Riverton, Wyoming

Riverton population, 2020 to 2024

Riverton added 260 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.4%. In the latest year it moved by -11. Among 16 Wyoming places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 4th; the median place changed by +0.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Wyoming has 11,214 people, so Riverton is 98% of it.

Riverton covers 10.36 square miles of land, for 1,057 people per square mile of land. The median Wyoming place of 5,000+ has 1,493, so Riverton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Riverton is in

All of Riverton's residents live in Fremont County, which had 39,721 residents in 2024. Riverton holds 27.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Riverton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Riverton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 82501. 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 43.026300, -108.381300. Cheyenne, the capital, is 224.3 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Casper, WY (58,823 people), 104.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Billings, MT, 191.0 miles away.

Daylight in Riverton

At 43.03° N, Riverton gets about 15 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 22 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 Wyoming, measured between internal points. The closest is Lander, 22.2 miles away, with 7,451 people.