Riverdale, Georgia.
Typical home $214,038 (-3.8% in a year), asking rent $1,585 (+2.0%). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$611 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,533 -4%
- $222,571$214,038 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,753 +14%
- $188,285$214,038 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.
- Riverdale$1,123
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Riverdale, GA fell 3.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Riverdale, GA rose 2.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Riverdale runs $77/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $338 in Nov 2021.
That is $1,508 a month against $1,585 rent: a $1,123 mortgage payment, plus $155 property tax and $229 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Riverdale
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,508
- Renting$1,585
- Mortgage only$1,123
Property tax · $155/mo 0.87% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Clayton County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $229/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Riverdale, Clayton County, Georgia
Riverdale is a city of 15,129 people in Clayton County. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Clayton County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in transport and warehouses, 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. Riverdale is a city in Clayton County, Georgia, where owners and renters share the homes about evenly. Typical rents are high next to what a typical home costs, and incomes in the county run below the Georgia norm for many families. Not many adults here hold a four-year degree, and a good number of households live below the poverty line. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers turn hot, and the year is a wet one.
Work. Many residents work in transport, warehouses and utilities, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants and hotels, or in shops. Walmart, Riverwoods Behavioral Health System and the Riverdale Center for Nursing and Healing are among the largest workplaces in Riverdale. The typical trip to work is a fairly long one, and some people work from home. Jobs across the county dipped slightly last year, and unemployment is a little lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. The Flint River is a short drive away and is the closest outdoor spot on the list. A longer drive brings you to Atlanta's big attractions, among them the Georgia Aquarium, Zoo Atlanta and the Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The High Museum of Art is also a longer drive away, for a day of museum-going.
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- 5,747households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clayton County had 129,649 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jonesboro weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Riverdale
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters413
- Riverwoods Behavioral Health SystemPsychiatric hospital346FTE
- Riverdale Center for Nursing and HealingSkilled nursing facilities208
- State Specialty Schools I- Dubois Integrity AcademySchool district154FTE
- Kroger Atlanta KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores112
- Krispy Kreme DoughnutBakeries with baking from flour on the premises, retailing not for immediate consumption52
- Church StreetMail and parcel delivery48
- Advance Auto PartsAutomotive parts29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,084 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Riverdale’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 Clayton County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Riverdale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Riverdale$214,038
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Riverdale listings, and the typical home goes pending in 31 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Riverdale29.08%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Riverdale31
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Riverdale285
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Riverdale68
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Riverdale$215,956
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Riverdale96.38%
Zip codes with a Riverdale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Riverdale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Riverdale
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30274 | Riverdale | 34,081 | $1,406 | $198,951 |
| 30296 | Riverdale | 27,045 | $1,821 | $229,279 |