Riverdale draws 7,316 commuters a day, with 1.8 jobs for every working resident
7,562 jobs are based in Riverdale; 4,206 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Riverdale B; getting around on foot earns it B+. Only 6% work in Riverdale itself; outside it, Ogden draws the most (25%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Riverdale, in a few figures
Young people hold many of the jobs here
42% of the jobs based in Riverdale are held by workers 29 or younger, against 30% of Riverdale’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
A lot of Riverdale works one town over
34% of working residents work in a town that borders Riverdale: Ogden (25%), Roy (4%) and South Ogden (3%). Next door ↓
Riverdale is where the jobs are
Riverdale has 7,562 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
The quickest commute around
Riverdale’s 18-minute average trip is shorter than in any town next door, where it runs from 21 to 25 minutes. Next door ↓
Most Riverdale residents work close to home
63% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. Only 5% work more than 50 miles away. How far ↓
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.
Where Riverdale’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Riverdale is better than 63% of U.S. towns, #86 of 119 in Utah. Job access by car holds Riverdale’s grade up (ahead of 77% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($67,323, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Riverdale could be anywhere from C+ to A.
The kinds of work in Riverdale
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Riverdale, 2013 → 2023: 5,865 → 7,562. 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 Riverdale’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Riverdale fills up on a workday
On a workday 3,960 residents head out to work and 246 work right here.
About 13,000 people are in Riverdale on a workday afternoon, 36% more 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.
Miles to work from Riverdale
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.
Who travels to work in Riverdale, and from where
Where Riverdale clocks in
25% of workers
10% 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.
The trip to work from Riverdale: about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Riverdale workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,482 commuters (the 19% who work from home are left out). Across Utah: 82% 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.
Getting around Riverdale: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Riverdale is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns, #57 of 119 in Utah. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.0% across Utah.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,289 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 58% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 15% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 4.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 83% 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). 2.4% of Riverdale households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Riverdale’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Riverdale is 1,351st of 2,886 U.S. towns of 6,400 to 12,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
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| 92 | South Weber UT | 8,218 | $139K | 2.2% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 168 | Plain City UT | 9,256 | $133K | 2.6% | 1.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 206 | Stansbury Park UT | 11,242 | $127K | 2.5% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,349 | Logan Township PA | 12,147 | $73K | 10.6% | 2.0% | 11% | B |
| 1,350 | Parkwood WA | 6,873 | $89K | 7.6% | 3.7% | 2% | B |
| 1,351 | Riverdale UT | 9,206 | $67K | 11.1% | 2.6% | 6% | B |
| 1,352 | Buena Vista Township NJ | 7,175 | $88K | 5.8% | 6.1% | 7% | B |
| 1,353 | Huron Township OH | 10,438 | $88K | 4.4% | 5.9% | 18% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,886 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Riverdale, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
Work next door: 34% of Riverdale’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Riverdale workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverdale | – | B | B+ | 18 min | $67,323 |
| Roy | 4% | A | A− | 25 min | $91,282 |
| Washington Terrace | 2% | A− | B+ | 21 min | $80,119 |
| Ogden | 25% | B− | A | 23 min | $72,575 |
| South Ogden | 3% | B+ | A | 24 min | $80,130 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Ogden. Darker towns draw more of Riverdale’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Riverdale: questions
What is the median household income in Riverdale?
$67,323 (±$10,546) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Riverdale?
11.1%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Riverdale?
18 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Riverdale work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ogden (25%, 4 mi), Salt Lake City (10%, 28 mi), Layton (6%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Riverdale walkable?
Riverdale is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 10.9 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Riverdale without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 15% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Riverdale, from the people who make the trip.
More of Riverdale
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.