Photo: Pf1127 · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident in Delano fell 52% from 2023 to 2025
Overall, Delano grades C+ for safety (#143 of 416 graded towns in California): more crime per resident than 63% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. In a usual year, 3.3 violent crimes and 11.2 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the rest of California, 4.9 and 21.4.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of CA” is every other California city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Delano
Among California towns, closer to the middle
California’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Delano’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 66% of the 416 California towns we grade, against 37% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Delano’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (3.3) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns. Its property rate (11.2) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Delano property | Rest of California property | Delano violent | Rest of California violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 20.9 | 24.8 | 3.4 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 16.3 | 25.0 | 3.3 | 5.4 |
| 2024 | 11.1 | 20.9 | 3.4 | 4.9 |
| 2025 | 6.4 | 18.5 | 3.1 | 4.3 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of California.
Crime in Delano per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 3 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Delano | Rest of California | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.4 | 5.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 3.3 | 5.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.4 | 4.9 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 3.1 | 4.3 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Delano’s police reported 518 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.3 per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the rest of California and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
512 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
167 violent and 345 property, as reported to the FBI by Delano’s police.
13 people died in crashes on Delano’s roads in 2019–2023
Delano had 9 fatal crashes in five years, in which 13 people died; 4 were pedestrians.
That is 5.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for California towns of 25,000–100,000 people (5.6, 231 towns).
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Delano and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delano | C+ | 3.3 | 11.2 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
California towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delano | C+ | 3.3 | 11.2 |
| Diamond Bar | C+ | 1.1 | 18.1 |
| Cathedral City | C+ | 3.0 | 12.4 |
| Novato | C+ | 2.6 | 14.4 |
| Palm Desert | C− | 2.5 | 28.4 |
| Huntington Park | D | 6.7 | 33.8 |
The five graded California towns closest to Delano’s population (52,334), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Delano. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Delano’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (54,060 in 2025); our figure for Delano is 52,334 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Delano
Is Delano, CA safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Delano reports more crime per resident than 63% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #143 of 416 in California. Its police reported 3.3 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the rest of California and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Delano?
3.3 violent and 11.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of California reports 4.9 and 21.4; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Delano in 2025?
Delano’s police reported 1 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 1.8 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Who polices Delano?
Delano’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Delano”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.