Canyon Crest is a neighborhood of 20,400 residents in Riverside, about 3 miles southeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Canyon Crest in Riverside safe?
Crime in Canyon Crest is moderate, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of B+. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 61% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Canyon Crest. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, A- against B. Riverside as a whole grades B-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Canyon Crest run from A to B-, so check the map below.
B+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 769 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
39% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Canyon Crest as a whole, and 61% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Canyon Crest scores 769.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Canyon Crest, Riverside, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Canyon Crest in Riverside, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Canyon Crest
Burglaries happen at stores and businesses far more often than nationally. In Riverside as a whole, 52% of reported burglaries happen at stores and businesses, against 28% nationally.
How Canyon Crest compares within Riverside
Every part of Canyon Crest where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Canyon Crest run from A to B-; 30% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Canyon Crest has less crime than 22 of the 26 neighborhoods in Riverside. It covers much of the Canyon Crest area.
Is crime going up in Riverside?
Reported crime in Riverside as a whole has held about steady since 2019: violent crime is up 10% and property crime down 6%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.3 to 5.8 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 30 to 28 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 18%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
RiversideUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Riverside. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Riverside
Violent, US
Property, Riverside
Property, US
2016
+0%
+4%
+18%
+15%
2017
-4%
+4%
+4%
+12%
2018
-4%
+0%
+5%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-11%
+4%
+6%
-8%
2021
+4%
+6%
+14%
-10%
2022
-3%
+5%
+9%
-6%
2023
+4%
+2%
+15%
-7%
2024
+10%
-4%
-6%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Canyon Crest
CrimeGrade™ estimates Canyon Crest has about 29 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 22% less than the US as a whole and 45% less than Riverside as a whole.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft makes up about 40% of crime reported in Canyon Crest. Assault is less common but costs more, because each one does more harm.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when crime happens in Riverside
The Riverside Police Department polices Canyon Crest; these figures cover Riverside as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 44% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (52%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (32%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (44%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Stores and businesses (25%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (50%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Homes (38%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times; they are over one in five for burglary, car theft, theft from cars, vandalism.
How Canyon Crest compares with nearby neighborhoods
Canyon Crest has less crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Two things set Canyon Crest apart: it has a Walk Grade of D- (8 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 4.0 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places like that tend to report less theft and assault, yet theft runs higher here than that would suggest.
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 94% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D- (8 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 95% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.4.0 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 86% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.14 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 81% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.24% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 76% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Canyon Crest
Crime costs Canyon Crest about $737 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 39% less than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $15 million a year, or $741 per resident.
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Canyon Crest means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Canyon Crest, Riverside, CA average a SchoolGrade of C+: 34% of students test proficient, against 30% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Canyon Crest on SchoolGrade
