Riva, Maryland.
Typical home $655,824 (+1.0% in a year). Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,610 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,294 +1%
- $649,530$655,824 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,550 +12%
- $584,273$655,824 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Riva$3,442
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Riva, MD rose 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Riva, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Riva, in Anne Arundel County, had 4,257 people in the 2020 census. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Anne Arundel County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Riva is a community in Anne Arundel County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own, and very few households fall below the poverty line. Residents tend to be somewhat older than the typical American, and a four-year degree is common among adults. Homes here are valued well above what is typical nationally, and the winters are cool, with January the coldest month, while July brings hot summer days.
Work. Many residents work in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, or in banks, insurance and property. Across Anne Arundel County, the largest workplaces include Anne Arundel County Public Schools, Anne Arundel Medical Center and Northrop Grumman Systems. The commute is on the long side, and a good number of people work from home, while unemployment across the county has eased over the past year and jobs have grown.
Things to do. Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium is a stadium a short drive away. Washington's museums and monuments lie a longer drive away, including the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum of Natural History, both museums, and the National Mall, a park that stretches past the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
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- 1,664households
- 51%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 25%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Anne Arundel County had 293,059 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 71°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Annapolis Police Brks weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Anne Arundel County
- Anne Arundel County Public SchoolsSchool district11,336FTE
- Northrop Grumman SystemsSearch detection navigation guidance aeronautical and nautical system and instrument manufacturing6,206
- Southwest AirlinesScheduled passenger air transportation5,460
- Anne Arundel Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,463FTE
- Keller North AmericaFoundation, building, poured concrete, contractors2,462
- Baltimore Washington Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,193FTE
- Northrop Grumman SystemsSearch detection navigation guidance aeronautical and nautical system and instrument manufacturing2,091
- Anne Arundel Community CollegeTwo-year college1,717
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 405 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 72,512 people in all across the county; Riva has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Riva’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Anne Arundel County and the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro.
Riva home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Riva$655,824
- Maryland$424,890
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Riva8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Riva address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Riva — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.