Riverdale is a medium-sized city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 14,586 people and 14 associated neighborhoods, Riverdale is the 77th largest community in Georgia.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 city of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Riverdale who work in office and administrative support (11.94%), sales jobs (11.69%), and food service (9.06%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.95% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. In Riverdale, a lot of people use the bus to get to work every day though Riverdale is a relatively small city. Those that ride the bus are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.The percentage of adults in Riverdale who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.26% of the adults in Riverdale have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Riverdale in 2022 was $30,569, which is middle income relative to Georgia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $122,276 for a family of four. However, Riverdale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Riverdale is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Riverdale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Riverdale residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by Asian. Riverdale also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.89% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Riverdale include Nigerian, African, Jamaican, Irish, and Senegalese. Foreign born people are also an important part of Riverdale's cultural character, accounting for 16.41% of the city’s population. The most common language spoken in Riverdale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
