CrimeMetric

Crime in Groton, Connecticut

Major crime in Groton is 59% below the U.S. rate per resident: 60% lower for persons crimes and 59% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.0% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
41
59% below the U.S. rate
39% below the Connecticut rate
down 8.0% in a year
Persons crimes
40
60% below the U.S. rate
28% above the Connecticut rate
down 5.4% in a year
Property crimes
41
59% below the U.S. rate
45% below the Connecticut rate
down 8.5% in a year
Social disorder
103
about the U.S. rate
1.8 times the Connecticut rate
down 6.1% in a year

Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.

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Crime by type

Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 1.6 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Groton for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Groton

The middle half of Groton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 22 and 48; the typical (median) resident's is 46.

Map of Groton, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5081.9%
  • 50–10018.1%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm52
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am32
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm45
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am24
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.0% in a year; across Connecticut it fell 8.3%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.0%CT -8.3%-5.7%CT -11.6%
Persons crimes-5.4%CT -12.3%+7.5%CT -4.5%
Property crimes-8.5%CT -7.9%-8.5%CT -12.3%
Social disorder-6.1%CT -10.5%-1.0%CT -5.5%

Change in expected crimes, with Connecticut as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.

Similar-size places

Groton against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

1,699 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Groton; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Roxboro, NC10,114163
Carroll, IA10,11468
Crete, IL10,11356
Groton, CT10,10141
Hampton, NH10,11539
Bogota, NJ10,10229
Commerce, GA10,09226

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Groton has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Long Hill (1 mi), is 1.5 times Groton's rate.

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Groton

What are the most common crimes in Groton?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 37 a year), aggravated assault (about 8 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 8 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 1.6 times the U.S. rate per resident.

How we calculated this

Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Groton's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Groton has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
  • Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
  • Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
  • Residents: 10,101. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Groton, Connecticut." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ct/groton

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100