Riverdale, New Jersey

Riverdale population, 2020 to 2024

Riverdale added 43 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.0%. In the latest year it moved by +9.

Riverdale covers 2.03 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 2,040 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Riverdale is less dense than the typical town.

What county Riverdale is in

All of Riverdale's residents live in Morris County, which had 523,053 residents in 2024. Riverdale 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

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Riverdale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07457. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a borough that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Riverdale is

The Census internal point of Riverdale is at 40.995900, -74.314500. Trenton, the capital, is 58.3 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pompton Lakes, NJ (11,156 people), 1.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Paterson, NJ, 9.7 miles away.

Daylight in Riverdale

At 41.00° N, Riverdale gets about 15 h 08 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 13 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 54 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 New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Pompton Lakes, 1.5 miles away, with 11,156 people.