Riverside Sexual assault
Riverside · Sexual assault · updated 2026-11-12
In 2020, the latest complete year, Riverside police open data recorded 129 sexual assault incidents, 1.2% of all 10,322 incidents reported in the city that year and up 16.2% from 2019. That is about 39.8 per 100,000 residents, compared with 79.2 per 100,000 across the 26 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2020 data that list this crime type.
Sexual assault in Riverside by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 (partial year) | 16 | — | — |
| 2020 | 129 | 39.8 | up 16.2% |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 709 sexual assault incidents.
Neighborhoods with the most sexual assault (2020)
Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.
Questions
How many sexual assault incidents were reported in Riverside in 2020?
129, according to Riverside Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is sexual assault going up or down in Riverside?
Reported sexual assault was up 16.2% in 2020 compared with 2019, and down 7.9% compared with 2017 (falling over three years).
Where does this data come from?
Source: Riverside Police Department open data. TheCrimeMaps.com groups each published offense into a crime type; counts are police-reported incidents, not convictions, and some reports are reclassified or removed by the source later.
Other crime types in Riverside
- Riverside theft 4,678 in 2020
- Riverside theft from vehicle 2,699 in 2020
- Riverside burglary 1,552 in 2020
- Riverside assault 764 in 2020
- Riverside robbery 371 in 2020
- Riverside bike theft 109 in 2020
- Riverside homicide 20 in 2020