County / FIPS 19159
Ringgold County
Iowa
Ringgold County runs 4 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS.
At a glance
Public schools
4
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
0
Land area
535
Ringgold County in numbers
American Community Survey five-year estimates ending 2024. These are sample estimates, not a count — each carries a margin of error, and where that margin is too wide to mean anything the figure is withheld rather than printed.
Population
4,645
Median household income
$73,346
Poverty rate
8.8%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$156,200
Median gross rent
$710
Bachelor's degree or higher
24.6%
One figure is withheld above. The Census Bureau publishes them, but with a margin of error wider than 30% of the value — which for a place this size means the survey sampled too few households to say. They are left out rather than shown with a caveat nobody reads.
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Ringgold County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$37.5M
Per resident
$8,040
Change since FY2021
−35%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $58M |
| 2022 | $44M |
| 2023 | $32M |
| 2024 | $32M |
| 2025 | $37M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Ringgold County ranks 3003rd of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Ringgold County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Ringgold County Hospital | Mount Ayr | Not rated |
Public schools in Ringgold County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diagonal Elementary School | Diagonal Comm School District | Diagonal | 68 |
| Diagonal Junior-Senior High School | Diagonal Comm School District | Diagonal | 62 |
| Mount Ayr Elementary | Mount Ayr Comm School District | Mount Ayr | 339 |
| Mount Ayr High School | Mount Ayr Comm School District | Mount Ayr | 294 |