Riviera Beach, Maryland.
A community in Anne Arundel County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Anne Arundel County’s.
Living in Riviera Beach, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Riviera Beach, in Anne Arundel County, had 12,384 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $112,672 a year and half less, against $124,911 across Anne Arundel County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% 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 schools and health care, then shops.
- 4,680households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 8%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 43° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 19 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Baltimore Wash International Airport weather station, 8 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; Riviera Beach has two 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
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of Riviera BeachRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Riviera Beach’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.