Iron Station has 2.1 jobs for every working resident: 835 people commute in to work
841 jobs are based in Iron Station, against 392 working residents. Only 2% stay in Iron Station for work; outside it, Charlotte is the main destination (27%, 25 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, against 16% across North Carolina.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Iron Station, in brief
Iron Station makes and builds things
91% of the jobs based in Iron Station are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Iron Station residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. The jobs ↓
Iron Station is where the jobs are
Iron Station has 841 jobs, 2.2 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,400 people are in town, 48% more than the 930 who live here. Day and night ↓
Iron Station’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Iron Station is Charlotte, 25 miles away as the crow flies. 27% of working residents (105) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 392 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
In Iron Station, 91% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Iron Station, 2013 → 2023: 734 → 841. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Iron Station’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Iron Station fills up on a workday
On a workday 386 residents head out to work and 6 work right here.
About 1,400 people are in Iron Station on a workday afternoon, 48% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Short hops and long hauls from Iron Station
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Who travels to work in Iron Station, and from where
Where Iron Station clocks in
27% of workers
6% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
About 28 minutes to work from Iron Station
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Iron Station workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 256 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across North Carolina: 85% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Iron Station: questions
What is the median household income in Iron Station?
$77,083 (±$28,351) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Iron Station?
16.7%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Iron Station?
28 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Iron Station work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charlotte (27%, 25 mi), Gastonia (6%, 14 mi), Lincolnton (5%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Iron Station without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Iron Station, from the people who make the trip.
More of Iron Station
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.