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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.

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At a glance

Public schools

10schools

Hospitals

0facilities

With a star rating

0facilities

Land area

630sq mi

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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

10,708people

2438th of 3,222

Median household income

$42,037

3029th of 3,222

Poverty rate

24.8%

± 4.7% — wide margin, not ranked

Unemployment rate

Not published

Sample too small here — the margin exceeds the figure by too much to report.

Median home value

$119,600

2677th of 3,222, tied with 1

Median gross rent

$654

2927th of 3,222

Bachelor's degree or higher

12.6%

± 2.6% — wide margin, not ranked

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.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates. Margins of error are the Bureau’s own, at 90% confidence; margins for rates are derived using the Bureau’s published formulas.

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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

2388th of 3,233 among counties

Per resident

$9,0712020 population

Change since FY2021

+3%nominal

Fiscal years covered

5years

Federal obligations in Ripley County, FY2021–FY2025
$80M$85M$90M$95M$100M
$97M
202120232025
View as table
PeriodObligations
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.

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Public schools in Ripley County

Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.

Public schools in Ripley County
SchoolDistrictCityEnrollment
Doniphan Elem.Doniphan R-IDoniphan378
Doniphan HighDoniphan R-IDoniphan476
Doniphan IntermediateDoniphan R-IDoniphan343
Doniphan MiddleDoniphan R-IDoniphan361
Naylor Elem.Naylor R-IiNaylor220
Naylor High SchoolNaylor R-IiNaylor159
Ripley Co. Elem.Ripley Co. R-IiiGatewood121
Ripley Co. Elem.Ripley Co. R-IvDoniphan123
Current River SchoolMo Schls for the Sev DisabledDoniphan8
Current River Career CenterDoniphan R-IDoniphan
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