What is the population of Ripon city?

Ripon city has 7,803 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #123 of 807 in Wisconsin.

What is the median household income in Ripon city?

Median household income in Ripon city is $59,063 a year, 24.8% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Ripon city?

Median gross rent is $708 a month and the median home value is $161,500, so rent absorbs about 14.4% of median household income.

Is Ripon city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Ripon city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 14.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Ripon, WI population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Ripon, Wisconsin (Ripon, WI — Census place “Ripon city”) is 7,803 residents, ranking #123 of 807 places in Wisconsin. Median household income is $59,063, the median home is worth $161,500 and median gross rent runs $708 a month. Looking for the Ripon Wisconsin ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Ripon, WI: 54971.

Population: 7,803Ripon city residents
Median household income: $59,063Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $161,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $708Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 43.3 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 63.4%Owner-occupied households

Ripon ZIP codes (Wisconsin)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Ripon.

The Ripon WI ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

54971

What the numbers mean in Ripon city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Ripon city median would spend about 14.4% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 2.7× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 10.4% of residents and 63.4% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Ripon city, WI in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Ripon city is a mid-size town in Wisconsin, with 7,803 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #123 of 807 ranked by population — larger than 84% of them. The median age here is 43.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Ripon city earn a median of $59,063 a year, 24.8% below the national figure of $78,538 and 20% below the $73,880 median for the 395 Wisconsin cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 10.4% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Ripon city is valued at $161,500, 46.8% below the national figure and 24% below the $211,900 peer median, while median gross rent runs $708 a month, 49.6% below the national figure, or roughly $8,496 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 63.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

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Frequently asked questions

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What is the population of Ripon city?: Ripon city has 7,803 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #123 of 807 in Wisconsin.
What is the median household income in Ripon city?: Median household income in Ripon city is $59,063 a year, 24.8% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Ripon city?: Median gross rent is $708 a month and the median home value is $161,500, so rent absorbs about 14.4% of median household income.
Is Ripon city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Ripon city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 14.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Ripon city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.