Riverdale, Edmonton

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Riverdale is a river valley neighbourhood located just east of the downtown core in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Its boundaries on the east and south are the North Saskatchewan River. Immediately across the river to the south is another Edmonton river valley neighbourhood--Cloverdale. Riverdale shares the approaches to the Low Level Bridge with a third river valley neighbourhood, Rossdale. To the north, is the neighbourhood of Boyle Street. Riverdale's boundary with the downtown core runs approximately along Grierson Hill Road.DemographicsIn the City of Edmonton's 2012 municipal census, Riverdale had a population of living in dwellings, a -2.7% change from its 2009 population of. With a land area of 1.04km2, it had a population density of people/km2 in 2012.Residential developmentThe neighbourhood was a popular site with early residents of the city of Edmonton, and soon had both a lumbermill and brickyard with fuel supplied by coal mined from nearby cliffs in the river valley.Today, approximately one residential dwelling in four dates from before 1946. Most of the rest of the homes were built over the next 40 years, with only one dwelling in ten dating from 1985 or later.There is one school, Riverdale School, located in the neighbourhood.

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Riverdale, Edmonton is Edmonton based place and this enity listed in Neighborhood category.