Riverdale, IL has a F safety grade (5/100) with a violent crime rate of 709 per 100,000, 102% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Riverdale (10,009 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then IL and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Riverdale, IL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 102% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Riverdale, IL shows violent crime at 709.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,857.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 102% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 709.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Riverdale ranks 14 of 506 — above 492 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +611.7% against the cohort median of 99.7. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Riverdale's 709.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Harvey (706.0), Havana (754.0), Centralia (663.9), Granite City (617.8). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 19.9% of the 357 Part I offenses reported in Riverdale for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 8.7 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 51.4% of reported property offenses in Riverdale, against a cohort median of 70.3%. The remainder is burglary (48) and motor vehicle theft (91). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Riverdale's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 3.6 Census sq mi, Riverdale logged 80 property and 19.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Riverdale leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,693.
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Riverdale offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 286 | 2857.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 147 | 1468.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 91 | 909.2 |
| Burglary | 48 | 479.6 |
| Arson | 1 | 10 |
| Violent Crime | 71 | 709.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 43 | 429.6 |
| Robbery | 13 | 129.9 |
| Rape | 8 | 79.9 |
| Murder | 7 | 69.9 |
The chart omits 2021, 2022, 2023 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 2 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 13,025 | 667.9 | 2341.7 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 12,849 | - | - |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 10,195 | - | - |
| 2023 | Insufficient reporting | 10,090 | - | - |
| 2024 | Comparable | 10,009 | 709.4 | 2857.4 |
Riverdale Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Riverdale's 357 reported offenses (2-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Illinois cities closest to Riverdale in population. Their populations run from 9,734 to 10,352, against 10,009 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Riverdale sits at 709.4/100K violent (grade F); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Riverdale at 709.4/100K violent and 2,857.4/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
709.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,857.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Riverdale reported 71 violent crimes and 286 property crimes, for a total of 357 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Riverdale is larceny-theft, accounting for 41.2% of all reported crimes (147 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Riverdale figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Riverdale's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Riverdale, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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