Forest Grove, OR has a C safety grade (54/100) with a violent crime rate of 337 per 100,000, 4% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Forest Grove (26,992 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then OR and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Forest Grove, OR is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 4% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Forest Grove, OR shows violent crime at 337.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,367.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 4% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 218.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 337.1 in 2024 (+54.2%). The highest observed value was 428.6 in 2023 and the lowest 218.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Forest Grove's 337.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Reedsport (324.0), Cornelius (322.9), Astoria (322.6), Hermiston (317.9). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
At 337.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Forest Grove ranks 15 of 88 — above 73 of the 87 other Oregon cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +52.9% against the cohort median of 220.4. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 19.8% of the 460 Part I offenses reported in Forest Grove for 2024, against a median of 11.4% across comparable Oregon cities — a gap of 8.4 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property counts dominate Forest Grove's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 6 Census sq mi, Forest Grove logged 61.6 property and 15.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Forest Grove's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 460 offenses; mix index 4,293).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Forest Grove offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 369 | 1367.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 287 | 1063.3 |
| Burglary | 55 | 203.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 27 | 100 |
| Arson | 5 | 18.5 |
| Violent Crime | 91 | 337.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 65 | 240.8 |
| Rape | 21 | 77.8 |
| Robbery | 5 | 18.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 26,065 | 218.7 | 2048.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 25,890 | 301.3 | 1502.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 26,016 | 357.5 | 1906.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 27,067 | 428.6 | 1455.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 26,992 | 337.1 | 1367.1 |
Forest Grove Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Forest Grove's 460 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Oregon cities closest to Forest Grove in population. Their populations run from 20,949 to 30,138, against 26,992 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Forest Grove sits at 337.1/100K violent (grade C); the Oregon cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Forest Grove at 337.1/100K violent and 1,367.1/100K property - matched below outside Oregon (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
337.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,367.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-21.3% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Forest Grove reported 91 violent crimes and 369 property crimes, for a total of 460 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Forest Grove's violent crime rate decreased by 21.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.1%.
The most common crime type in Forest Grove is larceny-theft, accounting for 62.4% of all reported crimes (287 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Forest Grove figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Forest Grove's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Forest Grove, OR rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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