County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Riverside County, CA
At 2,418,185 residents, Riverside County is a very large county in California. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Riverside County, CA reported 41 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Riverside County, CA agencies reported 998 violent and 5,963 property offenses. That equals about 41 violent and 247 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
998 violent offenses
41/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Riverside County, CA
Position in the state cohort
Riverside County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable California counties
At 41.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Riverside County ranks 47 of 56 — above 9 of the 55 other California counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -68.2% against the cohort median of 129.8. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 14.3% of the 6,961 Part I offenses reported in Riverside County for 2024, against a median of 29.6% across comparable California counties — a gap of 15.2 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 39.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 41.3 in 2024 (+3.5%). The highest observed value was 48.5 in 2023 and the lowest 39.9 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a very large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · very large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
5,963
Burglary
1,124
Larceny-Theft
3,817
Motor Vehicle Theft
1,022
Arson
38
Violent Crime
998
Murder
15
Rape
74
Robbery
153
Aggravated Assault
756
Reporting Agency
Riverside County Sheriff's Office Summary Reporting (SRS)
Riverside County's crime figures on this page originate from Riverside County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Counties in California
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the California counties closest to Riverside County in population. Their populations run from 1,585,055 to 3,186,989, against 2,418,185 here. Or launch the
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.