River Ryan (population: 239) is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, River Ryan had a population of 239 living in 92 of its 96 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 238. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]