CrimeMetric

Crime in Riverside, Illinois

Major crime in Riverside is 44% below the U.S. rate per resident: 79% lower for persons crimes and 36% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.6% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
56
44% below the U.S. rate
40% below the Illinois rate
down 9.6% in a year
Persons crimes
21
79% below the U.S. rate
69% below the Illinois rate
down 8.7% in a year
Property crimes
64
36% below the U.S. rate
35% below the Illinois rate
down 9.6% in a year
Social disorder
107
7% above the U.S. rate
about the Illinois rate
down 7.5% 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

Vandalism stands out most, at 1.7 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Riverside 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 Riverside

The middle half of Riverside residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 36 and 72; the typical (median) resident's is 47. The citywide figure (56) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Riverside, 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.
  • 0–5066.4%
  • 50–10017.2%
  • 100–20016.4%
  • 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 6pm66
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am47
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm54
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am49
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 9.6% in a year; across Illinois it fell 9.6%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-9.6%IL -9.6%-18.0%IL -14.2%
Persons crimes-8.7%IL -14.4%-7.7%IL -6.8%
Property crimes-9.6%IL -8.9%-18.8%IL -15.4%
Social disorder-7.5%IL -12.0%-13.1%IL -8.2%

Change in expected crimes, with Illinois 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

Riverside against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

1,214 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Riverside; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Audubon, NJ8,883240
Clinton, SC8,860186
Maize, KS8,85962
Riverside, IL8,87256

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

Nearby places

Riverside has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Lyons (1 mi), is 30% below Riverside's rate.

Berwyn2 mi97
Broadview3 mi87
Riverside56
Stickney2 mi40
Lyons1 mi40

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

Questions about crime in Riverside

What are the most common crimes in Riverside?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 46 a year), theft from vehicle (about 14 a year) and shoplifting (about 12 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 1.7 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. Riverside's figures add up its 9 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Riverside 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: 8,872. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Riverside, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/riverside

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100