Fort Ripley TownshipMN
It is a town of 1,081 residents in Minnesota.
Is Fort Ripley Township a good place to live?
The best of Fort Ripley Township’s subject grades is an A− for the outdoors; the weakest is a C− for hazard risk. Only 39 of Minnesota’s 575 towns score lower on hazard risk. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 72% of U.S. towns. No town among the 274 in Minnesota we compare has a lower share of working residents who work in town than Fort Ripley Township. 35% of the land in Fort Ripley Township is conserved, where Minnesota’s towns sit at 4.7% and U.S. towns at 4.3%. Only 28 of Minnesota’s 574 towns score lower on history. The biggest place to walk is Crow Wing State Park, 1,555 acres with 5 miles of trail. Fort Ripley Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
1,081 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
How Fort Ripley Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Minnesota), ordered by how far Fort Ripley Township is from typical.
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Moving to Fort Ripley Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Fort Ripley Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Fort Ripley Township.
Conserved land covers nearly a third of Fort Ripley Township
For Fort Ripley Township, the concentration of trails is 0.7 miles per square mile. Trails total 17 miles in 2 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Crow Wing State Park | 5 mi | 1,555 |
| 2. Little Nokasippi River Wildlife Management Area | 0.6 mi | 453 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Most of Fort Ripley Township’s workers commute out: the town has 0.2 jobs for each of them
In Fort Ripley Township, the typical journey to work is 31 minutes. Half of commuters travel less than 14 miles. Fort Ripley Township: just over one in ten residents live below the poverty line. The top destinations are Brainerd (25%), Baxter (16%) and St. Cloud (5%).
| Fort Ripley Township | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 31 minutes | 23 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 8.9% | 14% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 7% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $75,000 | $90,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
High risk in Fort Ripley Township, with inland flooding at the top
On expected storm and flood damage, Fort Ripley Township sits above 76% of U.S. communities. FEMA puts 66% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 19% to cold waves. Federal disaster aid has reached households in Fort Ripley Township once, in 2012.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Fort Ripley Township ranks healthier than 66% of the country’s towns
The share of adults in Fort Ripley Township who report frequent physical distress: 12%. In Fort Ripley Township, 19% of adults binge drink, and 31% sleep under 7 hours.
| Fort Ripley Township | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 30% | 33% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 16% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 30% | 36% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 75% | 75% | 79% |
| What stands out | Fort Ripley Township | MN |
|---|---|---|
| More smokers | 15.9% | 13.1% |
| More adults with heart disease | 7% | 5.9% |
| More adults with COPD | 6.3% | 5.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The climate in Fort Ripley Township brings snowy winters and pleasant summers
Fort Ripley Township’s peak summer temperature comes in at 81°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The typical home in Fort Ripley Township is valued at about $391K
Over the 12 months to September 2026, the typical home gained 4.3% in value. 95% of households live in a home they own in Fort Ripley Township. For Fort Ripley Township, the median rent is $1,232 a month.
| Fort Ripley Township | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 95% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,232 a month | $1,196 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Fort Ripley Township
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Fort Ripley Township
About 3 of every 100 Fort Ripley Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Minnesota.
100% of working residents leave Fort Ripley Township for work
Where Fort Ripley Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Fort Ripley Township
City in Minnesota, United States
Fort Ripley is a city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States, near the confluence of the Mississippi and Nokasippi Rivers. As of the 2020 census, Fort Ripley had a population of 84. It is part of the Brainerd Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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- Area
- 1.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,168 ft
- ZIP code
- 56449
- Area code
- 218
Questions about Fort Ripley Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Fort Ripley Township, MN expensive?
That is 5.5 years of the area's median household income ($71,384 across the Brainerd, MN area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.