Ripley, Tennessee.
Typical home $146,529 (+15.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$444 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,961 +16%
- $126,567$146,529 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,027 +24%
- $118,502$146,529 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.
- Ripley$769
- Tennessee$1,737
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Ripley, TN rose 15.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ripley, Lauderdale County, Tennessee
Ripley is a city of 7,800 people in Lauderdale County. 45% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 55% are rented. Unemployment in Lauderdale County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ripley is a small city and the seat of Lauderdale County in western Tennessee. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners here than in many American towns, and a good many households live on incomes below what is typical for the county. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few people work from home. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and the rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Ripley are Marvin Windows and Doors, which makes wood windows and doors, Lauderdale County Schools, and Lauderdale Community Hospital. Unemployment across the county is about the same as it was a year ago, and the number of jobs there has held steady.
Things to do. The Ripley Fire Lookout Tower is a tourist attraction a short drive away, and so is Chickasaw National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area for walking and watching wildlife. A longer drive brings you to Fort Pillow State Park, an archaeological site, and to Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge, another protected area. The Forked Deer River is also within a longer drive for anyone who likes to be near water.
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- 2,818households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 31%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lauderdale County had 6,310 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 2 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ripley weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ripley
- Marvin Windows and Doors - RipleyWood window and door manufacturing678
- Lauderdale County SchoolsSchool district554FTE
- West TN ExpeditingGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload200
- Lauderdale Community HospitalCritical access hospital101FTE
- Ripley Healthcare and Rehabilitation CenterSkilled nursing facilities56
- Tennessee TractorAgricultural machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services28
- ABM IndustriesService to buildings and dwellings26
- RipleyMail and parcel delivery25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,013 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ripley’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Lauderdale County.
Ripley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ripley$146,529
- Tennessee$330,844
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Ripley 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.
- Ripley27.71%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ripley54
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ripley11
Zip codes with a Ripley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ripley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.