Riverdale, North Dakota.
Typical home $230,541 (+15.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$626 (+107%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $30,377 +15%
- $200,164$230,541 since Sep 2025
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$1,210
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Riverdale, ND rose 15.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Riverdale, McLean County, North Dakota
Riverdale is a city of 223 people in McLean County. Unemployment in McLean County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in McLean County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 very small city on the shore of Lake Sakakawea in McLean County, North Dakota. Residents are older than in most American towns, and few households live below the poverty line. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month, while July is the warmest and stays pleasantly mild.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, forestry and mining, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in the building trades. Across McLean County, the largest workplaces include Rainbow Energy Center, Garrison 51 Schools and Benedictine Living Community - Garrison. Unemployment across the county is low and has eased over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Lake Sakakawea, a large reservoir, lies in or beside town, and Fort Stevenson State Park, a protected area for the outdoors and local history, is a short drive away. The Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, an archaeological site, is also a short drive away. Fort Mandan, a fort tied to the early exploration of the region, is a longer drive away.
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- 4%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What people in McLean County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McLean County had 3,531 jobs in 2025, 3.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 20° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 58°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Riverdale weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McLean County
- Rainbow Energy CenterElectric power generation, fossil fuel220
- Garrison 51 SchoolsSchool district65FTE
- Washburn 4 SchoolsSchool district60FTE
- Benedictine Living Community - GarrisonSkilled nursing facilities56
- Harvestone Low Carbon PartnersEthyl alcohol, nonpotable, manufacturing53
- Wilton 1 SchoolsSchool district51FTE
- Underwood 8 SchoolsSchool district50FTE
- White Shield 85 SchoolsSchool district49FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 581 people in all across the county; Riverdale has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- HailVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
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, relatively high. 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 McLean County.
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$230,541
- North Dakota$290,657
- 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.
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.