Riverdale, Georgia

Riverdale population, 2020 to 2024

Riverdale lost 425 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.8%. In the latest year it moved by -149. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 138th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Riverdale is 90% of it.

Riverdale covers 4.39 square miles of land, for 3,323 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Riverdale is denser than the typical town.

What county Riverdale is in

All of Riverdale's residents live in Clayton County, which had 297,703 residents in 2024. Riverdale holds 4.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Riverdale

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Riverdale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30274, 30296. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Riverdale is

The Census internal point of Riverdale is at 33.563900, -84.411000. Atlanta, the capital, is 12.9 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Forest Park, GA (19,301 people), 5.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is South Fulton, GA, 11.1 miles away.

Daylight in Riverdale

At 33.56° N, Riverdale gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Riverdale

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Jonesboro, 4.4 miles away, with 6,084 people.