Best PlacesRiverview, MI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Riverview, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Riverview ranks 21,638th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on biking by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Riverview
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Riverview's strengths and weaknesses
Where Riverview ranks high
- BikingBetter than 98% of towns
- TransitBetter than 96% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 93% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 90% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 87% of towns
Where Riverview ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 6% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 12% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 12% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 22% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Riverview
A household needs to earn about $66,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Riverview home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $79,234, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Riverview's effective rate of 1.74%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 6 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Riverview
Riverview's age mix sits close to the national median.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Riverview.
Who works in Riverview, and how
Work in Riverview centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 85%
- Work from home 11%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Riverview
Riverview has more parkland per resident than 88% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Riverview and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Riverview, month by month
Riverview sees roughly 79 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 83 degrees. January highs sit near 34, with lows near 23. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34° | 28° | 23° |
| April | 57° | 47° | 39° |
| July | 83° | 74° | 66° |
| October | 63° | 55° | 48° |
Flying in and out of Riverview
Detroit Metro Wayne County sits about 8 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 16.3 million passengers in 2025, with 168 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Riverview
Schools across Riverview average a C, better than 33% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Yake Elementary SchoolB− · 44% proficient
- Forest Elementary SchoolC · 32% proficient
- Gudith Elementary SchoolC− · 28% proficient
Top middle schools
- Brownstown Middle SchoolC+ · 38% proficient
- Seitz Middle SchoolC− · 31% proficient
Top high schools
- Riverview Community High SchoolC+ · 35% proficient
- Woodhaven High SchoolC · 34% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Riverview school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Riverview measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Riverview against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Riverview
Is Riverview a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Riverview ranks 21,638th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on biking, transit, and walkability, and lowest on car insurance costs and property taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Riverview expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $225,106. The overall cost of living runs about 8% below the national average. Set against a $79,234 median income, cost of living beats 57% of towns.
Is Riverview safe?
Riverview is safer than 39% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $353 per resident a year.
Compare Riverview with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Riverview. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Riverview represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Riverview detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Riverview: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Riverview: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Riverview: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Riverview: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Riverview detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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