Crime in Smyrna, Delaware
Major crime in Smyrna is 40% above the U.S. rate per resident: 1.6 times for persons crimes and 34% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.2% 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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Intimidation stands out most, at 4.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Smyrna 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 Smyrna
The middle half of Smyrna residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 110 and 179; the typical (median) resident's is 135.
- 0–5014.4%
- 50–1007.5%
- 100–20069.8%
- 200–4008.3%
- 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 7.2% 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.
Smyrna against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
343 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Smyrna; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Smyrna 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, Dover (9 mi), is 2.1 times Smyrna's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Smyrna
What are the most common crimes in Smyrna?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 107 a year), other larceny (about 79 a year) and aggravated assault (about 58 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 4.2 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. Smyrna's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Smyrna's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 8.3% 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: 12,625. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Smyrna, Delaware." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/de/smyrna
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Dover9 mi292
- Middletown13 mi93
- Camden13 mi217
- Dover Base Housing13 mi22
- Salem, NJ21 mi150
- Bridgeton, NJ22 mi143
- Glasgow23 mi87
- Bear23 mi80