Riverdale, Nebraska.
Typical home $303,371 (+12.2% in a year). Kearney, NE metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$856 (+116%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $32,925 +12%
- $270,445$303,371 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,149 +31%
- $231,222$303,371 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$1,592
- Nebraska$1,461
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Riverdale, NE rose 12.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Riverdale, Buffalo County, Nebraska
Riverdale is a village of 247 people in Buffalo County. Half its households earn more than $85,227 a year and half less, against $75,911 across Buffalo County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Buffalo County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Buffalo County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 village in Buffalo County, Nebraska, where almost every home is lived in by its owners. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July; snow falls through the colder months, and the year brings a fair amount of moisture overall.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Buffalo County, some of the largest workplaces are Baldwin Filters, the University of Nebraska at Kearney and Kearney Public Schools. Unemployment across the county is low and little changed from a year earlier, the commute is short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Rainwater Basin, a protected area, and the Museum of Nebraska Art are both a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Fort Kearny, a historic fort, and to Pioneer Village, a museum.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Buffalo County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Buffalo County had 28,130 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 63°. About 22 inches of snow and 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kearney Northeast weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Buffalo County
- Baldwin FiltersOther motor vehicle parts manufacturing1,211
- University of Nebraska at KearneyUniversity or college939
- Kearney Public SchoolsSchool district782FTE
- The BuckleClothing stores, family695
- CHI Health Good SamaritanGeneral hospital677FTE
- AFGAnimal fats produced in slaughtering plants634
- Kearney Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital570FTE
- LandMark ImplementAgricultural implements merchant wholesalers527
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 50 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,871 people in all across the county; Riverdale has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Buffalo County and the Kearney, NE 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$303,371
- Nebraska$278,299
- 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.