CrimeMetric

Crime in Riverton, Utah

Major crime in Riverton is 56% below the U.S. rate per resident: 78% lower for persons crimes and 51% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 4.5% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
45
56% below the U.S. rate
48% below the Utah rate
down 4.5% in a year
Persons crimes
22
78% below the U.S. rate
69% below the Utah rate
up 2.5% in a year
Property crimes
49
51% below the U.S. rate
44% below the Utah rate
down 5.1% in a year
Social disorder
38
62% below the U.S. rate
72% below the Utah rate
about flat 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 Riverton is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Riverton 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 Riverton

The middle half of Riverton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 21 and 46; the typical (median) resident's is 29. The citywide figure (45) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Riverton, 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. Tap one to compare it. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5076.7%
  • 50–1007.6%
  • 100–20015.7%
  • 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 6pm53
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am37
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm45
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am35
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 4.5% in a year; across Utah it fell 9.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-4.5%UT -9.1%-10.0%UT -8.9%
Persons crimes+2.5%UT -3.4%+3.3%UT +4.1%
Property crimes-5.1%UT -10.1%-11.3%UT -11.3%
Social disorder-0.2%UT -5.1%-3.5%UT -3.8%

Change in expected crimes, with Utah 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

Riverton against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents

773 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Riverton; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:

Roswell, NM49,322177
Wauwatosa, WI48,838136
Mishawaka, IN48,854114
Glendora, CA49,303101
Dublin, OH49,27859
Lakewood, OH48,96458
Riverton, UT49,14945

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

Nearby places

Riverton has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, South Jordan (3 mi), is 37% above Riverton's rate.

Midvale8 mi284
White City7 mi132
Draper5 mi114
Sandy7 mi94
Bluffdale3 mi49
Riverton45
Herriman3 mi28

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

Questions about crime in Riverton

What are the most common crimes in Riverton?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 114 a year), other larceny (about 104 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 83 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 27% below 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. Riverton's figures add up its 21 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Riverton has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 24.0% 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: 49,149. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Riverton, Utah." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ut/riverton

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100