Riverdale, Maryland.
Typical home $458,746 (-2.6% in a year), asking rent $2,595 (+2.1%). Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,094 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $12,207 -3%
- $470,953$458,746 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,117 +6%
- $433,629$458,746 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$2,408
- Maryland$2,230
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 62 years.
Typical home values in Riverdale, MD fell 2.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Riverdale, MD rose 2.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Riverdale runs $689/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $888 in Jun 2025.
That is $3,284 a month against $2,595 rent: a $2,363 mortgage payment, plus $429 property tax and $492 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$3,284
- Renting$2,595
- Mortgage only$2,363
Property tax · $429/mo 1.12% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Prince Georges County, MD
Insurance & upkeep · $492/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, Prince George's County, Maryland
The Census does not count Riverdale on its own, so the figures here are Prince George's County's. Half the county's households earn more than $101,798 a year and half less; 11% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 62% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Prince George's County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Prince George's County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 town in Prince George's County, Maryland, in the mid-Atlantic region. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values are high by national standards. Winters are cold, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Across Prince George's County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in government, and in the building trades. Unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, though the number of jobs slipped slightly in the most recent year. Household incomes across the county are well above the national middle, and many adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. The Smithsonian Institution, a museum, is a short drive away and is one of the best known places in the region. The National Mall, a park, and the Lincoln Memorial, a protected area, are also a short drive away. Together they make a full day for visitors and residents alike.
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- 347,744households
- 38.5median age
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What people in Prince George's County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Prince George's County had 328,137 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 10 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Natl Arboretum Dc weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Prince George's County
- Prince George's County Public SchoolsSchool district18,180FTE
- University of Maryland-College ParkUniversity or college10,690
- University of Maryland Global CampusUniversity or college5,424
- The Bozzuto Group CorporateAgencies, real estate5,024
- U.s. Census BureauFederal government · Department of Commerce3,238
- MGM Resorts InternationalHotels, casino3,002
- Contemporary Services2,434
- Internal Revenue ServiceFederal government · Department of the Treasury2,340
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 484 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 86,514 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Prince George's County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Prince George's County and the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 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$458,746
- 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.
- Riverdale12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
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.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.