Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Harrisville, RI

Harrisville is a census-designated place and village in the town of Burrillville in Providence County, Rhode Island.

The 2020 census counted 1,745 people in Harrisville, in 799 households, with a median age of 44.6 years.

Harrisville covers 0.86 square miles, of which 0.81 square miles is land, at an elevation of 325 feet, and its ZIP code is 02830.

The village was originally named Rhodesville after eighteenth-century privateer Captain William Rhodes, and it was renamed Harrisville after nineteenth-century manufacturer Andrew Harris, who bought the settlement and opened a spindle factory and later a cotton mill.

Much of the community forms the Harrisville Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 21, 1984, with American Colonial, Federal, and Victorian architecture.

At the 2000 census Harrisville had 1,561 residents, so the village grew by 184 people over the two decades to 2020.

Rhode Island Route 98 runs through Harrisville.

Harrisville lies about 20 miles from Providence.

A 2016-2020 American Community Survey estimate put Harrisville's median household income at $43,333.

The CDP's population density in 2020 was about 2,149 people per square mile.