Riverview, MO has a F safety grade (5/100) with a violent crime rate of 1865 per 100,000, 430% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Riverview's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,306). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to MO and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Riverview, MO is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 430% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Riverview, MO shows violent crime at 1,864.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,818.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 430% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 39.8% of the 108 Part I offenses reported in Riverview for 2024, against a median of 13.4% across comparable Missouri cities — a gap of 26.4 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 1864.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Riverview ranks 2 of 272 — above 270 of the 271 other Missouri cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +911.6% against the cohort median of 184.3. 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 Riverview's 1864.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pagedale (1806.5), Vinita Park (1718.8), Country Club Hills (1621.1), Kansas City (1547.1). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 44.6% of reported property offenses in Riverview, against a cohort median of 78.6%. The remainder is burglary (7) and motor vehicle theft (29). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1595.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1864.7 in 2024 (+16.9%). The highest observed value was 2806.1 in 2022 and the lowest 1032.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Riverview'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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 0.8 Census sq mi, Riverview logged 78.3 property and 51.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Riverview's 7 active offense types stay diversified (mix index 2,354); aggravated assault still leads at 29%.
Violent offenses are 40% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
Riverview offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.8 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 | 65 | 2818.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 29 | 1257.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 29 | 1257.6 |
| Burglary | 7 | 303.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 43 | 1864.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 31 | 1344.3 |
| Murder | 5 | 216.8 |
| Robbery | 5 | 216.8 |
| Rape | 2 | 86.7 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,820 | 1595.7 | 4184.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,810 | 1032 | 2313.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,352 | 2806.1 | 3869 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,322 | 1636.5 | 3316.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,306 | 1864.7 | 2818.7 |
Riverview Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Riverview's 108 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
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 Missouri cities closest to Riverview in population. Their populations run from 2,221 to 2,410, against 2,306 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Riverview sits at 1,864.7/100K violent (grade F); the Missouri cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Riverview reported 43 violent crimes and 65 property crimes, for a total of 108 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Riverview's violent crime rate increased by 13.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 15%.
The most common crime type in Riverview is aggravated assault, accounting for 28.7% of all reported crimes (31 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Riverview's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Riverview's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Riverview, MO rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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