Iron Mountain, Michigan

Iron Mountain population, 2020 to 2024

Iron Mountain added 15 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.2%. In the latest year it moved by -26. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 57th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Iron Mountain is 62% of it.

Iron Mountain covers 7.54 square miles of land and 0.67 of water, for 998 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Iron Mountain is less dense than the typical town.

What county Iron Mountain is in

All of Iron Mountain's residents live in Dickinson County, which had 25,995 residents in 2024. Iron Mountain holds 28.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Iron Mountain

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Iron Mountain by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49801. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Iron Mountain is

The Census internal point of Iron Mountain is at 45.826900, -88.059400. Lansing, the capital, is 275.1 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Escanaba, MI (12,296 people), 47.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Green Bay, WI, 90.3 miles away.

Daylight in Iron Mountain

At 45.83° N, Iron Mountain gets about 15 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 40 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 04 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Iron Mountain

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Kingsford, 2.4 miles away, with 5,125 people.