Ironwood, MI population, income and ZIP codes

Ironwood city is a mid-size town in Michigan, with 5,004 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #180 of 745 ranked by population — larger than 75% of them. The median age here is 50.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Ironwood city earn a median of $37,191 a year, 52.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 40% below the $61,715 median for the 438 Michigan cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 14.9% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Ironwood city is valued at $74,900, 75.3% below the national figure and 55% below the $166,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $555 a month, 60.5% below the national figure, or roughly $6,660 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 72.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 50.4 puts Ironwood city well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.