Rio VerdeAZ
A town of 2,261.
Is Rio Verde a good place to live?
The best of Rio Verde’s subject grades is an A− for schools; the weakest is a D for hazard risk. 25% of the land in Rio Verde is conserved, against 14% in Arizona’s towns and 4.3% across U.S. towns. Rio Verde has 1 place on the National Register. Rio Verde has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Rio Verde stand out
Where Rio Verde beats most towns.
Rio Verde has grown 22% from 2010 to 2020
1,811 counted in 2010 and 2,210 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Rio Verde grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Arizona), ordered by how far Rio Verde is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Rio Verde: who provides what
Rio Verde is unincorporated, so Maricopa County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Rio Verde.
Rio Verde stands out in Arizona and nationally: a larger share of its households are owner-occupiers
On the market in Rio Verde: a median 177 days to sell. Homes locally are typically worth about $826,000, up 1.8% in a year, 98% above the Arizona typical home.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Natural hazards: very high risk in Rio Verde, mostly inland flooding
FEMA puts three quarters of Rio Verde’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 16% to wildfires. Compared with just over four fifths of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage locally is higher.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Rio Verde earns a B for the outdoors
2.9 miles of trail wind through 1 park or preserve. In Rio Verde, the concentration of trails is 0.7 miles per square mile, where Arizona’s towns sit at 1.1 and U.S. towns at 0.4. The town has one park or preserve, 6 acres in all.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. McDowell Mountain Regional Park | — | 6 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Most of Rio Verde’s workers head elsewhere: there are 0.4 jobs for each of them
The top destinations are Phoenix (30%), Scottsdale (23%) and Tempe (6%). For most workers, Rio Verde is a place to come home to: only 3% work in town. Employers in Rio Verde shed 78 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 180. The town’s typical household income stands at $132,000.
| Rio Verde | Arizona towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $132,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 6.3% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.1% | 10% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
A smaller share of adults binge drink in Rio Verde than in most of Arizona or the rest of the country
Only 4 of the 141 Arizona towns we compare have a higher share of adults who had a checkup this year than Rio Verde. Among adults locally, 27% sleep under 7 hours. Also worth knowing: the town does better than the Arizona average on 19 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 8.
| Rio Verde | Arizona towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 8.5% | 16% | 17% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 6.8% | 14% | 16% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 51% | 36% | 35% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 88% | 75% | 79% |
| What stands out | Rio Verde | AZ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 3.1% | 12% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 1.9% | 7.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 22.1% | 8.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
In Rio Verde, expect mild winters and hot summers
Its typical July afternoon high stands at 105°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
State Farm Stadium and 55 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Rio Verde. Close and well known come first.
Big draw36 mi Stadium & arenaState Farm Stadium
30 mi Stadium & arenaMortgage Matchup Center
30 mi Stadium & arenaChase Field
26 mi Stadium & arenaMountain America Stadium
36 mi Stadium & arenaDesert Diamond Arena
25 mi Stadium & arenaMullett ArenaPhoto credits
State Farm Stadium: Taken by en:Flickr user MCSixth, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Mortgage Matchup Center: Troutfarm27, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Chase Field: U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Tyler J. Bolken, Public domain · Mountain America Stadium: Clintus McGintus, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Desert Diamond Arena: Unknown, CC BY 2.0 · Mullett Arena: Kyvuh, CC0
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Everything we know about Rio Verde
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Rio Verde; the nearest are
About 0 of every 100 Rio Verde residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Arizona.
97% of working residents leave Rio Verde for work
Where Rio Verde’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Questions about Rio Verde
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Rio Verde, AZ expensive?
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.