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Iron City CDP, Tennessee: commercial real estate data.
Iron City CDP is a Census CDP of 282 people across 0.69 square miles of land, in Lawrence County. 80.9 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Iron City
What Iron City is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area0.69 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land408 plus or minus 190
- County holding the largest share of its areaLawrence 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 City
- Population282 plus or minus 131
- Median age33.2 plus or minus 20.5
- Population under 1891 plus or minus 68
- Share under 1832.3 percent plus or minus 19.0
- Population 65 and over43 plus or minus 34
- Share 65 and over15.2 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Households110 plus or minus 37
- Family households45 plus or minus 26
- Share of households that are families40.9 percent plus or minus 19.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Iron City
- Per capita income$16,179 plus or minus $7,044
- Civilian labor force104 plus or minus 64
- Employed92 plus or minus 62
- Unemployed12 plus or minus 19
- Unemployment rate11.5 percent plus or minus 16.8
- Adults 25 and over160 plus or minus 64
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher85.6 percent plus or minus 45.8
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher0.0 percent
- 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 City
- Housing units110 plus or minus 37
- Occupied units110 plus or minus 37
- Vacant units0
- Vacancy rate0.0 percent
- Owner occupied89 plus or minus 29
- Renter occupied21 plus or minus 31
- Ownership rate80.9 percent plus or minus 37.9
- Median owner-occupied home value$41,000 plus or minus $34,548
- Single family units64 plus or minus 34
- Share single family58.2 percent plus or minus 23.9
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes46 plus or minus 40
- Median year structure built1990
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Iron City gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute56 plus or minus 32
- Commuting under 15 minutes16 plus or minus 25
- Share commuting under 15 minutes28.6 percent plus or minus 42.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more3 plus or minus 15
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more5.4 percent plus or minus 26.4
- Drove alone47.8 percent plus or minus 45.1
- Carpooled13.0 percent plus or minus 12.4
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home39.1 percent plus or minus 34.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lawrence County, not Iron City
Lawrence County context, not Iron City figures
These are Lawrence 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 City measurements.
- Establishments in Lawrence County788
- Employment at those establishments, Lawrence County9,681
- Covered employment, Lawrence County11,816
- Average annual pay, Lawrence County$45,770
- Average weekly wage, Lawrence County$880
- Housing units permitted, Lawrence County27
- Of those, single family, Lawrence County18
- County product, 2024, Lawrence County$1,584,901,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lawrence County5.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lawrence County$54,053
Every figure in this section is published for Lawrence County as a whole and is not a measurement of Iron City. 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.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- The American Community Survey does not publish a median household income for this place, which happens where the sample is too small to support one.
- 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 City questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Iron City, Tennessee?
282, in 110 households. Iron City CDP covers 0.69 square miles of land, which is 408 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Iron City in?
Lawrence County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
Are the county figures on this page Iron City figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lawrence 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 City.
Is zoning published for Iron City?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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