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Iron Station CDP, North Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Iron Station CDP is a Census CDP of 934 people across 2.36 square miles of land, in Lincoln County. Median household income is $77,083, 91.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $571,200.
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Iron Station
What Iron Station is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area2.36 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land395 plus or minus 186
- County holding the largest share of its areaLincoln County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How many people live in Iron Station
- Population934 plus or minus 439
- Median age43.4 plus or minus 18.8
- Population under 18375 plus or minus 164
- Share under 1840.1 percent plus or minus 25.8
- Population 65 and over221 plus or minus 118
- Share 65 and over23.7 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Households319 plus or minus 157
- Family households270 plus or minus 149
- Share of households that are families84.6 percent plus or minus 21.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Iron Station
- Median household income$77,083 plus or minus $28,351
- Per capita income$24,430 plus or minus $8,283
- Civilian labor force256 plus or minus 179
- Employed256 plus or minus 179
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over559 plus or minus 288
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher80.7 percent plus or minus 55.3
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher18.6 percent plus or minus 18.0
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Iron Station
- Housing units405 plus or minus 167
- Occupied units319 plus or minus 157
- Vacant units86 plus or minus 101
- Vacancy rate21.2 percent plus or minus 23.4
- Owner occupied291 plus or minus 149
- Renter occupied28 plus or minus 48
- Ownership rate91.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$158,700 plus or minus $116,415
- Single family units111 plus or minus 76
- Share single family27.4 percent plus or minus 15.1
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes294 plus or minus 157
- Median year structure built1998
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Iron Station gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute256 plus or minus 179
- Commuting under 15 minutes39 plus or minus 63
- Share commuting under 15 minutes15.2 percent plus or minus 22.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more106 plus or minus 110
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more41.4 percent plus or minus 32.0
- Drove alone100.0 percent
- Carpooled0.0 percent
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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SBA loans in Iron Station (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$571,200
- Average approval$571,200
- Median approval$571,200
- Ninetieth percentile approval$571,200
- Largest approval$571,200
- Jobs supported15
- Jobs per approval15.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Lincoln County, not Iron Station
Lincoln County context, not Iron Station figures
These are Lincoln County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Iron Station measurements.
- Establishments in Lincoln County2,081
- Employment at those establishments, Lincoln County23,461
- Covered employment, Lincoln County28,110
- Average annual pay, Lincoln County$55,677
- Average weekly wage, Lincoln County$1,071
- Housing units permitted, Lincoln County697
- Of those, single family, Lincoln County697
- County product, 2024, Lincoln County$4,744,844,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lincoln County9.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lincoln County$87,755
Every figure in this section is published for Lincoln County as a whole and is not a measurement of Iron Station. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Iron Station questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Iron Station, North Carolina?
934, in 319 households. Iron Station CDP covers 2.36 square miles of land, which is 395 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Iron Station in?
Lincoln County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Iron Station?
$77,083. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $158,700. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Iron Station businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $571,200, across 1 lenders, median approval $571,200. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Iron Station, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Iron Station borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Iron Station. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Iron Station figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lincoln County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Iron Station.
Is zoning published for Iron Station?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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