County Iron County, Wisconsin - Population, Income & Demographics

The median income of households in Iron County, Wisconsin was $59,058. An estimated 5.1% of households had income below $10,000 a year and 3.2% had income of $200,000 or more.

An estimated 63.5% of households received earnings. An estimated 49.7% of households received Social Security and an estimated 38.2 % of households received retirement income other than Social Security. The average income from Social Security was $24,900. These income sources are not mutually exclusive; that is, some households received income from more than one source.

In 2019-2023, 11.6 % of people were in poverty. An estimated 14.4% of children under 18 were below the poverty level, compared with 8.9% of people 65 years old and over. An estimated 12.4% of people 18 to 64 years were below the poverty level.

In 2019-2023, 13.7 % of households received SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). An estimated 27% of households that received SNAP had children under 18, and 46.8% of households that received SNAP had one or more people 60 years and over. An estimated 22.8% of all households receiving SNAP were families with a female householder and no spouse present.

Among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in Iron County, Wisconsin in 2019-2023, 94.1% had health insurance coverage and 5.9% did not have health insurance coverage. Private coverage was 67.1% and public coverage was 49.9%, respectively. The percentage of children under the age of 19 with no health insurance coverage was 7.2%.

In 2019-2023, Iron County, Wisconsin had a total population of 6,164 - 3,039 (49.3%) females and 3,125 (50.7%) males. The median age was 55.9 years. An estimated 15.4% of the population was under 18 years, 20.9% was 19 to 44 years, 30.3% was 45 to 64 years, and 32 % was 65 years and older.

In 2019-2023, there were 2,949 households in Iron County, Wisconsin. The average household size was 2.05 people.

Married-couple households made up 47.9% of the households in Iron County, Wisconsin while cohabiting couple households made up 10% of households. Female householders with no spouse or partner present were 20% of all households, while 22.1% of households had male householders with no spouse or partner present. Some households had one person, as 17.7% of households were male householders living alone, and 13.7% were female householders living alone, for a total of 31.4% of all households.

In Iron County, Wisconsin, 17.6% of all households had one or more people under the age of 18; 46% of all households had one or more people 65 years and over.

In 2019-2023, an estimated 98.7% of the people living in Iron County, Wisconsin were U.S. natives. 44.3% of the Iron County, Wisconsin population were living in the state where they were born.

Approximately 1.3% of Iron County, Wisconsin residents in 2019-2023 were foreign-born. 69.5% of foreign-born were naturalized U.S. citizens and an estimated 86.6 % entered the country before the year 2010.

Foreign-born residents of Iron County, Wisconsin come from different parts of the world. The bar graph below displays the percentage of foreign-born from each world region of birth in 2019-2023 for Iron County, Wisconsin.

Among people at least five years old living in Iron County, Wisconsin in 2019-2023, 2.2 % spoke a language other than English at home. Spanish was spoken by 0.8% of people at least five years old; 0.8% reported that they did not speak English "very well."

In 2019-2023, 91.4 % of the people at least one year old living in Iron County, Wisconsin were living in the same house one year earlier.

In 2019-2023, 95.4 % of people 25 years and over had at least graduated from high school and 23.4% had a bachelor's degree or higher. An estimated 4.6% did not complete high school.

The total school enrollment in Iron County, Wisconsin was 877 in 2019-2023. Nursery school enrollment was 28 and kindergarten through 12th grade enrollment was 704. College or graduate school enrollment was 145.

In Iron County, Wisconsin, among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in 2019-2023, 16 % reported a disability. The likelihood of having a disability varied by age - from 4.2% of people under 18 years old, to 14.1% of people 18 to 64 years old, and to 25.2% of those 65 and over.

In Iron County, Wisconsin, 50.6 % of the population 16 and over were employed; 47.8% were not currently in the labor force.

An estimated 71% of the people employed were private wage and salary workers; 18.2% were federal, state, or local government workers; and 10.6 % were self-employed in their own (not incorporated) business.

In 2019-2023, the civilian employed population 16 years and older in Iron County, Wisconsin worked in the following industries:

An estimated 81.3% of Iron County, Wisconsin workers drove to work alone in 2019-2023, and 9.2% carpooled. Among those who commuted to work, it took them on average 20.8 minutes to get to work.

In 2019-2023, Iron County, Wisconsin had a total of 5,572 housing units. Of these housing units, 90.7% were single-family houses either not attached to any other structure or attached to one or more structures (commonly referred to as "townhouses" or "row houses"). 6.7% of the housing units were located in multi-unit structures, or those buildings that contained two or more apartments. 2.5% were mobile homes, while any remaining housing units were classified as "other," which included boats, recreational vehicles, vans, etc.

5.2% of the housing inventory was comprised of houses built since 2010, while 20.8% of the houses were first built in 1939 or earlier. The median number of rooms in all housing units in Iron County, Wisconsin was 5.3 rooms, and of these housing units 53.4% had three or more bedrooms.

In 2019-2023, Iron County, Wisconsin had 2,949 housing units that were occupied or had people living in them, while the remaining 2,623 were vacant. Of the occupied housing units, the percentage of these houses occupied by owners (also known as the homeownership rate) was 86.9% while renters occupied 13.1%. The average household size of owner-occupied houses was 2.07 and in renter-occupied houses it was 1.91.

6.1% of householders of these occupied houses had moved into their house since 2021, while 16% moved into their house in 1989 or earlier. Households without a vehicle available for personal use comprised 4.2% and another 24.7% had three or more vehicles available for use.

The following chart provides the primary fuel used to heat houses in Iron County, Wisconsin:

In 2019-2023, the median property value for owner-occupied houses in Iron County, Wisconsin was $155,200.

Of the owner-occupied households, 48.1 % had a mortgage. 51.9% owned their houses "free and clear," that is without a primary mortgage or loan on the house. The median monthly housing costs for owners with a mortgage was $1,182 and for owners without a mortgage it was $501.

For renter-occupied houses, the median gross rent for Iron County, Wisconsin was $640. Gross rent includes the monthly contract rent and any monthly payments made for electricity, gas, water and sewer, and any other fuels to heat the house.