Ripley, Tennessee

Ripley population, 2020 to 2024

Ripley lost 249 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.2%. In the latest year it moved by -69. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 103rd; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Ripley is 62% of it.

Ripley covers 12.87 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 586 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Ripley is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ripley is in

All of Ripley's residents live in Lauderdale County, which had 24,630 residents in 2024. Ripley holds 30.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ripley

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ripley by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 38063. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Ripley is

The Census internal point of Ripley is at 35.746100, -89.534100. Nashville, the capital, is 156.5 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Covington, TN (8,575 people), 14.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Memphis, TN, 50.3 miles away.

Daylight in Ripley

At 35.75° N, Ripley gets about 14 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 44 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ripley

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Halls, 11.7 miles away, with 2,033 people.