The population of Ripley county is estimated at 28,408. In 2017 there were 307 births and 314 deaths in Ripley county. Ripley county has 5,703 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 2,501 that are owned free and clear and 2,585 that are renter occupied.

  The upstanding residents of Ripley County filed 13,500 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.4% of all Indiana filings and 0.009% of the entire nation. Ripley had a combined total federal tax liability of $103,799,000 on earned income of $714,270,000. Other notable statistics from Ripley County were 290 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,124,000 and 1,960 charitable contributions valued at $8,001,000. 2,330 filings from Ripley County paid a combined total of $3,541,000 in property taxes and 1,990 filings paid $12,147,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Ripley county had 64 religious congregations with an estimated 17,367 members.
18.2% of the Ripley population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 12.0% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 45% of Ripley County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 1,808 votes.
At $52,562 the median income is 97.1% of the Indiana average. An estimated 501 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Ripley, the equivalant of around 3.6% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Ripley County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
2,444	Manufacturing
1,404	Health care and social assistance
1,183	Miscellaneous manufacturing
844	Retail trade
788	Transportation and warehousing
659	Truck transportation
632	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
572	General freight trucking
455	Restaurants and other eating places
347	Ambulatory health care services
263	Finance and insurance
251	Food and beverage stores
233	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
213	Grocery stores
200	Amusement, gambling, and recreation industries

In 2018 7.41% of listings in Ripley County.

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