Read each measure in its own context.
This profile contains 4 distinct source-backed measures. Compare each figure with its reporting period and geographic scope rather than treating the page as a single safety score or personal-risk estimate.
Crime and safety indicators
What these numbers can—and cannot—tell you
Recorded crime depends on reporting practices, police recording systems, geographic boundaries and the period being measured. A lower figure in one category does not establish that every neighborhood, time of day or traveler faces the same risk.
When comparing cities, use like-for-like measures whenever possible. Municipality data should not be directly ranked against metro-area data or a different reporting definition without adjustment.
NCRB metropolitan-city annual context
These are NCRB-published annual figures for the Metropolitan City reporting geography in 2023. The OGD resources were published in 2026, but that publication date does not make them 2026 crime figures. Counts and rates are shown only when the NCRB Metropolitan City geography and source row match exactly. NCRB cautions that States/UTs/Cities should not be compared purely on the basis of crime figures; these figures are police-recorded annual statistics, not an individual probability of victimisation or a site safety score.
IPC & SLL cognizable crimes
2023 reporting year
Geography: NCRB Metropolitan City: Delhi City (Delhi)
IPC & SLL cognizable crime rate
2023 reporting year
Geography: NCRB Metropolitan City: Delhi City (Delhi)
Violent crimes — incidence
2023 reporting year
Geography: NCRB Metropolitan City: Delhi City (Delhi)
Violent crime rate
2023 reporting year
Geography: NCRB Metropolitan City: Delhi City (Delhi)
NCRB IPC+SLL recorded-crime count history
This supplemental history preserves the direct annual IPC & SLL cognizable-crime counts from the same NCRB Table 1B.3 Metropolitan City row for 2021, 2022 and 2023. These are counts, not population-adjusted rates; 2021 and 2022 rates are not reconstructed from an assumed denominator. Changes in police-recorded crime can reflect reporting, registration, policing/enforcement and administrative practices, so the comparisons are context rather than a city ranking or an individual probability of victimisation.
Geography: NCRB Metropolitan City: Delhi City (Delhi)
2021 IPC & SLL cognizable crimes
Direct NCRB Table 1B.3 count
2022 IPC & SLL cognizable crimes
Direct NCRB Table 1B.3 count
2023 IPC & SLL cognizable crimes
Direct NCRB Table 1B.3 count
Like-for-like count changes
2021 → 2022
Direct annual count difference
- 2021
- 303,293 cases
- 2022
- 318,555 cases
- Percent change
- 5.0%
2021 → 2023
Direct annual count difference
- 2021
- 303,293 cases
- 2023
- 343,483 cases
- Percent change
- 13.3%
2022 → 2023
Direct annual count difference
- 2022
- 318,555 cases
- 2023
- 343,483 cases
- Percent change
- 7.8%