Riverdale Park, Maryland

Riverdale Park population, 2020 to 2024

Riverdale Park lost 37 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +63. Among 46 Maryland places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 42nd; the median place changed by +1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maryland has 10,155 people, so Riverdale Park is 72% of it.

Riverdale Park covers 1.59 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 4,589 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Riverdale Park is denser than the typical town.

What county Riverdale Park is in

All of Riverdale Park's residents live in Prince George's County, which had 966,629 residents in 2024. Riverdale Park holds 0.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Riverdale Park

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Riverdale Park by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 20737, 20740. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Riverdale Park is

The Census internal point of Riverdale Park is at 38.966700, -76.927100. Annapolis, the capital, is 23.4 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hyattsville, MD (21,052 people), 1.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Washington, DC, 6.5 miles away.

Daylight in Riverdale Park

At 38.97° N, Riverdale Park gets about 14 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 26 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Riverdale Park

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is University Park, 1.0 miles away, with 2,431 people.