milford is about the U.S. rate per resident: 39% higher for persons crimes and 12% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.3% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 3.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Milford 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 Milford
The middle half of Milford residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 60 and 106; the typical (median) resident's is 79. The citywide figure (98) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5017.9%
- 50–10055.7%
- 100–2008.6%
- 200–40017.8%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.3% 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.
Milford against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
706 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Milford; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Milford has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Milton (11 mi), is 61% below Milford's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Milford
What are the most common crimes in Milford?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 82 a year), aggravated assault (about 56 a year) and shoplifting (about 51 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 3.0 times 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. Milford's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Milford's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 38.6% 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: 15,170. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Milford, Delaware." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/de/milford
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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