Photo: Roland Balik · Public domainSafety in Dover Base Housing: figures, but no grade
Inside a 10-mile circle sit 5 graded neighbors. Dover Base Housing has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on. The closest graded town is Dover, 4 miles away, at D−.
The nearest Delaware towns with a Safety Grade
Straight-line distance from the center of Dover Base Housing. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Dover Base Housing.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
One person died in crashes on Dover Base Housing’s roads in 2019–2023
Dover Base Housing had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died. Most of these deaths (1 of 1) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is about what is typical for Delaware towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (5.3 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Dover Base Housing’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Dover Base Housing’s own rate (6.8) is context, not a ranking.
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.
Dover Base Housing and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dover | D− | 8.6 | 54.5 |
| Rising Sun-Lebanon | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Rising Sun-Lebanon is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own.
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.
- A county agency covers a wide area. Its totals mix many communities, so they say little about any one of them.
- 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 Dover Base Housing
Is Dover Base Housing, DE safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Dover Base Housing. The nearest Delaware towns with a grade are Dover (D−, 4 mi), Camden (D, 4 mi), Wyoming (C+, 4 mi).
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Neighbors looking out for each other in Dover Base Housing.
Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 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.