Rio Vista is a somewhat small city located in the state of California. With a population of 10,375 people and two associated neighborhoods, Rio Vista is the 421st largest community in California. Much of the housing stock in Rio Vista was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Rio Vista economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Rio Vista, where the median household income is $83,538.00.

Housing costs in Rio Vista are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in California.

Of important note, Rio Vista is also a city of artists. Rio Vista has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Rio Vista’s character.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.42% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

One downside of living in Rio Vista, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.86 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small city, Rio Vista does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

The citizens of Rio Vista are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 37.87% of adults in Rio Vista have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Rio Vista in 2018 was $48,159, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $192,636 for a family of four. However, Rio Vista contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Rio Vista is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Rio Vista home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rio Vista residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Rio Vista also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.00% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Rio Vista include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Rio Vista is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.