Ironwood, MI
Single-footprint Census roll-up for Ironwood, MI: 1 USPS ZIP, population 7,945. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.
Source:
ACS city ledger plate
Sheet IRONWOOD-MI · Ironwood, MI 1 ZIPs · 7,945 pop · #22717/25278 · Gogebic County
INC-MID · RANK-BOTTOM · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-ONE · OWN-MID · POP-TOWN · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-LOW
- INC-MID $46,606
- RANK-BOTTOM #22717/25278
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ramsay
- BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
- OWN-MID 77% owners
- POP-TOWN 7,945
- SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
- HOME-LOW $104,000
Nearest income peer: Ramsay, MI (+ $894 income $)
Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Ironwood
Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Ironwood on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.
- Ironwood · this city · lowest
Ironwood · this city · lowest
$46,606 median HH income
- Ramsay · near
Ramsay · near
$47,500 median HH income
- Marenisco · near
Marenisco · near
$48,750 median HH income
- Wakefield · near
Wakefield · near
$55,759 median HH income
- Bessemer · near
Bessemer · near
$57,000 median HH income
- Watersmeet · highest
Watersmeet · highest
$67,188 median HH income
What this shows County-sharing peers only, not the full US city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the mosaic is wide.
National city placement
According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Ironwood, MI sits among US cities with one of the lowest household incomes among US cities, on a town-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.
- 10th pct
- household income vs 25,278 US cities
- 7,945
- city population (Census)
- 1
- USPS ZIP codes covered
- $46,606
- avg ZIP median income
Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.
Lower-income footing on only 1 ZIP ($46,606 average) · poverty 15.1%. The primary code (49938) carries the ACS household fields that matter.
Owner-occupancy sits in a mixed band (77.4%) - check the ZIP page's tenure split before treating Ironwood as a pure owner town.
Within Michigan, Comins is the closest lower-income city and Falmouth the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Ironwood.
ZIP Codes in Ironwood, MI
These ZIP codes sit in Gogebic County, which covers 6 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Ironwood. See the Gogebic County roll-up →
Every one of the 5 cities sharing Gogebic County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Ironwood, Bessemer, Wakefield and Marenisco among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Watersmeet marks the far end of that range at $67,188, 44% above Ironwood.
| ZIP Code | Population | Density | Timezone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 49938 | 7,945 | 13 | America/Menominee |
On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Ironwood, then BLS wages if you need the labor-market side of the same small geography.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates (2023). Verify with Census Bureau →
Source: HUD USPS Crosswalk (ZIP-to-county mapping) and Source: simplemaps.com (ZIP coordinates & timezones). Verify with HUD →
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