Crime & Safety in Selbyville
Selbyville's crime picture carries a real, genuinely unresolved cross-source disagreement -- this record discloses that directly rather than picking the more flattering or more alarming citation.
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Learn moreA higher-concern citation
NeighborhoodScout characterized Selbyville's crime rate as "considerably higher than the national average," though "not among the... very highest."
Directionally opposite citations
CrimeGrade instead described Selbyville as "safer than the Delaware state average and safer than the national average"; OpenCrime cited an "A+" safety grade.
A real, disclosed positive trend
Violent crime dropped 58.3% year-over-year, with Selbyville named one of only two Delaware cities seeing both violent AND property crime decline.
Key takeaways
- Selbyville's crime data carries a real, directionally unresolved disagreement across three cited sources.
- This record does not apply a confident safety tag given that genuine disagreement.
- A real, disclosed positive trend: violent crime down 58.3% year-over-year.
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