County / FIPS 29181
Ripley County
Missouri
Ripley County runs 10 public schools reporting to NCES. No Medicare-certified hospital reports to CMS from here — a real finding about rural healthcare access, not a gap in this site; Missouri has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
10
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
630
Ripley 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
10,708
Median household income
$42,037
Poverty rate
24.8%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$119,600
Median gross rent
$654
Bachelor's degree or higher
12.6%
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 Ripley County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$96.9M
Per resident
$9,071
Change since FY2021
+3%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $94M |
| 2022 | $82M |
| 2023 | $84M |
| 2024 | $82M |
| 2025 | $97M |
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. Ripley County ranks 2388th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Ripley County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doniphan Elem. | Doniphan R-I | Doniphan | 378 |
| Doniphan High | Doniphan R-I | Doniphan | 476 |
| Doniphan Intermediate | Doniphan R-I | Doniphan | 343 |
| Doniphan Middle | Doniphan R-I | Doniphan | 361 |
| Naylor Elem. | Naylor R-Ii | Naylor | 220 |
| Naylor High School | Naylor R-Ii | Naylor | 159 |
| Ripley Co. Elem. | Ripley Co. R-Iii | Gatewood | 121 |
| Ripley Co. Elem. | Ripley Co. R-Iv | Doniphan | 123 |
| Current River School | Mo Schls for the Sev Disabled | Doniphan | 8 |
| Current River Career Center | Doniphan R-I | Doniphan | — |