Crime in Forest Grove, Oregon
Major crime in Forest Grove is 13% below the U.S. rate per resident: 23% higher for persons crimes and 21% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 3.4% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
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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Rape / sexual assault and intimidation stand out most, at about 1.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Forest Grove for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Forest Grove
The middle half of Forest Grove residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 43 and 116; the typical (median) resident's is 82.
- 0–5029.3%
- 50–10027.7%
- 100–20036.4%
- 200–4006.5%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 3.4% in a year; across Oregon it fell 6.2%
Change in expected crimes, with Oregon as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Forest Grove against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
411 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Forest Grove; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Forest Grove has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Cornelius (3 mi), is about Forest Grove's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Forest Grove
What are the most common crimes in Forest Grove?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 196 a year), aggravated assault (about 81 a year) and burglary (about 39 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 1.8 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. Forest Grove's figures add up its 16 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Forest Grove has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 35.3% 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: 27,263. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Forest Grove, Oregon." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/or/forest-grove
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Cornelius3 mi87
- Hillsboro8 mi107
- Rockcreek12 mi38
- Aloha12 mi69
- Oak Hills13 mi34
- Marlene Village14 mi66
- Beaverton14 mi145
- Cedar Hills15 mi76