Bonwell House · Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ, M.D. · CC BY-SA 4.0Riverview has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
50 jobs are based in Riverview for 975 working residents. The two grades for Riverview are B+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 6% of workers; Delaware has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Riverview stands out on work
Riverview is a place people come home to
There are 50 jobs based in Riverview, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Riverview has about 1,700 people in it, 36% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Riverview workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 32 minutes each way, against 26 across Delaware. Over a year that’s about 245 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 975 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Riverview
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Riverview is better than 67% of U.S. towns, #15 of 37 in Delaware. Household income holds Riverview’s grade up ($93,162, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 47% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Riverview could be anywhere from D to A+.
Who leaves Riverview for work, and who comes in
On a workday 962 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 37 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Riverview on a workday afternoon, 36% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Riverview’s commute takes about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Riverview workers work from home, vs 15% across Delaware. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,077 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across Delaware: 84% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
24% of working residents work in Dover
Where Riverview clocks in
24% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Riverview works in goods: 32% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Riverview, 2013 → 2023: 30 → 50. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Riverview’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Riverview
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of Riverview, work means a drive
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,151 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 53% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Riverview households have no vehicle (Delaware 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Riverview’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,399th of 5,083: where Riverview ranks among U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 452 | Townsend DE | 2,985 | $153K | 2.4% | 3.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 476 | Lincoln DE | 1,873 | $108K | 0.0% | 1.9% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 827 | Dover Base Housing DE | 2,962 | $82K | 2.2% | 12.4% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,397 | Washington Township IN | 2,916 | $69K | 6.3% | 2.2% | 7% | B+ |
| 1,398 | Nedrose Township ND | 2,204 | $124K | 0.7% | 9.7% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,399 | Riverview DE | 2,596 | $93K | 8.2% | 3.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,400 | Garfield TX | 1,926 | $73K | 9.6% | 13.6% | <1% | B+ |
| 1,401 | Waynesville OH | 2,890 | $79K | 12.4% | 2.6% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,083 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Riverview, the top three, the last and three more from Delaware.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Riverview: questions
What is the median household income in Riverview?
$93,162 (±$42,570) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $84,954 across Delaware and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Riverview?
8.2%, against 10.4% across Delaware and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Riverview?
32 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Delaware and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Riverview work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dover (24%, 9 mi), Milford (6%, 10 mi), Camden (4%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Riverview walkable?
Riverview is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Riverview without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Riverview, from the people who make the trip.
More of Riverview
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.