Riverdale is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 3,477 people and just one neighborhood, Riverdale is the 583rd largest community in California.
Riverdale is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Riverdale is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Riverdale who work in farm management occupations (12.94%), office and administrative support (12.77%), and food service (9.08%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Riverdale work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
Riverdale is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Riverdale has a very low overall level of education: only 6.34% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Riverdale in 2022 was $18,737, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $74,948 for a family of four. However, Riverdale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Riverdale is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Riverdale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Riverdale, accounting for 67.32% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Riverdale residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Riverdale include Portuguese, European, English, German, and Other Arab.
In addition, Riverdale has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (26.08%).
The most common language spoken in Riverdale is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Arabic.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 94.8% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Portuguese and Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Portuguese ancestry and 77.4% have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Portuguese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Riverdale are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 55.0% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 25.7% of the working population is employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.0%), and 17.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 66.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English, Arabic and Portuguese.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Riverdale, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (77.4%). There are also a number of people of Portuguese ancestry (6.1%), and residents who report German roots (2.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (2.1%), along with some Arab ancestry residents (1.8%), among others. In addition, 37.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (6.3%) and 6.3% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.