Buckroe is a neighborhood of 14,900 residents in Hampton, about 2 miles northeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Buckroe in Hampton safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B-, Buckroe has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 77% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Violent and property crime both grade B- here. Hampton as a whole grades B-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Buckroe run from A to C, so check the map below.
B-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 593 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
23% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Buckroe as a whole, and 77% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Buckroe scores 593.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Buckroe, Hampton, VA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Buckroe in Hampton, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Buckroe
Aggravated assault is a strength. Buckroe grades B- for violent crime, but aggravated assault grades A-.
How Buckroe compares within Hampton
Most of Buckroe grades well: 63% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across Buckroe run from A to C; 7% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
63%37%
A or B 63%C 37%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Buckroe has less crime than 5 of the 10 neighborhoods in Hampton. It covers much of the Buckroe area and the Foxhill and North King St areas.
Is crime going up in Hampton?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Hampton as a whole is down 13%, while property crime has held about steady. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 2.9 to 2.5 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts stayed at about 29 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 14%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
HamptonUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Hampton. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Hampton
Violent, US
Property, Hampton
Property, US
2016
+13%
+4%
+18%
+15%
2017
+6%
+4%
+11%
+12%
2018
-16%
+0%
+1%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-9%
+4%
-17%
-8%
2021
-0%
+6%
-15%
-10%
2022
-4%
+5%
+0%
-6%
2023
+0%
+2%
+4%
-7%
2024
-13%
-4%
-1%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Buckroe
CrimeGrade™ estimates Buckroe has about 41 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 11% more than the US as a whole and 25% less than Hampton as a whole.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft is the most common crime in Buckroe, about 40% of everything reported, but assault costs more, because each one does more harm.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when crime happens in Hampton
The Hampton Police Department polices Buckroe; these figures cover Hampton as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Hampton as a whole, 66% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 51% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (66%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (38%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (51%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (45%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (42%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (45%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Buckroe compares with nearby neighborhoods
Buckroe has less crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Two things set Buckroe apart: it has 6 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 13% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report less theft and robbery, yet theft runs higher here than that would suggest.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.6 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 96% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.13% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 87% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 86% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (19 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 75% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.4.2 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 85% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Buckroe
Crime costs Buckroe about $1,059 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 12% less than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $20 million a year, or $1,325 per resident.
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Buckroe means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Buckroe, Hampton, VA average a SchoolGrade of B-: 75% of students test proficient, against 47% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Buckroe on SchoolGrade
