CrimeMetric

Crime in Riviera Beach, Maryland

Major crime in Riviera Beach is 25% above the U.S. rate per resident: 2.0 times for persons crimes and 8% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.2% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
125
25% above the U.S. rate
8% above the Maryland rate
down 11.2% in a year
Persons crimes
204
2.0 times the U.S. rate
1.9 times the Maryland rate
down 10.1% in a year
Property crimes
108
8% above the U.S. rate
9% below the Maryland rate
down 11.6% in a year
Social disorder
314
3.1 times the U.S. rate
3.5 times the Maryland rate
down 6.9% 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

Robbery stands out most, at 6.2 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Riviera Beach 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 Riviera Beach

The middle half of Riviera Beach residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 45 and 106; the typical (median) resident's is 105. The citywide figure (125) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Riviera Beach, 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.
  • 0–5040.3%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–20038.4%
  • 200–40021.4%
  • 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 weeknights

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm122
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am132
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm120
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am125
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 11.2% in a year; across Maryland it fell 10.0%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-11.2%MD -10.0%-12.7%MD -12.7%
Persons crimes-10.1%MD -9.9%-10.8%MD -5.4%
Property crimes-11.6%MD -10.0%-13.5%MD -14.1%
Social disorder-6.9%MD -7.6%-5.0%MD -6.6%

Change in expected crimes, with Maryland 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

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

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

Riviera Beach, MD12,180125
Plano, IL12,19228
Piedmont, OK12,16920

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

Nearby places

Riviera Beach 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, Pasadena (2 mi), is 24% below Riviera Beach's rate.

Dundalk7 mi179
Edgemere6 mi149
Ferndale6 mi134
Riviera Beach125
Pasadena2 mi96

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

Questions about crime in Riviera Beach

What are the most common crimes in Riviera Beach?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 82 a year), aggravated assault (about 42 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 38 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 6.2 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. Riviera Beach's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Riviera Beach has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 87.5% 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: 12,180. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Riviera Beach, Maryland." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/md/riviera-beach

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100