Riviera Beach, FL population, income and ZIP codes

Riviera Beach city is a small city in Florida, with 38,032 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #112 of 955 ranked by population — larger than 88% of them. The median age here is 38.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Riviera Beach city earn a median of $62,152 a year, 20.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 9% below the $68,617 median for the 775 Florida cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 17.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Riviera Beach city is valued at $311,900, 2.8% above the national figure and within a couple of points of the $305,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,489 a month, 5.9% above the national figure, or roughly $17,868 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 28.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 58% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.