Is Groves a good place to live?
Groves grades D overall, ranked 467th of 640 in Texas, mostly because of schools. Its schools rank behind 77% of the state's. One bright spot: the median household earns $74K. Groves’ January low is 43°F, above both the Texas town median (37°F) and the median of U.S. towns (22°F).
94% of working residents leave Groves for work
Where Groves’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Groves grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Groves is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Spindletop and 11 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Groves. Close and well known come first.
11 mi LandmarkSpindletop
14 mi National PreserveBig Thicket National Preserve228K visitors a year11 mi MuseumSpindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum
14 mi MuseumArt Museum of Southeast Texas
15 mi MuseumEdison Museum
16 mi MuseumBabe Didrikson Zaharias Museum & Visitor CenterPhoto credits
Spindletop: i_am_jim, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Big Thicket National Preserve: NPS, Public domain · Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum: i_am_jim, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Art Museum of Southeast Texas: R. Rothenberger, CC BY 3.0 · Edison Museum: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum & Visitor Center: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0
Moving to Groves: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Groves, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Groves.
Groves has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns and has home values rising while Texas’s fall, but it has a long record of flood insurance claims.
The typical home in Groves is valued at about $189K
Values rose 7.7% in the past year while the Texas typical home fell 1.5%.
The typical Groves home is worth about $189,000, 36% below the Texas typical home. 78% of households own their home in Groves.
| Groves | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 78% | 69% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,286 a month | $1,206 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Groves’ grade for schools is a C−
Its public schools are run by Port Neches-Groves ISD. One of its 3 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groves MiddleLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 647 | B+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Groves’ workers commute out
Most working residents leave Groves for work: only 6% work in town. Groves’ average trip to work is 21 minutes. Since 2013, Groves has lost 203 jobs, to 2,354 in 2023.
| Groves | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 2.8% | 9.7% | 11% |
| Average trip to work | 21 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 8% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 5.6% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Health in Groves trails 71% of U.S. towns
Groves beats the Texas average on 0 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 7. 19% of Groves adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance.
| Groves | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 8.1% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 74% | 74% | 79% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 17% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 24% | 19% |
| What stands out | Groves | TX |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 7.6% | 5.7% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 7.5% | 6.1% |
| More smokers | 15.2% | 12.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Groves faces a high natural-hazard risk, led by hurricanes
1,325 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 104 properties have flooded more than once.
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 74% of U.S. communities. Since 1979, 1,325 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Groves.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In Groves, expect mild winters and hot summers
January nights average 43.2°, milder than in 96% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 91.3°.
Groves has warm winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. The July high in Groves is 91°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Groves has set aside 0.8% of its land for conservation
0.4 miles of trail in 3 parks and preserves.
| Groves | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 0.8% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. John Spikes Memorial Park | 0.4 mi | 5 |
| 2. Hoffpuair Field | — | 4 |
| 3. Memorial Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Groves
Colleges nearby
4 within 15 miles of the center of Groves
About 3 of every 100 Groves residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
Famous people from Groves
3 notable people were born in Groves.
About Groves
City in Texas, United States
Groves is a city in Jefferson County, Texas, United States. The population was 17,335 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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- Area
- 5.2 sq mi
- Elevation
- 10 ft
- ZIP code
- 77619
- Area code
- 409
Groves’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Groves.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Groves | #467 | D | C+ | C+ | C− | C |
| Port Neches | #216 | C+ | C | B− | B | B+ |
| Port Arthur | #632 | D− | B | D | D | D− |
Questions about Groves
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Groves, TX a good place to live?
Groves grades D overall, better than 12% of U.S. towns and #467 of 640 in Texas. It grades C for health, C+ for safety and C− for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Groves, TX expensive?
That is 2.9 years of the area's median household income ($64,659 across the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.
What is Groves, TX known for?
3 notable people were born here, including Mary Karr and Greg Davis.