CrimeMetric

Crime in Riverton, Wyoming

Major crime in Riverton is 2.1 times the U.S. rate per resident: 3.0 times for persons crimes and 1.9 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.1% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
209
2.1 times the U.S. rate
3.2 times the Wyoming rate
down 8.1% in a year
Persons crimes
300
3.0 times the U.S. rate
5.0 times the Wyoming rate
down 3.6% in a year
Property crimes
189
1.9 times the U.S. rate
2.8 times the Wyoming rate
down 9.5% in a year
Social disorder
271
2.7 times the U.S. rate
2.5 times the Wyoming rate
down 5.8% 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

Simple assault and aggravated assault stand out most, at about 3.6 times 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 165 and 294; the typical (median) resident's is 188.

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. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–10018.5%
  • 100–20032.1%
  • 200–40042.8%
  • 400+6.7%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest in the daytime

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm238
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am182
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm233
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am163
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.1% in a year; across Wyoming it fell 9.4%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.1%WY -9.4%-10.3%WY -13.0%
Persons crimes-3.6%WY -1.9%+0.2%WY +0.1%
Property crimes-9.5%WY -10.8%-14.0%WY -15.5%
Social disorder-5.8%WY -5.1%-6.3%WY -7.8%

Change in expected crimes, with Wyoming 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 10,000 to 25,000 residents

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

Riverton, WY10,386209
Bogalusa, LA10,408206
Live Oak, CA10,40776
Mentone, CA10,39469
Wabash, IN10,36857

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

Nearby places

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

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Lander (23 mi), is 75% below Riverton's rate.

Riverton209
Casper105 mi126
Rawlins104 mi71
Powell121 mi65
Rock Springs108 mi58
Lander23 mi52
Mills102 mi50
Worland72 mi46
Cody108 mi40

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 95 a year), aggravated assault (about 84 a year) and other larceny (about 67 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 3.6 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. Riverton's figures add up its 10 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.
  • 61.4% 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: 10,386. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100