Doniphan, Missouri.
Typical home $159,108 (+6.4% in a year). Poplar Bluff, MO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$334 (+67%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,515 +6%
- $149,593$159,108 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $10,665 +7%
- $148,443$159,108 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Doniphan$835
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 50 years.
Typical home values in Doniphan, MO rose 6.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Doniphan, Ripley County, Missouri
Doniphan is a city of 1,781 people in Ripley County. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Ripley County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ripley County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Doniphan is a small city and the seat of Ripley County in the Missouri Ozarks. Its people are younger on average than in many small towns, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, summers are hot, and the year brings steady rain along with a modest amount of snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and transport and warehousing also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in town are Doniphan R-I Schools, Harp's Food Store and the Forest Service. Incomes across Ripley County run below the state's typical level, and the county has lost some jobs in the past year.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby. Bills Creek runs in or beside town, and Buffalo Creek, Capps Creek and Little Black River are all a short drive away. A longer drive leads to the Current River and to Current River Cavern, a tourist attraction.
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- 837households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 13%work from home
What people in Ripley County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ripley County had 2,800 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°. About 8 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Doniphan weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Doniphan
- Doniphan R-I SchoolsSchool district178FTE
- Harp's Food StoreRetail grocery97
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 97 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Doniphan’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Ripley County and the Poplar Bluff, MO metro.
Doniphan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Doniphan$159,108
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Doniphan listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Doniphan14.94%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Doniphan88
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Doniphan16
Zip codes with a Doniphan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Doniphan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.