The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Groves, TX
Groves is a city of 18,500 in Jefferson County, about 14 miles southeast of downtown Beaumont · Updated November 2026
Is Groves, TX safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B+, Groves has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 63% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Property crime grades better than violent crime here, A against B+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Groves run from A to B-, so check the map below.
B+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 761 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
37% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Groves as a whole, and 63% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Groves scores 761.
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 Groves, TX at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Groves, 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 Groves
Car thefts are uncommon. Groves has car thefts at about half the US rate: 1.2 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
Aggravated assaults happen at homes more often than nationally. In Groves, 77% of reported aggravated assaults happen at homes, against 53% nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Groves
Every part of Groves where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Groves run from A to B-; 12% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
100%
A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Groves, the northwest side has the least crime and the south side the most.
Is crime going up in Groves?
Reported crime in Groves has fallen since 2019: violent crime is down 34% and property crime down 48%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.6 to 3.7 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 20 to 10 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 16%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
GrovesUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Groves. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Groves
Violent, US
Property, Groves
Property, US
2016
-6%
+4%
+24%
+15%
2017
-9%
+4%
+22%
+12%
2018
-17%
+0%
+0%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-8%
+4%
-7%
-8%
2021
-10%
+6%
-37%
-10%
2022
-40%
+5%
-41%
-6%
2023
-35%
+2%
-38%
-7%
2024
-34%
-4%
-48%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Groves
CrimeGrade™ estimates Groves has about 31 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 18% less than the US as a whole and 27% less than Texas.
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.
The largest share of crime reported in Groves is assault, about 47% of the total. It also makes up the largest share of what crime costs here.
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 Groves
Groves has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Groves, 61% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 46% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (61%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Homes (57%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Theft from cars
Homes (46%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (61%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (77%)
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; they are over one in five for burglary.
How Groves compares with nearby cities
Of the 7 cities closest to Groves, 6 have less crime. Beauxart Gardens and Orangefield have the least.
Parking lots, night lighting and walkability in Groves
Two things set Groves apart: it has 3.8 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 1% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places with a lot of parking-lot space tend to report more theft, yet theft runs lower here than that would suggest.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.3.8 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 93% of US city residents
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.100% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 92% of US city residents
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. 84% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (17 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 54% of US city residents
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.1% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 90% of US city residents
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Groves: F (0 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.24 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 81% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Groves on shops, parks, home prices, getting around and more.
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 Groves
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Groves about $1,020 a year per household, 15% 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 $26 million a year, or $1,400 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$1.2 million
$67
Rape
$640,000
$34
Robbery
$250,000
$14
Assault
$3.2 million
$174
Burglary
$390,000
$21
Theft
$790,000
$42
Vehicle theft
$350,000
$19
Arson
$11,000
$1
Vandalism
$450,000
$24
Total
$7.3 million
$396
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 Groves 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. Groves is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
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 Groves, TX average a SchoolGrade of D: 38% of students test proficient, against 34% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Groves on SchoolGrade
