Riverside police reported 603 non-residential burglaries in 2025 — 68.2% of all burglaries in the city, and the city’s lowest non-residential count since 2014. The year’s 884 total burglary offenses were the fewest in the agency’s file, which reaches back to 1985. 7.4% of the year’s burglaries were reported cleared. Every figure on this page comes from the California Department of Justice’s Crimes & Clearances collection, as reported by the Riverside Police Department, and every one can be reproduced from the public file.
By Jacob Ross, Security Specialist · Guardian Integrated Security · CA PPO #121089 · Last updated August 29, 2026
Nothing here is estimated, modeled or borrowed from another city’s data. Counts come from one primary source — the CA DOJ’s statewide Crimes & Clearances file, filtered to the Riverside Police Department, the city’s own agency, not the county sheriff. Where a percentage is calculated rather than stated by the source, its inputs are shown so you can check the arithmetic.
Riverside Commercial Burglary: The Key Numbers
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- Riverside PD reported 603 non-residential burglaries in 2025, against 281 residential burglaries — 884 burglary offenses in total.
- Non-residential burglaries were 68.2% of all Riverside burglary in 2025 (603 of 884) — more than two non-residential break-ins for every residential one.
- Non-residential burglary is down 56.7% from its 2023 peak — 1,392 offenses in 2023, 836 in 2024, 603 in 2025.
- The 884 total burglary offenses of 2025 are the lowest annual count in the agency’s rows of the DOJ file, which reach back to 1985.
- 7.4% of Riverside burglaries were reported cleared in 2025 — 65 of 884.
- 73.4% of all Riverside burglaries in 2025 involved forcible entry — 649 of 884.
- Riverside PD’s 603 non-residential burglaries were 0.9% of the 68,153 reported by California law-enforcement agencies statewide in 2025 (CA DOJ Crimes & Clearances).
603 Non-Residential Burglaries in 2025
The state’s data splits burglary by premise into residential and non-residential. Non-residential is the category that covers businesses — stores, offices, warehouses, industrial buildings — along with some non-commercial structures such as schools and places of worship. It is the closest thing in California’s published data to a Riverside commercial burglary count, and the premise coding is the Riverside Police Department’s own.
- Total burglary offenses reported in 2025: 884.
- Non-residential: 603 — 68.2% of the total.
- Residential: 281 — 31.8% of the total.
The two premise categories sum exactly to the total, with no undesignated remainder — a reconciliation this page re-checked against the source file rather than assumed. More than two-thirds of Riverside’s burglary problem lands on premises that are not homes, and the share has run as high as 75.9% in recent years.
Non-Residential Burglary Is Down 56.7% From Its 2023 Peak
Across the five most recent complete years in the state’s file, Riverside’s reported non-residential burglary count spiked to 1,392 in 2023 — the agency’s highest count in the file since 1995 — and has fallen hard in the two years since: 836 in 2024 and 603 in 2025, a 56.7% decline from the peak. All burglary combined fell 51.8% over the same two years, and the 2025 total of 884 is the lowest annual burglary count in the agency’s rows of the file, which reach back to 1985.
| Year | All burglary | Residential | Non-residential | Non-residential share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1,579 | 432 | 1,147 | 72.6% |
| 2022 | 1,563 | 485 | 1,078 | 69.0% |
| 2023 | 1,833 | 441 | 1,392 | 75.9% |
| 2024 | 1,268 | 432 | 836 | 65.9% |
| 2025 | 884 | 281 | 603 | 68.2% |
Source: CA DOJ Crimes & Clearances, Riverside Police Department rows. The decline is real and worth stating plainly. So is what it does not change: in every one of those five years, non-residential premises took the clear majority of Riverside’s burglaries — never less than 65.9% of the total, and more than seven in ten in 2021 and 2023.
36.0% of Riverside’s 2025 Non-Residential Burglaries Carry No Time-of-Day Code
The state’s file records whether each non-residential burglary was coded as a night-time or daytime offense — the coding is the reporting department’s own. Riverside is one of the agencies that reports a substantial block of offenses with no time designation at all: between 28.3% and 36.0% of its non-residential burglaries in each of the past five years. This page therefore prints the raw counts and states shares only among the offenses that actually carry a time code.
| Year | Night | Day | No time code | Share with no code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 490 | 282 | 375 | 32.7% |
| 2022 | 541 | 232 | 305 | 28.3% |
| 2023 | 572 | 341 | 479 | 34.4% |
| 2024 | 328 | 226 | 282 | 33.7% |
| 2025 | 187 | 199 | 217 | 36.0% |
Among the offenses that do carry a time code, night outnumbered day in every year from 2021 through 2024 — 63.5%, 70.0%, 62.7% and 59.2% of coded non-residential burglaries respectively. In 2025 the coded split turned almost even, with day-coded offenses (199) edging night-coded ones (187) for the first time in the five years shown. With more than a third of the year’s offenses carrying no time code, the true 2025 split cannot be known from this file — which is exactly why the counts are printed instead of a headline percentage.
7.4% of Riverside Burglaries Were Reported Cleared in 2025
Clearances in this dataset are reported for burglary as a whole, not split by premise. Riverside’s reported clearance rate has stayed in a narrow band for five years — and it leaves more than nine in ten offenses without a reported clearance.
- 2025: 65 clearances against 884 offenses — 7.4%. The remaining 819 offenses (92.6%) had no clearance reported.
- 2024: 87 clearances against 1,268 offenses — 6.9%.
- 2023: 114 against 1,833 — 6.2%.
- 2022: 124 against 1,563 — 7.9%.
- 2021: 107 against 1,579 — 6.8%.
Two caveats belong next to these numbers. Clearance figures are point-in-time: cases still open when the department reported can be cleared later, so a year’s final picture can improve after the fact. And a year’s clearances are the clearances the department reported that year, which is not necessarily an arrest for that same year’s offenses.
Nearly Three in Four Riverside Burglaries Involve Forcible Entry
The dataset also splits burglary by method of entry, across all premises. Riverside’s split has stayed high for five years.
- 2025: 649 forcible-entry burglaries (73.4%) versus 235 unlawful entries without force (26.6%).
- The forcible-entry share held between 73.4% and 82.0% in every year from 2021 through 2025.
Roughly three out of four Riverside burglars defeat a physical barrier — a door, a window, a lock — rather than walking through one left open. Hardware alone is being beaten at that rate; what the data cannot show is how often an intruder was seen while it was happening.
What This Means for a Riverside Business
Three findings on this page sit together. Riverside’s burglary problem is more than two-thirds non-residential — 68.2% of offenses in 2025 hit premises that are not homes, and the share has not dropped below 65.9% in five years. Nearly three in four offenses involve forcible entry, which means locks and doors are being defeated, not bypassed. And 92.6% of the year’s offenses had no reported clearance, which means prevention and interruption are worth more than after-the-fact evidence.
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Sources
- California Department of Justice, Crimes & Clearances (with Arson), 1985–2025, OpenJustice open-data collection, July 2026 release (complete calendar years through 2025); Riverside Police Department rows. OpenJustice data portal. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
- City of Riverside, Crime Reports dataset, Riverside Open Data portal — incident-level records for roughly the last four years, downloadable as CSV and refreshed continuously; used only to corroborate the scale of the 2025 count in the Methodology, never mixed into the tables above. riversideca.gov open data. Accessed August 29, 2026.
- Riverside Police Department, Crime Statistics page — cited for where the department itself directs the public for crime data (the city open-data portal and the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer); no figure on this page is drawn from it. riversideca.gov/rpd. Accessed August 29, 2026.
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer, Riverside Police Department (ORI CA0331300), burglary offense counts 2024–2025 — used only as a cross-check, never mixed into the tables above. cde.ucr.cjis.gov. Accessed August 29, 2026.
Methodology
All crime counts on this page come from the California Department of Justice’s Crimes & Clearances (with Arson) collection, published on the DOJ’s OpenJustice open-data portal. The file spans 1985 through 2025 in complete calendar years; this page presents the five most recent (2021–2025), with two file-length superlatives (the 2025 low and the 2023 spike’s rank) checked against every year back to 1985. Figures were taken by filtering the statewide file to County = “Riverside County” and agency (NCIC code) = “Riverside” — the Riverside Police Department, the city’s own agency; the county sheriff appears in the same file as a separate agency and is not used anywhere on this page — and reading the burglary columns directly: total burglary, residential and non-residential premise counts, the night/day/no-code time coding of each premise category, method-of-entry counts, and reported clearances. The file was retrieved and all figures re-computed on August 29, 2026. Internal reconciliations were checked rather than assumed: for every year shown, residential plus non-residential equals total burglary, night plus day plus no-code equals each premise total, and forcible plus non-forcible entry equals total burglary. Percentages are calculated from the counts shown, to one decimal place. The one statewide figure (68,153 non-residential burglaries in 2025) is the sum of the same column across all reporting agencies in the same file.
Dataset landing page: OpenJustice — California Department of Justice open data.
The DOJ refreshes and revises this collection as agencies amend their submissions, so every figure here is point-in-time as of the August 29, 2026 retrieval and may differ slightly from a copy downloaded later; figures are re-checked at each monthly re-audit.
Three notes on how the numbers are made. First, the premise coding (residential versus non-residential), the night/day coding and the method-of-entry coding are the Riverside Police Department’s own, made when each offense is recorded and reported to the DOJ — this page applies no reclassification of its own, and “non-residential” includes some non-commercial structures. Second, Riverside reports a substantial block of burglaries with no time-of-day designation — 28.3% to 36.0% of non-residential offenses in the years shown — so this page prints time-of-day counts and states shares only among time-coded offenses, never for the full count. Third, clearances are point-in-time and reported for burglary as a whole: open cases may be cleared after the reporting year closes, and a year’s clearance count is not restricted to that year’s offenses. Two independent series exist for the same agency and are used here only as corroboration, never mixed into the tables: the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer reports 1,273 burglary offenses for this agency in 2024 and 884 in 2025, against the DOJ’s 1,268 and 884; and the City of Riverside’s own open-data Crime Reports extract held 894 burglary-coded case records for 2025 offenses at the August 29, 2026 pull — small differences that arise because the three compilations are built on different cycles and rules from the same department’s records.
