Iron River, Michigan

Iron River population, 2020 to 2024

Iron River added 17 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by -4.

Iron River covers 6.74 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 448 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Iron River is less dense than the typical town.

What county Iron River is in

All of Iron River's residents live in Iron County, which had 11,709 residents in 2024. Iron River holds 25.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Iron River

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Iron River by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 49935. 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 River is

The Census internal point of Iron River is at 46.095900, -88.636600. Lansing, the capital, is 307.4 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kingsford, MI (5,125 people), 32.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Green Bay, WI, 113.3 miles away.

Daylight in Iron River

At 46.10° N, Iron River gets about 15 h 46 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 38 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 08 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Iron River

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Crystal Falls, 15.1 miles away, with 1,601 people.