Riverton, Utah

Riverton population, 2020 to 2024

Riverton added 1,386 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.1%. In the latest year it moved by +1,323. Among 95 Utah places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 55th; the median place changed by +6.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Utah has 19,393 people, so Riverton is 2.4 times that size.

Riverton covers 12.61 square miles of land, for 3,702 people per square mile of land. The median Utah place of 5,000+ has 2,284, so Riverton is denser than the typical town.

What county Riverton is in

All of Riverton's residents live in Salt Lake County, which had 1,216,274 residents in 2024. Riverton holds 3.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Riverton

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Riverton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 84065, 84096. 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 Riverton is

The Census internal point of Riverton is at 40.517600, -111.963500. Salt Lake City, the capital, is 18.4 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is South Jordan, UT (86,156 people), 3.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is West Jordan, UT, 6.2 miles away.

Daylight in Riverton

At 40.52° N, Riverton gets about 15 h 04 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Riverton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Utah, measured between internal points. The closest is South Jordan, 3.0 miles away, with 86,156 people.