The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Ripley has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ripley a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Ripley does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Ripley who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.89% of the adults in Ripley have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ripley in 2022 was $26,000, which is upper middle income relative to Mississippi, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $104,000 for a family of four. However, Ripley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ripley is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Ripley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ripley residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Ripley also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.80% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ripley include English, Irish, African, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Ripley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
