The population of Iron county is estimated at 49,796. In 2017 there were 920 births and 294 deaths in Iron county. Iron county has 6,778 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 2,789 that are owned free and clear and 5,455 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Iron County filed 18,950 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.5% of all Utah filings and 0.013% of the entire nation. Iron had a combined total federal tax liability of $106,402,000 on earned income of $880,196,000. Other notable statistics from Iron County were 640 unemployment claims which collected a total of $2,630,000 and 4,570 charitable contributions valued at $38,482,000. 4,740 filings from Iron County paid a combined total of $8,922,000 in property taxes and 4,060 filings paid $28,527,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Iron county had 114 religious congregations with an estimated 35,770 members.
28.7% of the Iron population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 7.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 12% of Iron County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents a decrease from the 2012 election by 6,971 votes.
At $48,168 the median income is 70.4% of the Utah average. An estimated 931 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Iron, the equivalant of around 4.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.3%.

Top 15 Industries in Iron County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
1,892	Retail trade
1,641	Health care and social assistance
1,475	Accommodation and food services
1,273	Manufacturing
1,140	Food services and drinking places
649	Ambulatory health care services
642	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
533	Limited-service restaurants
476	Full-service restaurants
425	Professional, scientific, and technical services
415	Arts, entertainment, and recreation
412	Amusement, gambling, and recreation industries
412	Other amusement and recreation industries
398	Finance and insurance
392	Plastics and rubber products manufacturing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.61% in Iron County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 84721 and 84720).

In 2018 13.32% of listings in Iron County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 84720 and 84721) dropped their price.

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