RiverviewDE
2,596 residents make their home in this town in Delaware.
Is Riverview a good place to live?
The picture is mixed. Its weakest is walkability. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 94% of U.S. towns. At about $320K, a typical home costs 4.3 years of the Dover metro’s $74K median household income. Incomes are where it shines: the median household earns $93K. All told, that adds up to a C+ overall and a rank of 21st of 37 in Delaware. On that grade it does better than two fifths of U.S. towns. Riverview has 2 places on the National Register.
Figures: incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · home values, Zillow · National Register of Historic Places.
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.
How TownRatings grades towns →
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.
Few of Riverview’s working residents work in town
Riverview has 50 jobs for its 975 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Just 1% of Riverview’s working residents have a job in town. The town’s typical journey to work is 32 minutes, above both Delaware’s towns (25 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). Jobs based in Riverview grew to 50 in 2023, 20 more than in 2013. For half of commuters, work is under 12 miles away.
| 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
Riverview has a low natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
Riverview’s risk rating from FEMA comes in at 22 of 100. 37% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by cold waves at 25%. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 78% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Expect four seasons and pleasant summers in Riverview
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 three in five 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.
Just over one in ten adults worry about having enough food in Riverview, where Delaware’s towns sit at 14% and U.S. towns at 14%. Riverview: just over two in five adults have obesity. Among adults here, 13% binge drink and 83% had a checkup this year.
| 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 live in a home they own in Riverview than in most of Delaware or the rest of the country
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.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- 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+.