ZIP code 45167: Ripley

Drinking-water compliance

Most homes here are on private wells, which EPA does not regulate or test; a well owner tests on their own.

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (Envirofacts, pulled September 2026), violations and lead and copper sampling for the system that serves most of this ZIP · EPA SDWIS (Envirofacts) · EPA ECHO

Byproducts and contaminants

Most homes here are on private wells, which nobody samples for compliance; a well owner tests on their own.

Source: EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring data, 2012 to 2019 (TTHM, HAA5 and coliform from distribution-system samples of the system that serves most of this ZIP; nitrate, arsenic, radionuclides, solvents, herbicides and metals from the entry points of the same system); non-detects counted as zero

PFAS

Most homes here are on private wells, which nobody tests for PFAS unless the owner pays for it.

Source: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence data (final release, August 2026) and Ohio EPA statewide PFAS sampling 2019 to 2021 and its current status map, for the system that serves most of this ZIP; results in nanograms per litre (parts per trillion) · Ohio EPA PFAS

Lead at the tap

Most homes here are on private wells; lead there comes from the house plumbing, and only a lab test of the tap will find it.

Children: this ZIP is not on the Ohio Department of Health's high-risk list for childhood lead testing; children on Medicaid or in pre-1978 housing with peeling paint should still be tested.

Housing age: 47% of the homes here were built before 1960 and 31% before 1940, when lead service lines, lead solder and lead paint were common; 64% predate 1980 (Census ACS 2020 to 2024).

Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System lead and copper 90th-percentile results (Envirofacts) and EPA's service line inventory dashboard (2026 Q2), for the system that serves most of this ZIP · ODH childhood lead testing · ODH high-risk ZIP list (CCBH PDF) · Ohio EPA lead and copper · H2Ohio

Fluoride and treatment

Most homes here are on private wells: no fluoride is added, and any treatment is the household softener or filter.

The health department counts 90.4% of Brown County residents on community water as receiving fluoridated water.

Source: CDC My Water's Fluoride, fluoridation status of each system as reported by the Ohio Department of Health; EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System treatment table for the system serving most of this ZIP; EPA Six-Year Review 4 compliance monitoring, 2012 to 2019; Ohio Department of Health fluoridation report (DataOhio) for the county share · EPA SDWIS search

Algal toxins

Most homes here are on private wells, which algal blooms do not reach.

Source: Ohio EPA public water system harmful algal bloom monitoring (HAB data and map, DrinkingWater/HAB service, fetched 2026-09-09), total microcystins by ELISA in raw and treated water, for the system that serves most of this ZIP · Ohio EPA HAB information for public water systems

Groundwater

Under the surface

glacial till (clay-rich, poor yields), part of the Anderson Thin Upland Aquifer (thin upland setting); wells there yield < 5 gallons a minute, deposits < 25 ft thick

Bedrock

Ordovician undivided, yielding 0 - 5 gpm to a well

Setting

Limestone and Shale; water table 15-30 ft down, 0-2 in/yr recharge, thin or absent soil (hydrogeologic setting 7Gh); pesticide index 121

Karst

55 karst and spring points in ODNR's inventory inside the ZIP (11 field-verified), 0.9 per square mile

Well logs

73 drilled wells on file (21.2 per 1,000 residents), median 55 ft deep, 5 gallons a minute median test yield, water 23 ft down

Aquifers

41% of wells in bedrock, 59% in sand, gravel and other unconsolidated material; typical well drilled 1977, 23 since 2000; uses: Monitor 28, Domestic 23

Geology

72% of the ZIP is a sensitive geologic setting, where thin or sandy cover leaves the aquifer open to what soaks in from the surface; its population center sits on Ordovician limestone and shale known to form karst, under less than 20 ft of drift; 11 field-verified sinkholes and 27 probable sinkholes inside the ZIP, where surface water can pour straight into the aquifer (Ohio EPA and ODNR Geological Survey)

Injection wells

114 Class V injection wells on Ohio EPA's books inside this ZIP (84 active): 7 large septic, 107 cleanup injection; these put fluids underground above or into drinking water aquifers

Water table

BR-20 OH monitoring well (ODNR), 17.8 mi away: water 25.4 ft below ground on 2026-07-27; averaged 24.8 ft in 2015 to 2019 and 26 ft over the latest year, so the table is running about 1.2 ft lower; range 24 to 37.1 ft over 4,003 readings since 2015

Nitrate risk

EPA researchers put the chance that a public water system in the Redoak Creek subwatershed exceeds the nitrate limit at 27% if it draws on groundwater and 25% if it draws on rivers or lakes, judged from land use, geology and past results (EnviroAtlas nitrate violation index; the typical Ohio subwatershed scores 23% for groundwater and 39% for surface water)

Quality monitoring

Ohio EPA's nearest ambient groundwater monitoring well is Brown County RWA (Brown County), 5.8 mi away: 65 ft deep in sand and gravel (Ohio River aquifer); wells there yield 100 to 500 gallons a minute; sampled every 18 months. 2 active wells within 15 mi

Vulnerability rates how easily a spill at the surface reaches the aquifer, not whether anything has. Well logs include abandoned and replaced wells, so counts overstate wells in use; a private well owner is the only one who tests it.

Source: ODNR Division of Geological Survey, Groundwater Vulnerability (DRASTIC) map (polygon at the ZIP's population-weighted center), karst feature inventory, and the Ohio water well log database (logs inside the ZIP boundary) · ODNR Geological Survey · Ohio EPA GIS services · USGS water data

Aquifer exposure

Karst

the population center sits on Ordovician limestone and shale known to form karst, under less than 20 ft of drift; 11 field-verified and 27 probable sinkholes inside the ZIP; nearest verified sinkhole 1.5 mi from the center

Wellhead protection

less than half a percent of this ZIP lies inside any public water system's five-year wellhead protection area

Vulnerability index

DRASTIC 89 (ODNR; higher means a spill at the surface reaches the aquifer more easily)

Sensitive settings are outwash plains, buried valleys, karst and shallow bedrock, mapped statewide by Ohio EPA for siting decisions. Exposure is not contamination: it says how quickly a spill, a failing tank or heavy manure would reach the water table, not whether one has.

Source: Ohio EPA Sensitive Geologic Settings and karst geology layers (geology/Geology), ODNR Geological Survey karst and spring points, Ohio EPA source water protection areas (DrinkingWater/SWAP); shares by ZIP boundary overlay, karst by a point query at the population-weighted center · Ohio EPA geology layers · Ohio EPA source water protection (SWAP) · ODNR Geological Survey

Sewage treatment

Size

0.4 million gallons a day design flow

Compliance

12 of the last 12 quarters with a violation; currently in significant noncompliance (Effluent - Monthly Average Limit); 140 effluent limit exceedances in 3 years

Other discharge permits: 2 facilities inside this ZIP other than sewage plants hold a Clean Water Act permit (factories, water plants, quarries, package plants, storm water), 1 of them major; 3 facility-quarters with a violation in the last three years; largest: Kingfisher Stuart (major). 1 more industrial user discharges to the sewer under a pretreatment permit.

Sludge source: 1 permitted biosolids generator is inside this ZIP; nearest Ripley STP, 1.7 mi away; 2 within 10 miles (Ohio EPA).

State water loans: 2 projects inside this ZIP have borrowed $8.4 million from Ohio EPA's revolving loan funds since 2023 (1 sewer, storm water and runoff project for $50,000; 1 drinking water project for $8.3 million), with $50,000 of principal forgiven. Largest: Village of Ripley / Ripley Union Water System Improvements (Brown County Rural Water Association, 2023, $8.3 million); latest: WWTP Emergency Generator Revitalization (Ripley, 2026, $50,000). Below-market loans are how most Ohio treatment plants and water mains get rebuilt.

Sewer planning: 96% of it is assigned to Brown County as the designated sewage management agency under Ohio's Clean Water Act section 208 plan (generic prescriptions); 3 agencies share the ZIP. The 208 plan decides who may build and extend sewers.

Stormwater: this ZIP lies outside Ohio EPA's regulated MS4 areas, so its storm drains and ditches carry runoff without a municipal stormwater permit. 1 site with an address in this ZIP holds its own industrial stormwater permit (Ripley Metalworks Ltd) (EPA Facility Finder).

Plants inside this ZIP: Ripley Sewage Treatment Plant (0.4 MGD).

Where a home's sewage actually goes depends on the sewer district, and rural homes are on septic systems the county health department permits; the nearest plant is a proxy. Violations range from paperwork to raw discharges.

Source: EPA Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO), Clean Water Act NPDES facilities with a POTW component in Ohio; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center. Compliance data lag about a quarter.; other Clean Water Act permit holders inside the ZIP from the same service · EPA ECHO · EPA CSO inventory · Ohio EPA GIS services · EPA Facility Finder

Stream health

Uses failing

aquatic life 84% of the land, recreation (bacteria) 60%, fish consumption not assessed here, drinking-water source 0% (that use is assessed on only 2% of the ZIP)

Causes listed

low oxygen (72%), bacteria (pathogens) (60%), other (55%)

Cleanup plans

0% of the land is under a TMDL pollution budget

Watersheds here: Eagle Creek (not supporting); Redoak Creek (not supporting).

Nearest stream assessment (Ohio EPA): Red Oak Creek At Stringtown @ Ripley Rd. on the Redoak Creek, 0.5 mi away, draining 16 square miles: full attainment of its warmwater use; fish IBI 48 of 60 (2015); bugs rated exceptional; habitat QHEI 84 of 100. 17 assessed sites inside the ZIP, 9 within 3 miles, 47 within 10. Scores above about 40 (IBI), 36 (ICI) and 60 (QHEI) mean a healthy warmwater stream.

Stream designations (Ohio EPA water quality standards): 63.8 miles of designated streams cross this ZIP: 40.9 mi warmwater habitat, 20.2 mi exceptional warmwater habitat, 2.7 mi coldwater habitat. Nearest specially protected stream: the Grace run, 15.3 mi away, a Superior High Quality Water. Exceptional and coldwater streams are the state's healthiest; modified and limited-resource waters are channelized or ditched.

Farm chemicals (USGS estimate, 2018): farms in Brown County used about 162 metric tons of pesticide active ingredient, 329 kg per square mile, 36th of Ohio's 88 counties. Largest: glyphosate 63 t, acetochlor 25 t, metolachlor 14 t, atrazine 14 t, 2,4-D 8 t. Atrazine, the corn herbicide, is the pesticide that most often shows up in Ohio tap water after spring rains; this county used 14 t of it.

Farms (2022 Census of Agriculture): 1,103 farms work 177,509 acres of Brown County, with 38.8% of its land in cropland, 161 acres to a farm. 14,328 cattle, 181 hogs, 3,764 laying hens, 335 broilers, 100 turkeys; 16,025 acres of corn and 73,229 of soybeans. Sales $81 million, 12% from animals and animal products. Manure and fertilizer from farms like these carry the phosphorus and nitrogen behind Ohio's algae and nitrate problems; withheld figures protect individual farms.

A watershed unit fails when any sampled stream in it fails; ditches in flat farm country fail on habitat and nutrients, city creeks on bacteria and sediment. Ohio's own report is at epa.ohio.gov; the EPA link on each unit's report page has the sampling detail.

Source: EPA ATTAINS (Ohio EPA 2024 Integrated Report), watershed assessment units overlaid on the ZIP boundary in an equal-area projection; shares are of the ZIP's land area · EPA ATTAINS · Ohio integrated report · Ohio sport fish advisory · Ohio EPA advisory map

Watershed

• Ohio Brush-Whiteoak100% of residentsDrains to the Ohio River

H2Ohio: nearest project Williamsburg Wetland Treatment System, inland flow-through and floodplain wetland, funded 2020, completed, 24.7 mi away: The Williamsburg Wetland Treatment System is part of a multifaceted nutrient reduction initiative in the watershed of the East Fork Little Miami and William H. ...; 0 within 5 miles, 0 within 15. H2Ohio pays for wetlands, farm practices and lead line work to cut the nutrients behind Lake Erie's algae.

Watershed grants: nearest "White Oak Creek" by Ovrcd (agricultural bmps, Section 319), 7.4 mi away; 1 within 10 miles (Ohio EPA project lists: Section 319 and GLRI through fiscal 2023, SWIF through 2017).

The population center sits in the Redoak Creek subwatershed; its water runs on through Lee Creek-Ohio River, then Turtle Creek-Ohio River, then Bear Creek-Ohio River.

In 2015 Brown County drew about 5 million gallons a day of fresh water (USGS): 3.1 million for public supply (82% from wells, 40,900 people served at 54 gallons a person a day at home), 1.9 million for mining; 2,900 residents drew their own well water.

EnviroAtlas, Redoak Creek: under 50 acres in the Conservation Reserve Program; 1,917 acres of grain crops; 57 miles of streams (2.9 per square mile); water use of 85 thousand gallons a day for homes; 45 inches of rain and snow a year; 10.4 kg of nitrogen per hectare falling from the air each year; farm nitrogen of 0 kg per hectare a year as manure and 39.4 kg as synthetic fertilizer; 2% of the farmland sits on drained hydric soils; potentially restorable wetlands on farmland cover 4% of the subwatershed; 1.7% of the land is paved or roofed; 70% of the stream banks keep natural cover (EPA EnviroAtlas national metrics, 2010s vintages).

Stream permits: 52% of this ZIP drains to streams Ohio EPA rates high quality, where a project that fills, pipes or crosses a stream needs an individual Ohio EPA 401 water quality review; 42% drains toward high-quality waters farther down and might qualify for the Army Corps' blanket nationwide permits after a field screening and 6% can use those nationwide permits outright (Ohio EPA 401 nationwide permit eligibility map).

Source: USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset (HUC-8 subbasins by resident share, HUC-12 subwatershed at the population center) · 2020 census blocks · USGS watershed boundaries · EPA EnviroAtlas · Ohio EPA 401 map · USGS county water use 2015 · ODNR H2Ohio projects · ODNR Lake Erie Coastal Management Area · Ohio EPA source water protection (SWAP) · Ohio EPA nine-element plans · Ohio EPA 319, GLRI and SWIF project lists · Ohio EPA chloride reduction grants · NOAA Lake Erie water levels

Homes and income

Household income

$68,750 median

Income spread

18% of households earn under $25,000 a year, 29% $100,000 or more and 4.4% $200,000 or more

Rent

$741 a month, median gross

Owner-occupied

73% of 1,334 occupied homes; 46% of owners carry a mortgage

Typical home built

1964

Value spread

27% of owner-occupied homes are worth under $100,000 and 8.8% $500,000 or more; income per person $32,348 a year

Moved in

the typical owner moved in in 2007, the typical renter in 2017

Median age

45.1 years

Commute

33 minutes each way on average, 29% of commuters travel 45 minutes or more, 4% work from home

Housing stock

75% single-family detached, 2% in buildings of 5 or more units, 11.9% mobile homes

Vacancy

17% of 1,602 housing units are vacant: 0.6% for rent, 1.8% for sale, 4.6% held for seasonal or occasional use, 9.7% other, such as homes held off the market, in probate or abandoned

Owner costs

12% of owners with a mortgage and 15% of owners without one spend 30% or more of income on housing

Evictions

1.33 eviction filings a year per 100 renter households in 2016 to 2018, 0.93 ending in a judgement (about 8 filings a year; Eviction Lab)

Fair market rent

$970 a month for a two-bedroom (one-bedroom $770, three-bedroom $1,310): HUD's fiscal 2026 small-area fair market rent, the benchmark for housing vouchers in the Brown County metro area

Tax returns

1,450 returns for 2022 averaging $55,179 of adjusted gross income; 30% reported under $25,000 and 1% reported $200,000 or more; 20% claimed the earned income credit and 31% were filed by people 60 or older (IRS)

Subsidized housing

1 public housing development with 19 units (Brown Metropolitian Housing Authority); 3 tax-credit (LIHTC) properties with 91 low-income units, newest placed in service 2003; 1 HUD-assisted multifamily property with 33 assisted units (Section 8 and similar contracts). Housing vouchers used in private rentals are not counted

Banks

3 full-service bank branches from 3 banks inside this ZIP (FDIC); no credit union branch (NCUA)

Strain

46% of renters pay 30% or more of income in rent; 6.6% of households have no vehicle; the median renter spends 28.3% of income on rent; the median owner with a mortgage spends 14.3% of income on housing costs

Five-year survey averages centered on 2022; small ZIPs carry wide margins of error, and owner-estimated values run below sale prices in a rising market.

Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 five-year estimates by ZIP Code Tabulation Area; Eviction Lab (Princeton) tract estimates 2016 to 2018, weighted to the ZIP; HUD fiscal 2026 Small Area Fair Market Rents; IRS Statistics of Income ZIP data, tax year 2022; Mapping Inequality (University of Richmond), HOLC maps 1935 to 1940; HUD eGIS open data for subsidized housing; FDIC BankFind branch locations; NCUA credit union branch list, March 2026 · Census ACS · Eviction Lab · HUD data · IRS ZIP statistics · Mapping Inequality · HUD eGIS open data · FDIC BankFind · NCUA call report data

Houses and neighborhoods

Homes

968 one-family houses, 20 two-family houses, 4 three-family houses, 16 condominiums, 117 manufactured homes; also 13 apartment buildings and 348 other residential parcels

Lot

median 0.43 acres (condominiums left out)

The atlas has only the parcel list here so far: 1,125 homes with address, land-use class, lot size and, where the county's upload carries one, a link to each parcel's page at the county auditor, from OGRIP's Ohio Statewide Parcels (Brown County; upload of May 23, 2023). OGRIP's copy leaves 6% of the county's parcels without a land-use class, so the list misses some houses. Year built, size, values and sales come from each county auditor's own appraisal records, which are being added county by county outward from Franklin County. The Brown County Auditor keeps each parcel's full record.

Show neighborhoods and houses

The houses load when you search, pick a filter or press the button (the pack for this part of the state, a few megabytes). Zoomed in on the map, each house of this ZIP draws as a dot that follows the search and filters.

Source: OGRIP Ohio Statewide Parcels, Ohio Department of Administrative Services (Brown County, upload of May 23, 2023); residential parcels placed in ZIPs by the atlas; owner names are not carried · Allen County Auditor · Ashland County Auditor · Auglaize County Auditor · Butler County Auditor · Champaign County Auditor · Clark County Auditor · Clinton County Auditor · Coshocton County Auditor · Crawford County Auditor · Fairfield County Auditor · Fayette County Auditor · Franklin County Auditor · Greene County Auditor · Guernsey County Auditor · Hardin County Auditor · Highland County Auditor · Hocking County Auditor · Holmes County Auditor · Jackson County Auditor · Knox County Auditor · Licking County Auditor · Logan County Auditor · Lorain County Auditor · Madison County Auditor · Marion County Auditor · Miami County Auditor · Montgomery County Auditor · Morrow County Auditor · Muskingum County Auditor · Perry County Auditor · Pickaway County Auditor · Richland County Auditor · Ross County Auditor · Stark County Auditor · Tuscarawas County Auditor · Union County Auditor · Wyandot County Auditor · OGRIP Ohio Statewide Parcels · Athens County subdivisions, town plats and additions (Athens County Auditor GIS) · Cincinnati Community Council Boundaries · Cincinnati Statistical Neighborhood Approximations (SNA), 2020 · Clark County recorded subdivision plats · Clermont County recorded subdivision plats · Cleveland Heights neighborhoods · Cleveland Statistical Planning Areas (SPAs) / neighborhoods · Columbus Communities · Columbus Community Planning Areas · Coshocton County subdivisions (recorded plats and town additions) · Dayton neighborhoods · Dublin Civic Associations · Franklin County recorded subdivision and condominium plats · Hamilton (Ohio) 17Strong neighborhoods · Lima neighborhood associations · Logan County subdivision and condominium plats · Madison County subdivisions (recorded plats) · Morgan County subdivision, addition and town plats · Muskingum County subdivision plats · Perry County subdivisions and town additions (recorded plat names on the county engineer's parcels) · Richland County subdivisions and condominiums (recorded plats, county GIS) · Sandusky neighborhoods · Stark County recorded allotment (subdivision) and condominium plats · Toledo neighborhood associations · Union County subdivision plats

Building permits

Mix

1,058 single-family houses, 0 units in buildings of five or more, 51 in duplexes and small buildings

Value

$321.8 million of construction at the value declared on the permits

By year

2016: 70, 2017: 71, 2018: 92, 2019: 102, 2020: 108, 2021: 122, 2022: 118, 2023: 138, 2024: 147, 2025: 141, 2026 through July: 92

Caveat

1 of the ten years had fewer than 12 months reported by the permit office; the Census Bureau estimates the missing months, so those counts are partly or wholly imputed

Survey counts are permits issued, not houses finished, and cover new residential construction only: additions, remodels, garages and commercial buildings are not in the survey. Values are the applicants' estimates. Where a city runs the building department for its township neighbours, the city's figure covers them too.

Source: Census Bureau Building Permits Survey, annual place files 2016 to 2025 (new privately owned residential units authorized), for the permit-issuing jurisdiction where most of this ZIP's residents live · Census building permits

Home prices

Five years

+54% from 2020 to 2025

Last year

+3% in 2025

Since 2000

prices stand at 2.4 times their 2000 level

Series

tracked since 1998

Zillow's typical home value here is $187K (2026-07), up 1% over the year, up 15% over five years and up 72% over ten.

On the market (Realtor.com, August 2026): median asking price $199,900, $142 per square foot for a typical 1,590 sq ft listing; 11 active listings, 4 new this month; listings spend a median 51 days on the market; 0% of listings have cut their price. Realtor.com flags this ZIP's figures this month as low quality (11 active listings), so the asking price is not a market median.

The index follows the same houses through repeat sales and refinance appraisals on conforming mortgages, so it measures price change rather than the price level (the Homes card has the median value). Consumer prices rose about 36% from 2015 to 2025, so a gain under 36% is a loss in real terms.

Source: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index, annual five-digit ZIP all-transactions series (repeat sales and refinance appraisals of conforming-mortgage homes, developmental, not seasonally adjusted), latest release; Zillow Home Value Index (mid-tier, smoothed, seasonally adjusted) and Zillow Observed Rent Index by ZIP, Zillow Research · FHFA house price index · Zillow research data · Realtor.com data

Local taxes

Ripley-Union-Lewis-Huntington Local 88% of residents

21.6 effective mills (31.7 gross); $1,509 a year on a $200,000 home. Operating 16.2, improvements 1.5, inside millage 3.8.

Eastern Local 12% of residents

23.1 effective mills (35.5 gross); $1,616 a year on a $200,000 home. Operating 17.5, bonds 0.7, improvements 2.4, inside millage 2.5.

Municipal income tax

Ripley 1% (46% of residents); township residents outside a city or village pay none. Charged on wages and business profits where you work and, after credits, where you live.

School district income tax

Ripley-Union-Lewis-Huntington Local none (88% of residents), Eastern Local none (12% of residents). About a third of Ohio districts levy one.

Sales tax

7% combined rate in Brown County: Ohio's 5.75% plus county and transit levies.

A mill is $1 per $1,000 of taxable value, and taxable value is 35% of market value. Effective rates fall as values rise because Ohio holds most voted levies to the dollars first approved. County, municipal or township, library, park and vocational-school levies are added on the same bill and are not counted here.

Source: Ohio Department of Taxation, Aggregate Property Tax Rates by School District, tax year 2025 (composite DTE 515); weighted by the share of this ZIP's residents in each district; The Finder rate tables for municipal, school district and sales taxes, September 2026 · Ohio tax data series · The Finder

Who delivers the electricity

• Village of Ripley Electric Utility municipal46% of residentsRipley, Brown County
• Duke Energy Ohio investor-owned43% of residentsDuke Energy Corporation
• Adams Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. co-op11% of residentsBuckeye Power, Inc.

Village of Ripley Electric Utility solar and meters, 2024: no net-metered solar customers reported; 0% of its 928 meters are two-way smart (AMI) meters, 100% drive-by automated reads (EIA-861).

Duke Energy Ohio outages, 2024: the average customer lost power for 321 minutes (103 minutes leaving out major storm days), about 1.0 interruption a year.

Duke Energy Ohio standard service offer price, 2024: 15 cents per kWh, about $133 a month for the average home, for the 294,084 residential customers who have not chosen a supplier; the other 399,351 pay Duke Energy Ohio 7.81 cents per kWh for delivery plus their supplier's price (EIA-861).

Duke Energy Ohio solar and meters, 2024: 5,586 customers run net-metered solar (62.2 MW, 5,334 of them homes); 100% of its 778,136 meters are two-way smart (AMI) meters, 0% drive-by automated reads (EIA-861).

Adams Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. solar and meters, 2024: no net-metered solar reported under its own name (Buckeye Power, the co-ops' generation cooperative, files one Ohio net-metering row: 3,058 systems, 32.6 MW in 2024); 100% of its 7,748 meters are two-way smart (AMI) meters (EIA-861).

Energy burden: households here spend an average 3.2% of income on electricity, gas and other fuels (about $2,087 a year against $64,252 of income); the 50% of households below 80% of the area median income spend 7.4%, and 30% of households fall in groups averaging 6% or more, the usual line for a high burden (DOE LEAD Tool, 2022 update, built from 2018 to 2022 survey data).

Source: PUCO certified territories via ODOT · HIFLD retail service territories (EIA Form 861) · 2020 census blocks · outage statistics from EIA-861 Reliability, 2024 with 2023 where a utility skipped a year (SAIDI and SAIFI, IEEE 1366) · residential prices from EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers, net metering and advanced meters from the EIA-861 files of the same years · DOE LEAD Tool 2022 household energy burden by tract, apportioned into ZIPs by block population · PUCO electricity · ODOT territories service · EIA-861 · DOE LEAD Tool · HIFLD retail service territories

Natural gas here

39% of the 1,334 homes here heat with utility gas.

Utility gas 39%Electricity 40%Propane or LP 7%Oil, wood, other 15%

• Duke Energy Ohio regulated utility90% of residents, main companyDuke Energy Corporation

Pipes under the street: Duke Energy Ohio reported 6,116 miles of distribution main to PHMSA for 2025, 58% plastic and 0.0% cast iron or bare steel (the leak-prone materials); 1,532 hazardous leaks repaired in 2025.

PUCO lists 1 company operating in Brown County: Duke Energy Ohio.

Source: PUCO gas distribution companies by county, April 2026 · federal (EIA) territory polygons, 2016 · Census ACS 2020 to 2024 heating fuel · PUCO natural gas · HIFLD

Power plants

Nearest plant of any size: Brown County LFGTE Power Station, 10.6 mi (biomass, 4 MW).

0 plants within 10 miles totalling 0 MW.

Capacity is net summer capacity in megawatts (EIA), not output; a solar farm's 200 MW runs a quarter of the hours a gas plant's would. Small peaking engines and landfill-gas units count as plants.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Form 860 plant inventory via HIFLD (February 2025); USGS U.S. Wind Turbine Database and U.S. Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database; NRC emergency planning zones around Perry and Davis-Besse (residents inside the roughly 10-mile zone counted by 2020 census block); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · EIA-860 · HIFLD · USGS wind turbines · USGS solar · NRC emergency planning zones

Gas transmission pipelines

No transmission line crosses this ZIP.

Transmission lines run at hundreds of pounds of pressure and are inspected under federal rules; the distribution mains that actually feed homes are a separate, denser network not shown here. By mileage in this EIA layer Ohio's map is dominated by Columbia Gas Transmission and East Ohio Gas's intrastate lines; Texas Eastern and the Rover and Nexus lines built for Utica shale gas are among the other large interstate systems.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Natural Gas Interstate and Intrastate Pipelines layer (data last updated July 2025, pulled September 2026), via the ArcGIS Online copy maintained by Esri's Federal User Community; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center; lengths clipped to the ZIP boundary in an equal-area projection · EIA U.S. Energy Atlas · ArcGIS Online item

Incumbent telephone company

• AT&T Ohio86% of residentsIncumbent local exchange carrier
• Frontier North14% of residentsFrontier

ZIP codes and exchange areas do not share boundaries, so this ZIP is split between them.

Source: PUCO incumbent local exchange carrier service areas · 2020 census blocks · PUCO telephone

Internet

Served, 100/20 Mbps or better 73%Underserved, 25/3 to 100/20 11%Unserved, under 25/3 16%

Fiber reaches 2% of locations, cable 62%; a year earlier 69% were served.

Of 1,334 households, 62% subscribe to cable, fiber or DSL, 19% rely on a cellular plan only, and 9% have no internet at home.

Measured by Ookla speed tests, April to June 2025: typical fixed download 210.4 Mbps, upload 30 Mbps, 92 ms latency, across 54 tests from up to 38 devices in 27 map tiles.

Source: FCC Broadband Data Collection, June 2024 (availability) · Census ACS 2020 to 2024 (subscriptions) · Ookla Open Data, fixed-network speed tests by tile, 2025 Q2 (measured speeds) · FCC broadband map · Ookla open data · Census ACS

Cell signal

• AT&T4G 92% · 5G 82%
• T-Mobile4G 96% · 5G 86%
• Verizon4G 93% · 5G 40%

Registered towers: 3 antenna structures registered with the FCC inside this ZIP and 3 within 3 miles of its center; the tallest inside is a 308-foot lattice tower. Only structures over 200 feet or near airports must register, so most cell sites on short poles, water towers and rooftops are not counted.

Measured mobile speeds (Ookla speed tests, April to June 2026): typical download 162.8 Mbps, upload 19.6 Mbps, latency 28 ms over 10 tests from up to 7 devices in 7 map tiles.

Coverage as the carriers report it to the FCC for outdoor use at a stationary spot, by land area rather than by residents; indoor signal and rural hollows can be worse.

Source: FCC Mobile Broadband Data Collection via Esri Living Atlas (layer last updated November 2025, i.e. the June 30, 2025 filing round), carrier-reported outdoor coverage by hexagon, summed over the ZIP's land; FCC Antenna Structure Registration database, September 2026; Ookla open data mobile tiles, 2026 Q2 · FCC broadband map · FCC antenna registration · Ookla open data

EV charging

No public station inside this ZIP; the nearest of any kind is City of Maysville Electric Charging Station, 8 mi. 0 stations within 5 miles of the ZIP's population center, 0 with DC fast charging.

Level 2 adds roughly 20 to 30 miles of range an hour; DC fast charging fills most cars in under an hour. Listings are operator-reported and lag new openings and closures.

Source: NREL Alternative Fuels Data Center via the U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics (public, open electric stations, the posts at one site merged, restricted-access sites excluded), and chargers in neighbouring states near the border; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center; station list as of May 29, 2026 · Alternative Fuels Data Center · BTS Alternative Fueling Stations (NTAD)

Public transit

0 stops inside this ZIP; the nearest stop is 7.1 mi from the population center.

Only fixed-route systems that publish a GTFS feed appear; dial-a-ride and demand-response services do not, and a handful of small fixed-route systems publish no feed at all. The nearest stop may be across the state line, and the out-of-state set may be incomplete. Half a mile is roughly a ten-minute walk.

Source: USDOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transit Map stops (National Transportation Atlas Database, 2025 vintage, fetched September 2026), plus the Springfield, Lancaster-Fairfield, Knox County Transit, WayGo and BGSU Shuttle GTFS feeds; share of 2020 census block population within half a mile of a stop · BTS National Transit Map · BTS transportation atlas · Springfield City Area Transit GTFS feed · Lancaster-Fairfield Public Transit GTFS feed · Knox County Transit GTFS feed · WayGo GTFS feed · BGSU Shuttle GTFS feed

Walkability

Street grid

4 intersections per square mile, long blocks and country roads

Transit

no stop within three-quarters of a mile in the EPA's 2020 transit file

Mix of uses

employment mix 0.54 and mix of homes and job types 0.54 on the EPA's 0 to 1 scales, where 1 is the most varied

Car-free households

6.6% of households have no vehicle (Census ACS 2020 to 2024)

The index scores every block group on intersection density, distance to transit and how mixed its jobs and homes are, then ranks them against the whole country. It measures the street pattern, not sidewalks, safety or hills.

Source: EPA National Walkability Index (Smart Location Database 3.0, 2021) by census block group, population-weighted to the ZIP through 2020 census blocks; car-free households from Census ACS 2020 to 2024 table B25044 (the Homes card), or, where that is missing, the Smart Location Database's own 2014 to 2018 share weighted by households · EPA walkability index · Smart Location Database · Census ACS

Rail crossings

Brown County has logged 3 rail accidents since 2010, 3 of them derailments (FRA Form 54). Yard mishaps at walking speed dominate; main-line derailments are the rare, dangerous ones.

Train counts and speeds are the railroad's last inventory update. Crossings with only crossbucks rely on the driver; Ohio has averaged about 77 crossing collisions a year from 2010 to 2025 (FRA Form 57), between 64 and 87 in a year.

Source: Federal Railroad Administration, Grade Crossing Inventory (Form 71, current records); crossings whose point falls inside the ZIP boundary, closed crossings excluded; nearest crossing measured from the population-weighted center. Collisions are FRA Form 57 crossing incidents since 2010, placed by crossing id through the inventory's coordinates; train accidents are FRA Form 54 rail equipment accidents since 2010, placed by their own reported coordinates, counted one per incident rather than one per report (county totals from the same file). All three pulled from data.transportation.gov, September 2026 · FRA crossing inventory (Form 71, current) · FRA crossing incidents (Form 57) · FRA rail equipment accidents (Form 54) · FRA safety data · DOT open data

Bridges

Age

typical bridge built 1960, 11 built before 1950; oldest 1875, North Pole Rd. over Eagle Creek

Busiest

US 52 over Eagle Creek, 6,397 vehicles a day (2015 count)

Owners

county 31, state 10

Rated poor

Stephenson Road over Stream (1930, 951 a day); Ripley Rd over Red Oak Creek (1948, 268 a day) and 1 more

Ratings come from the inspection every bridge gets at least every two years; poor means deterioration that needs repair, not imminent danger. FHWA's file is a yearly snapshot with inspections through early 2025, so a bridge replaced, re-rated or closed since then still shows its old rating here; ODOT's TIMS bridge inventory carries the current one. Traffic figures are the average daily counts the bridge owners filed with the inventory; most Ohio counts date from 2015 and some are older. County engineers own most of Ohio's small bridges and ODOT the big ones.

Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory 2025 (Ohio file); structures whose point falls inside the ZIP boundary; condition from NBI items 58, 59, 60 and 62 (deck, superstructure, substructure, culvert) · FHWA bridge inventory · ODOT TIMS bridge inventory (live)

Traffic

Trucks

997 a day on US 52, 13% of its traffic

Driving

about 87K vehicle-miles a day on the 97 counted segments inside the ZIP; the typical segment carries 2,017 vehicles

Busiest local road

county road 49, 545 vehicles a day

Annual average daily traffic is both directions combined, averaged over the year. County, township and city roads are labelled by their route number, which ODOT uses instead of the street name. Most city streets have no count, so the busiest local road is the busiest counted one. Interchange ramps are left out of the busiest-road pick; a ZIP with nothing but ramps shows one labelled ramp and its ODOT number.

Road deaths: 1 person died in 1 crash inside this ZIP in 2020 to 2024 (1 motorcyclist); 0 involved a drinking driver and 0 happened in the dark. Too few people live here for a per-resident rate to mean much; deaths are counted where the crash happened, and many who die on through roads live elsewhere. (NHTSA FARS)

Source: ODOT traffic count segments, 2025 annual average daily traffic (ODOT TIMS); segments assigned to the ZIP holding their midpoint; NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System 2020 to 2024, crashes placed by their coordinates · ODOT TIMS traffic count segments · NHTSA FARS

Airports and trains

Nearest airfield

Brown County (GEO), Georgetown, 9.3 mi, public use

Amtrak

Maysville station, 7.7 mi (Maysville, KY)

Ohio's Amtrak stops are on the Floridian (Amtrak has temporarily combined the Capitol Limited with the Silver Star), the Lake Shore Limited and the Cardinal, all overnight trains; Cincinnati's only calls three times a week. Amtrak's Thruway bus stops, Dayton-Trotwood among them, are not counted as stations here. Airline service at Toledo and Rickenbacker is limited to a few routes; Youngstown-Warren has had no airline flights since 2018.

Source: FAA airport facilities and Amtrak stations via USDOT BTS National Transportation Atlas; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · BTS transportation atlas

Radon in this ZIP

10% of tests at or above EPA's 4 pCi/L action level · median 2.1 · highest 7.2

A ZIP average says nothing about one house; readings next door can differ tenfold. Test yours, and fix it at 4 pCi/L or more.

Source: odh.ohio.gov radon levels by ZIP code, tests since 2010, before mitigation · ODH radon program

Flood zones

5.5% of the ZIP's land is in that floodplain, and another 0.3% is in the 0.2% (500-year) zone; 4.5% of residents live in the 0.2% zone. Zones mapped here: AE, X (0.2%).

Design storms (NOAA Atlas 14): a 100-year storm here drops 6.5 inches in 24 hours (3.0 in a single hour, 4.7 in six); a 2-year storm 2.9, 10-year 4.2, 25-year 5.1, 500-year 8.6 inches in 24 hours. Storm sewers, culverts and detention ponds are sized from these numbers, and a "100-year" storm has a 1% chance every year.

Nearest river gauge: White Oak Creek above Georgetown OH, 12.7 mi away, draining 208 square miles. Record flow 19,900 cubic feet a second at a stage of 12.69 ft on 2018-09-09; the highest since 2016 was 19,900 on 2018-09-09 (USGS, 12 annual peaks, 2013 to 2025).

43 federal flood insurance policies are in force in this ZIP, covering $5.8 million of buildings; 98% of them are in a mapped high-risk zone; the typical policy costs $840 a year (about 3% of households).

102 federal flood insurance claims from this ZIP since 1978, 11 since 2010, paying about $1.3 million in all; the worst year was 1997 with 66 claims; 13% of claims came from outside the mapped high-risk zone.

Community status: Ripley takes part in the National Flood Insurance Program; flood map effective 09/29/10. Brown County's unincorporated areas take part in the National Flood Insurance Program; flood map effective 09/29/10.

Lenders require flood insurance on mortgaged homes in the 1% zone (zones A and AE). Block centers understate narrow floodplains in rural areas, so check the FEMA map for a specific address.

Source: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (effective flood insurance rate maps, levee centerlines) · 2020 census block centers · ZIP land area by polygon overlay, open water excluded; NOAA Atlas 14 precipitation frequency at the ZIP center; USGS NWIS annual peak flows; OpenFEMA NFIP policies in force by reported ZIP as of September 2026, NFIP redacted claims and the Community Status Book · FEMA flood hazard layer · FEMA Map Service Center · OpenFEMA · NOAA Atlas 14 · USGS stream gauges

Natural hazard risk

• Inland flooding98
• Landslide97

FEMA's expected annual loss here from all hazards: $3.8 million a year in buildings, crops and lives.

The index blends how often a hazard strikes, what it would cost, and how vulnerable and resilient the community is. Inland flooding (rivers and heavy rain) scores 98, tornado 60, winter weather 64.

Source: FEMA National Risk Index, census tracts, December 2025 release, weighted to this ZIP by 2020 block population · FEMA National Risk Index · NRI census tract layer (ArcGIS)

Climate

Temperature

51.6°F average; typical January low 17°, July high 86°

Hot and cold days

21 days a year reach 90°F; 128 nights fall below freezing, 4 below 0°F; 21 days never climb above freezing

Rain and snow

47.9 inches of precipitation on 88 days with a tenth of an inch or more; 17 inches of snow on 7 days with an inch or more

Degree days

5,620 heating, 778 cooling (base 65°F): the higher the heating number, the bigger the winter gas bill

Drought (U.S. Drought Monitor): since 2020 Brown County has spent 23 weeks in moderate drought or worse, and 57 weeks at least abnormally dry. The worst since 2000 was extreme drought in 2007/10; 7% of all weeks since 2000 were in drought. As of 2026-09-01: no drought.

Long run (NOAA, Brown County): the average year ran 53.9 °F over 1996 to 2025 against 52.1 °F over 1901 to 1930, 1.8 °F warmer (1.8 °F warmer than 1951 to 1980); the warmest year on record was 2024 at 56.1 °F, and 2025 came in at 53.6 °F. Precipitation averaged 47.0 inches a year lately against 43.6 a century ago, 8% more; the wettest year was 2011 with 59.6 inches, and 2025 brought 51.4. More rain in bigger bursts is what strains storm sewers and septic fields.

Stations: Ripley Exp Farm (2.5 mi, temperature and precipitation and snowfall; 10 years of snowfall record). Normals are thirty-year averages, so a single winter can run far above or below them; NOAA marks this snowfall normal provisional because the station record is too short or too patchy for a standard normal, and the temperature and precipitation figures here skip stations with under 10 years.

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020 (annual/seasonal and monthly); nearest reporting station to the ZIP's population-weighted center for each element; U.S. Drought Monitor county statistics · NOAA climate normals · NOAA climate at a glance · U.S. Drought Monitor

Air quality

Worst days

98th-percentile day 13.2 µg/m³ (24-hour standard 35)

Ozone

68 ppb, 4th-highest daily 8-hour reading at Batavia, 28.5 mi away (standard 70)

County AQI

Brown County has no monitor of its own, so EPA publishes no daily index for it

Air toxics

30 in a million lifetime cancer risk from outdoor air toxics across Brown County (EPA AirToxScreen 2020), mostly formaldehyde (19) and carbon tetrachloride (3)

Permitted sources

2 permitted air sources inside this ZIP under the Clean Air Act (1 major, Title V); none had a violation in the last 3 years. Notable: Kingfisher Development LLC - Stuart (major) (1 permanently closed source also on file) (EPA ECHO)

Air standards

Brown County meets every national air quality standard and carries no maintenance plan (EPA Green Book)

Ohio has 38 PM2.5 monitors, mostly in cities and near industry, so a rural ZIP borrows a reading from far away. 2025 includes Canadian wildfire smoke days. Air-toxics risk is EPA's modelled lifetime estimate for the county as a whole; EPA's national average is about 30 in a million, and formaldehyde, with the globally mixed carbon tetrachloride background and acetaldehyde, makes up most of it.

Source: EPA Air Quality System, 2025 annual summary files (monitor annual concentrations, county AQI) and the 2026 daily county AQI file; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center to the nearest monitor · EPA air data files · EPA AirToxScreen · EPA Green Book · EPA ECHO

Toxic and Superfund sites

3 facilities have reported toxic chemical releases or transfers to EPA's inventory from inside this ZIP, and 1 site appears in the Superfund program's list (most assessed and never listed).

22 EPA-registered facilities of all kinds in this ZIP: 1 brownfield site in the cleanup program (Ripley Foundation Property), 8 hazardous-waste handlers, 2 with air permits, 4 with water discharge permits.

State cleanup program: 5 sites inside this ZIP (Brown Co Rural Water Supply; Klump MHP; Ripley Foundation, 6210 Rankin Rd and more), 4 within 3 miles of the population center; the nearest is Ripley Foundation, 6210 Rankin Rd, 1 mi from the center, covenant not to sue, site assessment.

Solid waste: no licensed solid waste facility inside this ZIP; nearest Rumpke Waste Inc Brown County Landfill (municipal landfill), 10.7 mi from the center; 0 within 5 miles of the center (Ohio EPA licences, 2026). Compost sites and transfer stations are where most of a county's trash and yard waste actually goes.

Hazardous waste (EPA ECHO): 3 active RCRA handlers inside this ZIP; none had a violation in the last 3 years. Handlers include every business that generates hazardous waste, from body shops to chemical plants.

Underground tanks: 1 site with 2 registered underground storage tanks in use (47 more tanks closed over the years); 16 leaking-tank releases on record, 2 open at the time, 8 inside a drinking-water source protection area; 1 reported since 2015, the latest in 2016 (EPA UST Finder, Ohio records as of 2018-2019).

Drop-off sites: the nearest scrap tire drop-off is Rumpke SW Ohio Refuse Facility, Georgetown, 10.7 mi away (1 within 15 mi); the nearest household battery drop-off is Adams County Waste and Recycling, West Union, 19.6 mi away (Ohio EPA).

The inventory covers larger manufacturers and federal facilities that use listed chemicals; reporting means use or release, not a measured hazard to neighbours. Superfund status: on, proposed for, or deleted from the list after cleanup.

Source: EPA Facility Registry Service, Superfund (SEMS and NPL) sites and Toxics Release Inventory reporters, points inside the ZIP boundary; distance from the ZIP's population-weighted center · EPA Facility Registry · EPA Superfund sites · Ohio EPA cleanup sites · EPA UST Finder · EPA ECHO

Toxic releases

No facility inside this ZIP files a Toxics Release Inventory report. Only plants in listed industries with 10 or more workers that handle a listed chemical above its threshold must file, so small shops and most businesses never appear.

Source: EPA Toxics Release Inventory, basic data files for Ohio, reporting years 2020 to 2024 (2024 shown); facilities placed by their coordinates; dioxin rows reported in grams are left out of the pound totals · EPA TRI data files

Dams

Nearest high-hazard dam: Lake Waynoka Dam, 12.2 mi, condition satisfactory (recreation, 53 ft high, 7K acre-feet, built 1973, on Straight Creek, private owned).

No inventoried dam sits inside this ZIP.

"High hazard" describes what a failure would do downstream, not the dam's shape; Ohio rates more than a third of its inventoried dams in poor condition, mostly small private lake dams. Emergency action plans are required for high-hazard dams.

Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National Inventory of Dams (August 2026 release); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center. Condition assessments come from Ohio's dam safety program. · National Inventory of Dams

Disasters on record

Strongest nearby: F4 on 1968-04-23, 78.7 mi track (6 killed, 364 injured).

22 federal declarations for Brown County since Ohio's first in 1956 (16 major disasters): flood 7, severe storm 7, snowstorm 3. Latest: Covid-19 Pandemic (2020).

19 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more within 25 miles since 1970, the largest M3.1 9 km SSE of Manchester, Ohio in 1989.

Warnings since 2015 (National Weather Service, Brown County): 32 tornado warnings (2015: 3, 2016: 2, 2017: 1, 2018: 2, 2019: 2, 2020: 3, 2022: 3, 2023: 3, 2024: 3, 2025: 3, 2026: 7), 266 severe thunderstorm warnings, 45 flash flood warnings, 32 flood warnings and 186 flood advisories, 15 winter storm or blizzard warnings, 42 heat warnings or advisories, 4 extreme cold or wind chill warnings, 7 snow squall warnings; 1,224 products in all.

Mitigation grants (FEMA): 4 hazard mitigation projects in Brown County since 1997, worth $1.4 million ($533,973 federal), covering 48 properties; mostly property buyouts, mitigation planning. Largest: property buyouts for Village Of Aberdeen, $1.1 million (fiscal 1997).

Mitigated properties: FEMA money has treated 6 properties in this ZIP in 1997: 6 bought out and demolished. Buyouts turn repeatedly flooded lots into permanent open space.

Disaster aid to households: 4 households in this ZIP registered with FEMA after 1 declared disaster; 3 were approved for $21,542 of housing and other-needs help. Registrations by event: COVID-19 pandemic (2020): 4.

179 severe weather reports for Brown County since 2016 in NOAA's Storm Events log: 95 damaging thunderstorm wind, 34 river and street flooding, 22 flash floods, 18 hail. Largest hail 1.75 in (Apr 8, 2020); about $1.8 million in reported damage, the costliest being tornadoes on Jul 6, 2022 ($500K). Zone-wide advisories add 43 winter weather, 10 winter storms, 3 high wind.

Tornado tracks are straight lines from touchdown to lift-off; a near miss counts, a direct hit is not distinguished. Declarations include the 2020 COVID-19 emergency for every county; the latest, declared 2 May 2024 (DR-4777), covers the 14 March 2024 tornadoes in eleven counties, Indian Lake among them.

Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database 1950-2025; OpenFEMA disaster declarations summaries; USGS earthquake catalog (M2+, 1970 to date); NOAA Storm Events database 2016 to 2026 by county. Distances from the ZIP's population-weighted center. · NOAA SPC tornado data · OpenFEMA · USGS earthquakes · NOAA storm events · IEM warning archive

Spills and releases

What spilled

unidentified material or sheen (1), industrial, farm and drilling chemicals (1), food and grease (1)

Largest

about 200 gallons of bentonite / drilling mud in 2025, Ripley, into Redoak Creek

Reached water

3 of them reached a creek, river, ditch or storm drain (named or unnamed)

By year

2021: 1, 2022: 0, 2023: 0, 2024: 1, 2025: 2, 2026: 0

Anyone who spills more than a reportable quantity must call Ohio EPA within 30 minutes, so the log mixes a few gallons of diesel on a highway shoulder with real releases; the reported volume is the caller's first estimate. Every report in Ohio EPA's open-data layer carries coordinates; air-pollution complaints and calls where nothing was found are left out of this count.

Source: Ohio EPA Emergency Response spill reports (Spills2 open data), reports with coordinates inside the ZIP boundary, 2021 to date · Ohio EPA spills data · Ohio EPA Office of Emergency Response

Oil and gas wells

Status

0 producing, 1 plugged or abandoned, the rest drilled but idle, gas storage, orphan, expired permits or unknown

Ohio has drilled since 1860, so most wells here are old, shallow and plugged; unplugged orphans and injection wells are the ones that matter for groundwater. Well-head points can be a few hundred feet off for the oldest records.

Source: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management, public well inventory (well-head points); counts inside the ZIP boundary and within 1 mile of the ZIP's population-weighted center · ODNR oil and gas · ODNR GIS services

Abandoned mines

Undermined land can subside and old workings can discharge acid mine water; ODNR's Abandoned Mine Land program funds repairs, and mine-subsidence insurance is included automatically in 26 eastern counties and offered as an option in 11 more. Maps drawn before 1977 are incomplete, so "none" means none mapped.

Quarries, pits and working mines: nearest Eagle Crushed Stone (limestone, Hanson Aggregates, LLC, 1,522,673 tons sold), 18.8 mi away in Brown County; 0 within 3 miles, 0 within 10 (ODNR Industrial Minerals Locations, 2015, which includes surface and underground coal mines).

Source: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Mines of Ohio (abandoned underground mine maps, coal and industrial minerals, pre-1977), overlaid on the ZIP boundary in an equal-area projection · ODNR mines of Ohio · ODNR Geological Survey

Soils and septic

Soil

Pate silty clay, 25 to 35 percent slopes, eroded; Pate makes up 85% of the unit, 30% slope

Water

well drained; flooding none, ponding none

Septic

Very limited for a leach field under Ohio's rule

Basements

Very limited for dwellings with basements

Farmland

Not prime farmland

Elevation

863 feet above sea level at the ZIP's population center; Ohio runs from 455 feet where the Ohio River leaves the state to 1,549 feet at Campbell Hill

One point stands for the ZIP; soils change field by field, and a site evaluation is what the health department goes by. "Very limited" means the standard design will not work, not that nothing will.

Source: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, SSURGO soil survey via Soil Data Access; the map unit at the ZIP's population-weighted center and its dominant component's interpretations; Copernicus GLO-90 elevation model (via Open-Meteo) at that center · USDA Soil Data Access · Web Soil Survey · Open-Meteo elevation

Parks and public land

Ohio River Mussel Sanctuary

state conservation area, 33 acres inside the ZIP

John Parker House Park

local historic or cultural area, 2 acres inside the ZIP

Nearest state park: Adams Lake State Park, 15.8 mi.

Trails: 13.8 miles of named trails cross this ZIP: Buckeye Trail (6.9 mi, statewide trail); American Discovery Trail (6.9 mi, national trail); 13.2 miles more are proposed or planned (ODNR statewide trails inventory).

Open access as reported by each owner; local inventories vary, so a golf course or school field can be listed and a new park missed.

State lands nearby (ODNR facility layers): nearest boat ramp: Boat Ramp at Adams Lake State Park, 16.5 mi (0 within 5 miles); fishing access: Fishing Access at Adams Lake State Park, 16.6 mi (0 within 5 miles); swim area: Boat Swim Area at East Fork State Park, 24.3 mi (0 within 5 miles); campground: Campground/Campsite at East Fork State Park, 24.6 mi (0 within 5 miles).

Source: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States 4.1 (open-access fee, designation and easement polygons), overlaid on the ZIP boundary; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center to the nearest ODNR state park · USGS PAD-US · ODNR GIS services

Wetlands

337 acres forested/shrub wetland, 142 acres pond, 58 acres emergent wetland. Largest single wetland: 29 acres of freshwater forested/shrub wetland.

Vernal pools: 9 potential high-quality vernal pools covering 5.8 acres lie inside this ZIP (Ohio EPA screening): seasonal woodland pools that dry by summer, hold no fish, and are where salamanders and fairy shrimp breed.

High-quality wetlands: nearest is Edge of Appalachia (Cincinnati Museum of Natural History), 64 acres, 20.6 mi away; 0 within 10 miles.

Mitigation sites: nearest Carter Hollow Landfill, 10 mi away (a permittee-responsible site under an environmental covenant); 0 within 10 miles. These are wetlands and streams built or restored to replace ones filled under Clean Water Act permits.

Mapped from aerial photography, mostly 2004 to 2007 (the Lake Erie watersheds were re-mapped from 2021 imagery, a few areas date from 1976 to 2005 or 2014 to 2023), so small and seasonal wetlands are undercounted and ponds dug or filled since then are missing; a site delineation decides whether a lot is jurisdictional. Emergent means marsh, forested and shrub means swamp.

Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wetlands Inventory (Ohio geodatabase), freshwater wetland and pond polygons clipped to the ZIP boundary; lakes and river channels excluded, imagery mostly 2004 to 2007 (Lake Erie basin 2021) · USFWS wetlands inventory · Ohio EPA GIS services

Land cover

Developed

6.9%: 1% medium (apartments, small-lot houses), 2% low (houses on larger lots), 4.4% open space (lawns, parks, golf courses, road verges)

Farmland

38%: 8.2% row crops, 30% pasture and hay

Crops 2025

of 6,757 cropped acres, 61% soybeans, 7% corn, 2% wheat and small grains (plus 2% wheat followed by soybeans, counted under soybeans), 22% hay and alfalfa, 8% vegetables, orchards, fallow and other crops; 10,154 acres of pasture and grass (USDA Cropland Data Layer)

Forest

52%, plus 0.7% grass and shrub

Water and wetland

1.3% open water, 0.3% wetland

Paved and roofed

1% of the ZIP's surface is impervious; rain that lands there runs straight to a storm drain or stream instead of soaking in

Tree canopy

42% of the ZIP sits under tree canopy

Area

61.9 square miles of land

Land cover is classified from Landsat imagery at 30 metre pixels, so a house on a wooded lot can read as forest and a farm lane as open space. Stream health starts to slip once about 10% of a watershed is impervious, and is usually poor above 25%.

Source: National Land Cover Database 2021 (USGS and the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium): land cover, percent impervious surface and tree canopy at 30 m, summarised over the ZIP boundary · NLCD · USDA Cropland Data Layer · ODNR pre-settlement vegetation

People

Education

11.7% of adults 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 5.8% a graduate degree; 61% stopped at high school or earlier

Ages

21.9% under 18, 23.8% 65 or older

Race and origin

92.5% white, 1.6% Black, 1% Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% Asian, 4.5% other or two or more races

Born abroad

0.8% of residents

Veterans

6% of adults

Households

2.4 people per household on average; 31% of households are one person living alone, 35% married couples

Who lives here

33% of households include children, 39% someone 65 or over and 17.5% are a senior living alone; of people 15 and over, 40% are married, 29% never married, 18% divorced and 13% widowed

Poverty

21.3% of residents live below the poverty line, 39.6% of children and 7.1% of people 65 and over; the Gini index of income inequality is 0.41 (0 would mean every household earns the same, 1 that one household earns everything). County-wide, the Census Bureau's 2024 estimate is 15.2% (20.2% of children) with a median household income of $68,663 (SAIPE)

Ancestry

most often reported: German 16%, American 12%, English 10%

Movers

12.5% of residents lived somewhere else a year earlier, 3.8% in another state

Group quarters

159 of the 3,441 people counted here in 2020 (4.6%) lived in group quarters: 159 in nursing facilities (2020 Census)

Moving

2,224 people moved into Brown County between the returns they filed in 2022 and 2023 and 1,897 moved out (net +327, 33,458 stayed put); most arrivals came from Clermont, OH (899), Adams, OH (203), Hamilton, OH (197); most leavers went to Clermont, OH (750), Adams, OH (188), Hamilton, OH (149) (IRS)

Metro or rural

USDA rural-urban continuum code 1 of 9 for Brown County: metro - counties in metro areas of 1 million population or more

Nonprofits

30 tax-exempt organizations registered to addresses in this ZIP, 2 of them reporting $1 million or more in income; 80% are 501(c)(3) charities and 20% churches or religious groups; largest: Brown County Rural Water Association Inc ($7 million), Ripley Life Squad Inc ($1 million), Ripley Heritage Inc ($231,000) (IRS)

County growth

Brown County went from 43,681 people in April 2020 to 44,397 in July 2025 (+1.6%): 2,381 births, 3,129 deaths and a net +1,470 from migration since 2020; in 2025 alone a net 346 moved in from elsewhere in the U.S. and 12 arrived from abroad (Census estimates)

Since 1900

First counted in 1820 with 13,356 people and 27,332 by 1850, Brown County counted 28,237 people in 1900, 22,221 in 1950, 26,635 in 1970, 42,261 in 2000 and 43,681 in 2020; it peaked at 44,846 in 2010 (1.6 times its 1900 size, decennial censuses)

Commuting area: USDA classes this ZIP as a metropolitan fringe with light commuting to the core (rural-urban commuting area code 3 of 10, 2020 edition).

Race shares follow the Census categories, with Hispanic origin counted separately from race. Five-year averages centered on 2022. Moves count people on tax returns whose address changed county, so students and the very poor are undercounted.

Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 five-year estimates by ZIP Code Tabulation Area (tables B15003, B03002, B05002, B21001, B01001, B25010, B11001, B17001, B19083, B04006, B07003, C16002, B05006, B11005, B11007, B12001); county population estimates, vintage 2025; IRS exempt organization master file; USDA rural-urban continuum codes 2023; USDA ERS rural-urban commuting area codes 2020; 2020 Census PL 94-171 redistricting file, group quarters (table P5); IRS Statistics of Income county migration, returns filed in 2022 and 2023; Census SAIPE 2024 county poverty and median income; decennial county counts from the Census Bureau report Population of States and Counties of the United States 1790 to 1990 · Census ACS · Census population estimates · IRS migration data · USDA ERS county codes · USDA ERS commuting area codes · 2020 Census redistricting data · Census SAIPE · IRS exempt organizations

Jobs and commuting

Largest employers by sector: Health care and social assistance 268, Education 141, Manufacturing 89. 38% of local jobs pay over $3,333 a month, and 51% of residents' jobs do.

Businesses: 53 establishments with 581 employees and $21 million a year in payroll in 2023; most common: restaurants and hotels (10), other services (10), retail (8), health care and social assistance (4) (ZIP Business Patterns).

Workplace safety (OSHA): 5 inspections of workplaces in this ZIP since 2020 (1 after deaths or injury reports, 1 after complaints, 2 on referrals); most inspected: Surgical Appliance Industries, Inc (2), Caregiver, Inc (1), Evergreen North American Industrial Services (1). 1 worker death investigated since 2015 and 1 hospitalisation: 2022, employee is killed when caught in drill press.

County labor market: Brown County's unemployment rate was 3.7% in July 2026 (5.2% a year earlier), with 20,358 people in the labor force and 758 looking for work. Employers in the county paid an average of $898 a week in the first quarter of 2026 (up 6.3% on the year) to 7,949 workers at 787 establishments, employment up 0.2%; the largest private sectors are retail (1,055 jobs, $624 a week), restaurants and hotels (901 jobs, $381 a week), manufacturing (737 jobs, $1,031 a week). (BLS)

Working-age residents: 60.4% of people 16 and over here are in the labor force, and 8.1% of the civilian labor force was unemployed, averaged over 2020 to 2024 (Census ACS). Residents' most common occupations: management and business 12%, production 12%, office and administrative support 12%; 9% are self-employed and 11% work for a government.

Federal money: in fiscal 2025 the federal government obligated $337 in contracts performed in Brown County (under $1 a resident) and $134 million in grants ($3,071 a resident), plus $403,000 in loan guarantees and loans and $285 million in direct payments to people and organizations (USAspending; Social Security, Medicare and most benefits are not counted).

County economy: Brown County produced $904 million of real GDP in 2024 (2017 dollars, up 7.3% since 2019); personal income came to $50,147 a person in 2024, 73rd of Ohio's 88 counties and up 29% since 2019 before inflation (BEA).

County type (USDA ERS, 2015 codes): Brown County is a metro county with a nonspecialized economy, flagged for being a retirement destination.

How they get there: 80.3% drive alone, 11.4% carpool, 3.2% transit, 0.8% walk, 0% bike, 4.2% work from home (ACS).

Where residents work: 14% inside this ZIP; 12% in Georgetown (45121), 6% in Batavia (45103), 4% in Mount Orab (45154) (shares of the 1,249 residents with an Ohio workplace). 16% of all employed residents work outside Ohio, which the flow data does not track.

Unemployment-insurance records tie each job to a workplace and a home address; large employers sometimes report every worker at a headquarters, which inflates a few ZIPs. Self-employment, the military, the Postal Service, most farm work and a large part of federal civilian employment are missing (federal jobs come from OPM records that omit several agencies and, in practice, most of Wright-Patterson).

Source: Census Bureau LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, all jobs; populated census blocks assigned to ZIP Code Tabulation Areas by interior point, workplace-only blocks by the majority ZCTA of their block group or tract; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023; OSHA enforcement data via the Labor Department open data catalog; BLS county unemployment (LAUS) and wages (QCEW); Census ACS 2020 to 2024 labor force by ZIP Code Tabulation Area (B23025); USAspending federal awards by county, fiscal 2025; BEA county GDP and personal income · Census LEHD · BLS local unemployment · BLS QCEW · BEA county GDP · USAspending · OSHA enforcement data · Census ZIP Business Patterns · Census ACS · USDA ERS county typology · CDFI Fund Opportunity Zones

Upward mobility

Meaning

below the Ohio median: low-income children here mostly stayed in the lower half

Incarceration

1.94% of those children were in jail or prison on census day 2010

Coverage

100% of the ZIP's residents live in tracts with an estimate

The rank describes people born around 1980 who were children here in the 1980s and 1990s; neighbourhoods change, so it is a record of what the place did for one generation, not a forecast. Estimates for small tracts are noisy.

Source: Opportunity Atlas tract outcomes (Chetty, Friedman, Hendren, Jones and Porter, 2018; Census Bureau and IRS data for children born 1978 to 1983), population-weighted to ZIPs through 2020 census blocks · Opportunity Atlas · Opportunity Insights data

Social vulnerability

Socioeconomic status

67th percentile: poverty, unemployment, housing cost burden, no high school diploma, no health insurance

Household characteristics

77th: people 65 and over or 17 and under, disability, single-parent households, limited English

Racial and ethnic minority status

35th

Housing and transportation

74th: multi-unit and mobile homes, crowding, no vehicle, group quarters

The index ranks tracts on how much help their residents would need in a disaster or disease outbreak, using American Community Survey 2018 to 2022 figures. Ranks are within Ohio; a ZIP is the average of its tracts weighted by residents.

Source: CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index 2022, census tracts ranked among Ohio tracts, population-weighted to the ZIP through 2020 census blocks · CDC/ATSDR SVI

Community health

Weight and activity

obesity 42.9%, no leisure-time physical activity 38.2%

Chronic conditions

diabetes 17.6%, high blood pressure 47.7%, COPD 13.0%, cancer (any but non-melanoma skin cancer) 11.2%

Habits

current smoking 21.2%, binge drinking 13.2%, short sleep 40.3%

Mind

depression 26.7%, frequent mental distress 18.5%, feeling lonely 34.3%

Access

uninsured under 65 9.0%, yearly checkup 82.2%, dental visit 56.0%

Hardship

any disability 39.4%, food insecurity 17.7%

Heart and lungs

current asthma 11.7%, coronary heart disease 11.1%, stroke 5.4%, arthritis 39.2%

Keeping up

83.4% of adults with high blood pressure take medicine for it, 86.3% had a cholesterol check in 5 years

Social needs

housing insecurity 12.1%, no reliable transportation 9.0%, utility shut-off threat 9.4%, lacking emotional support 22.1%

Provider shortage

100% live in an area HRSA designates a primary care shortage area for its low-income residents (score 15 of 25); 100% live in an area HRSA designates a dental shortage area for its low-income residents (score 17 of 26); 100% live in a designated mental health shortage area (score 14 of 25) (HRSA; higher scores mean greater need)

Coverage (Census)

7.5% of residents have no health insurance (3.2% of children); 28% are on Medicaid and 47% have coverage through an employer

Disability (Census)

16.1% of residents report a disability, 41% of those 65 and over

County (County Health Rankings 2025): Brown County sits in health group 6 of 10 among U.S. counties for population health (1 is healthiest) and group 7 for community conditions. Premature death 12,369 (Ohio 9,740) years of life lost before 75 per 100,000; one primary care doctor for every 3,969 people (Ohio 1,328), one mental health provider for every 195 people (Ohio 286), one dentist for every 6,240 people (Ohio 1,535); preventable hospital stays 3,787 (Ohio 3,033) per 100,000 Medicare enrollees; injury deaths 118.9 (Ohio 100.7) and suicides 19.7 (Ohio 14.7) per 100,000; infant deaths 7.6 (Ohio 7.0) per 1,000 births; teen births 23.2 (Ohio 17.4) per 1,000 girls 15 to 19; children in poverty 22.5 (Ohio 17.5) percent; fine-particle air pollution 8.6 (Ohio 7.8) micrograms per cubic metre; no community water system in the county had a health-based drinking water violation in 2023. Drug overdoses: 15 deaths in the 12 months ending December 2025 (18 a year earlier, 34 at the highest since 2020, in the 12 months ending May 2022), about 34.3 per 100,000 residents against 20.8 statewide (CDC provisional counts).

Cancer (NCI State Cancer Profiles): Brown County records 505.6 new cancers a year per 100,000 people, age-adjusted, for 2018 to 2022 (Ohio 472.9, U.S. 448.6), about 299 cases a year, with the rate stable; cancer deaths 188.3 per 100,000 (Ohio 160.3, U.S. 145.4), stable. By site, per 100,000 (Ohio in parentheses): lung 86 (63.6), colorectal 50.5 (38.4), female breast 124.1 (133), prostate 88.7 (120.8), bladder 28 (21.8), leukemia 14.5 (13).

Medicare: 10,421 people in Brown County were on Medicare in 2025 (23% of residents): 8,906 aged 65 or over and 1,515 younger people with disabilities. 62% chose a Medicare Advantage plan, 18% also had Medicaid and 83% had Part D drug coverage; enrollment is up 3% since 2020 (CMS).

Modelled from a national telephone survey and the ZIP's demographics, so these are estimates of what residents would report, not counts of patients; small ZIPs carry wide margins.

Source: CDC PLACES, 2025 release (BRFSS 2023 and 2022, ACS 2019-2023), model-based ZCTA estimates of crude adult prevalence; County Health Rankings 2025 and CDC provisional overdose counts for the county; HRSA shortage area designations weighted to the ZIP; Census ACS 2020 to 2024 (insurance, disability); CMS Medicare Monthly Enrollment, county, 2025 · CDC PLACES · County Health Rankings · CDC overdose data · NCI cancer profiles · HRSA data

Life expectancy

Ohio's statewide figure for the same years was 77.6; the United States 78.7. Differences of a year or two between neighbouring ZIPs are within the estimates' error; differences of five or more are real and track income, smoking and access to care.

Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP), 2010-2015, census tracts weighted by 2020 block population · CDC USALEEP

Nearest hospital

25 beds · no trauma designation listed · 0 general or critical-access hospitals within 10 miles, 1 within 25.

Medicare rating: ★★★☆☆ · emergency room: yes · typical ER visit 189 minutes door to discharge (Ohio median 155)

Patients' verdict: 76% would definitely recommend it, 80% rated their stay 9 or 10 out of 10 (49 surveys).

Outcomes: 30-day death rates after heart failure 11.6% (about the national rate), pneumonia 14.8% (about the national rate), July 2022 to June 2025 (Medicare).

Community health center: 1 inside this ZIP, nearest Ripley School-based Health Center, Ripley, 1.6 mi away; 1 within 3 miles, 3 within 10. These federally funded clinics see anyone and charge on a sliding scale.

Veterans: nearest VA site is Georgetown VA Clinic, Georgetown (primary care outpatient clinic), 8.1 mi away; 1 VA site within 10 miles, 1 within 25.

Providers: 70 active health care providers list a practice address in this ZIP: 7 physicians, 1 mental health professional, 2 pharmacies, 5 nursing or assisted-living facilities, 3 home health or hospice agencies; most common physician specialties: Family Medicine (4), Internal Medicine (3) (NPPES registry, August 2026).

Dialysis: nearest Davita Us Grant Dialysis, Georgetown, 8.2 mi away, 12 stations, Medicare ★★☆☆☆ (DaVita); 0 within 5 miles, 1 within 15.

Source: federal HIFLD hospital inventory (via FEMA) with Medicare Care Compare star ratings, emergency-service flags, median emergency department times (measure OP_18b), HCAHPS patient survey results and 30-day death rates and patient-safety composites (Complications and Deaths file; a campus with no record of its own carries its parent hospital's figures, labelled); NPPES NPI registry, August 2026 monthly file, active records by practice ZIP; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center (some listings lag closures and mergers); HRSA health center sites, CMS dialysis facilities (geocoded with the Census geocoder) and the VA facility list · CMS Care Compare data · HIFLD · HRSA data · CMS NPI files

Nursing homes

1 certified home within 5 miles, 5 within 15; 1 inside this ZIP.

Medicare rating

★★★★☆ overall; inspections ★★★★☆; staffing ★★★★☆

Beds

140 certified

Ownership

For profit, corporation

Penalties

no federal fines or payment denials since 2023 (CMS)

In this ZIP: Ohio Valley Manor Care Center (4★, 140 beds).

Stars are Medicare's Care Compare ratings; a 1-star home failed inspections or is thinly staffed, and the abuse flag means a citation for harm in the past year or two. Ratings shift every quarter.

Source: Medicare Care Compare nursing home provider and penalties files (CMS), geocoded with the Census Bureau; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · CMS Care Compare data

Crime

Reporting

no 2024 incident data on file with the FBI

The sheriff is the local police in the county's townships and in villages without a force of their own; no other agency's figures cover these residents.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, NIBRS incident data for Ohio, 2024 (2023 for the trend): Group A offenses per reporting agency (violent = murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault; property = burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, arson), murders, rapes and assaults counted once per victim; the agency is the police department of the ZIP's largest local government (city, village or township) when it has one of its own, found in the FBI's 2023 and 2024 rosters or the USGS police station inventory, otherwise the sheriff of the ZIP's county; a rate needs at least six months of 2024 on file and is annualized from fewer than 12; the Ohio figures pool the 511 police departments and sheriff's offices with all 12 months on file · FBI Crime Data Explorer · USGS structures service

Police and post office

0 stations within 3 miles, 2 within 8.

Nearest post office: Ripley Post Office, 1.5 mi; 1 inside this ZIP.

Townships without their own department are policed by the county sheriff, whose office may be at the county seat; the state highway patrol covers the roads. The inventory lists stations, not patrol zones. It also misses some departments and still lists some that have closed; the atlas adds the departments that reported at least six months of 2024 crimes to the FBI but had no station in it, and drops the closed and duplicate records it found.

Source: USGS National Map structures inventory (police stations, post offices), with closed and duplicate records dropped, wrong names corrected and departments it lacks added from OpenStreetMap and the Census Bureau geocoder (September 2026); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · USGS structures service · OpenStreetMap · Census Bureau geocoder

Fire and EMS

1 station within 3 miles, 4 within 8.

Inside this ZIP: Ripley Fire Department.

Source: USGS National Map structures inventory (fire and EMS stations; most Ohio records last updated 2019 to 2022), Columbus- and Cleveland-area stations checked against the cities' station lists, September 2026. Indiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania stations near the line are included; Kentucky and West Virginia stations across the Ohio River are not. Straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center. Stations open or close without the inventory always catching up. · USGS structures service · Columbus fire stations · Cleveland fire stations

Public library

1 library within 3 miles, 3 within 8.

Open

about 54 hours a week

Building

6,425 square feet

Union Township Public Library

3 buildings, serves 14K people, 1.9 visits per resident a year, 217 programs, $887K annual income

Inside this ZIP: Union Township Public Library.

Museums: 3 inside this ZIP (John P Parker Historical Society, Ohio Tobacco Museum, Ripley Museum); nearest Ripley Museum, history museum, Ripley, 1.5 mi away; 3 within 5 miles, 8 within 15 (IMLS 2018 directory: museums, historical societies, gardens and zoos).

Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries Survey fiscal 2024 (outlet and system files) and Museum Data Files 2018 (museums); straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · IMLS Public Libraries Survey · IMLS Museum Data Files

Grocery access

Distance

80% of residents live more than half a mile from a supermarket, 70% more than 1 mile, 1% more than 10 miles

Without a car

25% live in a tract flagged for low income and low vehicle access; 6.6% of households have no vehicle (Census ACS 2020 to 2024)

Poverty

18.6% of residents below the poverty line

SNAP stores

no supermarket or grocery store inside this ZIP take SNAP, alongside 2 convenience stores, 1 other outlet (dollar, drug and discount stores); nearest supermarket or grocery store D&a Wholesale & Distribution, Maysville, KY (supermarket), 8 mi from the ZIP's center; 0 supermarkets and grocery stores within 3 miles (USDA, 2026)

SNAP households

16% of households received SNAP benefits in the past year (Census ACS 2020 to 2024)

Setting

0% of residents in urban tracts, across 3 tracts

A "supermarket" here is a large grocery store, supercenter or club; dollar stores and corner groceries do not count, and stores that opened since 2019 are missing from the distance figures; the SNAP store list is current. Rural distance flags mean a long drive, not necessarily hardship.

Source: USDA Economic Research Service, Food Access Research Atlas: 2019 Large Retailer Access Map (2010 census tracts, 2019 supermarket list; ERS's name for this file since July 2026), tract values weighted into ZIPs by 2020 census block population; SNAP store counts from USDA Food and Nutrition Service retailer locations, 2026; SNAP and no-vehicle households from Census ACS 2020 to 2024 · USDA ERS Large Retailer Access Map · USDA SNAP retailers · Census ACS

History

The history of this area has not been researched yet; the work runs county by county outward from Franklin County.

Source: Local history researched from Wikipedia, the 1880 county histories on archive.org, Ohio History Connection, National Register listings, Ohio historical markers, local historical societies and Wikimedia Commons, one file per municipality and township, loaded on demand; Native American history per county and statewide from the same sources and the nations' own histories · Ohio History Connection · Internet Archive (county histories) · Wikimedia Commons · Remarkable Ohio (historical markers)

Historic places

• Parker, John P., House (building) · National Historic Landmark
• Burgett House and Barn (building)
• Eagle Creek Covered Bridge (structure)
• and 6 more

Place names (USGS): 11 named communities (Stringtown, Hestoria, East Ripley, Hiett, Redoak and more); 17 named streams end here (Beetle Creek, Brady Run, Evans Run, Indian Lick and more); 1 named summit (Cedar Hill); 8 valleys, 6 ridges. Federal maps carry these names; the communities include hamlets and crossroads that never incorporated.

Listing recognizes significance and brings review of federally funded projects; it does not restrict a private owner. Historic districts count once, at their center.

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places spatial data (point file); listings whose point falls inside the ZIP boundary · National Register data · USGS GNIS

School district

• Ripley-Union-Lewis-Huntington Local88% of residentsLocal school district
• Eastern Local12% of residentsLocal school district

ZIP codes and school districts do not share boundaries, so this ZIP is split between them.

3 public schools inside this ZIP: Ripley Union Lewis Huntington Elementary School (3.5 stars); Ripley Union Lewis Huntington Junior High School (2.5 stars); Ripley-Union-Lewis-Huntington Senior High School (3 stars). Nearest to the population center: Ripley Union Lewis Huntington Elementary School (3.5 stars), 1.7 mi; 0 within a mile, 3 within 3.

1 private school inside this ZIP with 128 students in kindergarten through 12th grade (1 religious): St. Michael School (128 students, Catholic) (NCES Private School Survey 2023-24; the survey's student counts, here and per school, exclude prekindergarten).

Enrolled here: 722 students attend the 3 public schools inside this ZIP with 2023-24 enrollment on file; 13.3 students per teacher. 2 of them serve free meals to every student under the community eligibility provision. (NCES)

Enrollment: 609 residents attend kindergarten through 12th grade, 15% of them at private schools; 77 are in college or graduate school (Census ACS 2020 to 2024).

Money, fiscal 2023: Ripley-Union-Lewis-Huntington Local took in $13.3 million, 59% from the state, 29% local and 12% federal, and spent $18,105 per pupil on day-to-day operations for 702 students, 54% of it on instruction; capital outlay $0.2 million (Census school finance survey via NCES).

Child poverty: the Census Bureau's 2024 estimate puts 28% of Ripley-Union-Lewis-Huntington Local's school-age children below the poverty line (265 of 945 aged 5 to 17; SAIPE).

Source: Ohio school district boundaries (OGRIP, 2014 edition, via ODOT) · 2020 census blocks · public school locations from NCES EDGE, 2024-25 · enrollment and meals from the NCES Common Core of Data 2023-24 · private schools from the NCES Private School Survey 2023-24 · district finances from the Census F-33 survey, fiscal 2023 · child poverty from Census SAIPE 2024 · ODOT GIS · NCES EDGE · NCES Common Core of Data · NCES private schools · Census SAIPE · Census school finances (F-33)

School report card

Components

achievement 3 stars, progress 2 stars, gap closing 2 stars, early literacy 2 stars, graduation 3 stars, college and career readiness 4 stars

Achievement

performance index 70.6% of ODE's maximum score for the year (the average of the top 2% of district scores, not the highest score possible) (score 77.5, 78.1 the year before)

Graduation

97.3% of the class of 2024 graduated in four years; 79.5% of that class (graduates or not) showed college, career, workforce or military readiness

Spending

$14,213 per pupil in 2023-24 against $12,759 statewide

Teachers

average salary $63,078, 17 years of experience, 71.1% with a master's degree, 3.9% in their first years of teaching

Enrollment

679 students in 2024-25

Three stars means the district meets state standards, five that it significantly exceeds them, one that it needs significant support. Achievement stars follow family income closely; the progress component (growth from year to year) is the fairer measure of teaching. Charter and private schools are not in the district figures.

Source: Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, 2024-2025 School Report Cards (district overview, achievement, expenditures per pupil and educator files), for the district where most of this ZIP's residents live · Ohio school report cards

Colleges

Brown & Clermont Adult Career Campuses is a public career school with 156 students over the 2023-24 year.

0 institutions within 10 miles, 1 within 25.

Next nearest: University of Cincinnati-Clermont College (30.1 mi).

Universities, community colleges, career schools and private colleges all count; branch campuses appear only where IPEDS lists them separately. Graduation rates follow first-time full-time students for 150% of normal time.

Source: NCES IPEDS 2024 directory, 12-month enrollment 2023-24, tuition and fees 2023-24 and graduation rates for the 2017 entering cohort at four-year institutions and the 2020 cohort at two-year ones; straight-line miles from the ZIP's population-weighted center · NCES IPEDS

Local government

• Ripley (village)46% of residentsVillage
• Union Township, Brown County33% of residentsTownship
• Huntington Township, Brown County8% of residentsTownship
• Jefferson Township, Brown County7% of residentsTownship
• Byrd Township, Brown County6% of residentsTownship

ZIP codes and municipal and township boundaries do not share boundaries, so this ZIP is split between them.

Unauditable: the Auditor of State notified Union Township on 10/04/2023 that its books for 01/01/2021 to 12/31/2022 were in no condition to audit; an entity stays on that list until an audit is released.

Source: ODOT municipal corporation and township boundaries · 2020 census blocks · Ohio EPA grants awarded in 2025 (OEPA_Achievements map service) · Auditor of State unauditable entities list · ODOT GIS · Auditor of State · Ohio EPA grants (OEPA_Achievements)

Who represents this ZIP

U.S. Senate: Bernie Moreno (R), Jon Husted (R)

• David Taylor RU.S. House OH-2Amelia · since 2025 · site
• Terry Johnson ROhio Senate 14McDermott · since 2019 · site
• Justin Pizzulli ROhio House 90Franklin Furnace · since 2023 · site

Source: ODOT district boundaries · members from the U.S. House, Ohio Senate and Ohio House directories, September 2026 · U.S. House · Ohio Senate · Ohio House · ODOT GIS