Census-designated place · Pasco County, Florida

River Ridge, Florida

River Ridge is a census-designated place in Pasco County, Florida, part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL metro area. It has 5,149 residents. River Ridge, Florida has a quality-of-life score of 41 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #9,254 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Florida it ranks #434 of 780 cities and towns. It ranks best on broadband subscriptions (high), comfortable days (high) and new business applications (high). It ranks worst on public libraries (low), rent-burdened households (high) and social associations (low).

41Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #9,254 of 15,651 cities and towns
Florida: #434 of 780 in FL
Population: 5,149 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 1,228.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 1260835

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety57#6,735/15,637
Economy70#4,639/15,631
Housing17#12,365/14,977
Health44#8,797/15,609
Healthcare15#13,305/15,650
Environment69#4,845/15,453
Education57#6,701/15,649
Infrastructure72#4,364/15,650
Community20#12,583/15,651
Leisure & amenities25#11,773/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where River Ridge, Florida ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Pasco County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Broadband subscriptions · high98.9%
97/100Florida 91.6%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Comfortable days · high32.5%
89/100Florida 32.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPasco County value
New business applications · high19.5 /1k
88/100Florida 27.6 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauPasco County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Florida 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePasco County value
Property crime rate · low581 /100k
85/100Florida 1,176 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2024Federal Bureau of InvestigationPasco County value
Pharmacies · high2.1 /10k
79/100Florida 2.0 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPasco County value

Weaknesses

Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
2/100Florida 0.2 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesPasco County value
Rent-burdened households · high50.2%
5/100Florida 60.1%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Social associations · low4.9 /10k
6/100Florida 6.9 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstitutePasco County value
Hot days · high113 days
6/100Florida 102 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPasco County value
Rent as share of income · high30.0%
7/100Florida 35.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high18.9%
11/100Florida 13.7%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Median household incomeImproving
$61,546 (2015-2019) → $102,798 (2020-2024)
+67%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
86.2% (2015-2019) → 98.9% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
17.1% (2015-2019) → 27.5% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Child poverty rateImproving
9.6% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−9.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
13.2% (2015-2019) → 18.9% (2020-2024)
+5.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Unemployment rateWorsening
4.4% (2015-2019) → 9.4% (2020-2024)
+5 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, River Ridge, Florida improved on 3 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved3

Household income+67%$61,546 → $102,798
Bachelor's++10 points17.1% → 27.5%
Broadband+13 points86.2% → 98.9%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of River Ridge, Florida between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	29.0 min2015-2019	32.2 min2020-2024	+3.2 min	Within the margin of error	18%
Bachelor's degree or higher	17.1%2015-2019	27.5%2020-2024	+10 points	Improved	91%
Broadband subscriptions	86.2%2015-2019	98.9%2020-2024	+13 points	Improved	72%
Effective property tax rate	0.78%2015-2019	0.62%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	49%
High school diploma or higher	92.5%2015-2019	93.0%2020-2024	+0.5 points	Within the margin of error	40%
Home price to income ratio	2.8×2015-2019	3.2×2020-2024	+0.4×	Within the margin of error	55%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3982015-2019	0.4192020-2024	+0.020	Within the margin of error	34%
Median household income	$61,5462015-2019	$102,7982020-2024	+67%	Improved	93%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	31.1%2015-2019	30.0%2020-2024	−1.1 points	Within the margin of error	63%
Rent-burdened households	53.3%2015-2019	50.2%2020-2024	−3.2 points	Within the margin of error	67%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	13.2%2015-2019	18.9%2020-2024	+5.7 points	Within the margin of error	8%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like River Ridge, Florida five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of River Ridge, Florida in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, River Ridge, Florida itself moved +7.4 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

5,149 residents (±716)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

1,772 households (±219)

River Ridge, Florida
Florida share

Under $25k6.7%†119
$25k–50k7.8%†139
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

1,772 households (±219)

River Ridge, Florida
Florida share

Own80%1,426
Rent20%†346

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

2,675 workers (±557)

River Ridge, Florida
Florida share

Drive alone79%2,119
Carpool2.7%†71
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Pasco County, the county holding most of River Ridge's residents.

Pasco County has 11,975 employer establishments, 189 for every 10,000 residents (0.76× the US rate of 248; 0.67× Florida's), with 123,042 paid employees at an average annual pay of $46,815. The Census Bureau also counts 66,987 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 11,975; 66,987 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 189; US 248 · Florida 282
Paid employees: 123,042
Average annual pay: $46,815; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Pasco County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	1,297	20.4	0.98×About typical	12,092	$70,335	3,505
Specialty trade contractors	1,004	15.8	1.02×About typical	7,842	$54,720	4,176
Restaurants and other eating places	777	12.2	0.67×Fewer than typical	15,085	$21,300	321
Lessors of real estate	715	11.3	0.91×About typical	1,698	$42,068	5,742
Services to buildings and dwellings	574	9	1.34×More than typical	3,307	$38,303	5,141
Offices of physicians	498	7.8	1.21×About typical	5,406	$88,916	481
Building equipment contractors	381	6	1.00×About typical	3,628	$52,999	785
Management, scientific and technical consulting	377	5.9	0.88×About typical	892	$63,189	2,213
Limited-service restaurants	362	5.7	0.71×Fewer than typical	6,587	$18,384	116
Offices of other health practitioners	352	5.5	0.91×About typical	1,654	$42,854	1,388
Real estate agents and brokers	339	5.3	1.10×About typical	489	$50,579	2,499
Full-service restaurants	318	5	0.65×Fewer than typical	7,211	$24,474	133

Rank places for an industry Open Pasco County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 634,951 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $803.2K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in River Ridge, Florida: $156 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $803.2K; −37% vs FY2025
Per resident: $156; US $1,994
Sole-source: 60%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Department of the Navy$606.1K75%
Defense Logistics Agency$143.1K18%
Department of Veterans Affairs$89.1K11%
Federal Emergency Management Agency$1,6810.2%

Top recipients

PALL AEROPOWER CORPORATION$723K90%
RNJJ MED, LLC$12.8K1.6%
RED ONE MEDICAL DEVICES LLC$7,1340.9%
CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS USA, INC$6,9180.9%
BREMER BRACE OF FLORIDA INC$6,8210.8%

Spending by fiscal year

2.7MFY2017
3MFY2018
3.6MFY2019
1.8MFY2020
1.9MFY2021
3MFY2022
2.7MFY2023
2.4M

Top industries (NAICS)

Aerospace product and parts manufacturing · 3364$688K86%
Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing · 3391$81.1K10%
Other general purpose machinery manufacturing · 3339$26.4K3.3%
Other fabricated metal product manufacturing · 3329$25.2K3.1%
Hardware manufacturing · 3325$11.9K1.5%
Motor vehicle parts manufacturing · 3363$10.4K1.3%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in River Ridge, Florida, so they do not add up across cities.

River Ridge, Florida's figures are part of those of Pasco County, FL ($42.9M in FY2026), never added to them: 1.9% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: River Ridge is mostly in Pasco County.

See federal money in Pasco County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

River Ridge, Florida is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

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County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Pasco County52100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL64

Other cities and towns in Pasco County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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