CrimeMetric

Crime in Riverview, Michigan

Major crime in Riverview is 42% below the U.S. rate per resident: 36% lower for persons crimes and 43% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.6% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
58
42% below the U.S. rate
38% below the Michigan rate
down 7.6% in a year
Persons crimes
64
36% below the U.S. rate
52% below the Michigan rate
down 4.3% in a year
Property crimes
57
43% below the U.S. rate
33% below the Michigan rate
down 8.3% in a year
Social disorder
72
28% below the U.S. rate
27% below the Michigan rate
down 5.1% 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

Every crime type in Riverview is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Riverview 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 Riverview

The middle half of Riverview residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 41 and 60; the typical (median) resident's is 43. The citywide figure (58) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Riverview, 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.
  • 0–5067.5%
  • 50–10020.0%
  • 100–20012.5%
  • 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 6pm72
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am44
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm61
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am45
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.6% in a year; across Michigan it fell 6.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.6%MI -6.1%-16.5%MI -11.8%
Persons crimes-4.3%MI -1.8%-5.3%MI -1.3%
Property crimes-8.3%MI -7.5%-19.3%MI -15.5%
Social disorder-5.1%MI -2.9%-9.3%MI -5.4%

Change in expected crimes, with Michigan 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

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

1,319 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Riverview; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Scottdale, GA11,908282
Webster, TX11,917262
Reading, OH11,913129
Anderson, CA11,905115
Atchison, KS11,88969
Saks, AL11,89061
Riverview, MI11,90358

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

Nearby places

Riverview has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Southgate (2 mi), is 1.9 times Riverview's rate.

Taylor5 mi135
Southgate2 mi111
Woodhaven4 mi88
Riverview58
Wyandotte3 mi49
Gibraltar6 mi35
Trenton2 mi30

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

Questions about crime in Riverview

What are the most common crimes in Riverview?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 59 a year), aggravated assault (about 19 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 12 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: about 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. Riverview's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Riverview 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: 11,903. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Riverview, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/riverview

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100