RiverviewDE
A town of 2,596.
Is Riverview a good place to live?
Riverview is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C+ overall, 21st among Delaware's 37 graded towns, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $93K. It also does better than most on schools: its public schools beat 62% of Delaware towns on state tests and graduation. A typical home there costs about $320K, 4.3 years of the Dover metro’s $74K median household income. Riverview’s median age is 54.4 years, where Delaware’s towns sit at 40 years and U.S. towns at 40.5 years. Only 1 of Delaware’s 54 towns score lower on walkability. Riverview has 2 places on the National Register.
What makes Riverview stand out
Where Riverview beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Riverview for work
Where Riverview’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Riverview grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Delaware), ordered by how far Riverview is from typical.
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Moving to Riverview: who provides what
Riverview is unincorporated, so Kent 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 Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Riverview.
Riverview sends most of its workers to Dover and beyond, but it trails even towns with similar incomes on health.
Most working residents commute out of Riverview
Riverview has 50 jobs for its 975 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave Riverview for work: only 1% work in town. Riverview’s average trip to work is 32 minutes. Jobs based in Riverview grew to 50 in 2023, 20 more than in 2013.
| Riverview | Delaware towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 32 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.3% | 5.2% | 8% |
| Median household income | $93,000 | $80,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Low risk in Riverview, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 78% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Riverview
Riverview has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 27° and about 13 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Residents of Riverview are less healthy than 60% of U.S. towns
Against the 9,562 U.S. towns with household incomes like Riverview’s, it is less healthy than 78%, so it trails even them.
Riverview beats the Delaware average on 3 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 0. 42% of adults have obesity in Riverview.
| Riverview | Delaware towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 35% | 35% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 15% | 16% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 83% | 81% | 79% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 37% | 35% |
| What stands out | Riverview | DE |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 8.3% | 12.7% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 11.7% | 13.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
A larger share of households own their home in Riverview than in most of Delaware or the rest of the country
100% of Riverview households own their home.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Riverview
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Riverview
About 7 of every 100 Riverview residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Delaware.
About Riverview
Census-designated place in Delaware, United States
Riverview is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kent County, Delaware, United States. It is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, Riverview had a population of 2,458.
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- Area
- 3.7 sq mi
- Elevation
- 30 ft
- Area code
- 302
Questions about Riverview
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Riverview, DE a good place to live?
Riverview grades C+ overall, better than 40% of U.S. towns and #21 of 37 in Delaware. It grades C+ for health and B for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Riverview, DE expensive?
The typical home is worth about $320,000, 21% below the Delaware typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.