Crime in Delray Beach, Florida
Major crime in Delray Beach is 11% above the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 13% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.7% 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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Theft from vehicle stands out most, at 48% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Delray Beach 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 Delray Beach
The middle half of Delray Beach residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 42 and 135; the typical (median) resident's is 83. The citywide figure (111) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5032.9%
- 50–10024.2%
- 100–20034.4%
- 200–4006.5%
- 400+2.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 6.7% in a year; across Florida it fell 7.8%
Change in expected crimes, with Florida as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Delray Beach against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
192 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Delray Beach; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Delray Beach has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Highland Beach (4 mi), is 67% below Delray Beach's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Delray Beach
What are the most common crimes in Delray Beach?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 445 a year), shoplifting (about 322 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 286 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 48% 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. Delray Beach's figures add up its 52 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Delray Beach's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 41.3% 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: 72,867. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Delray Beach, Florida." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/fl/delray-beach
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