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Iron Station, NC
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Iron Station is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 825 people and two associated neighborhoods, Iron Station is the 424th largest community in North Carolina.

A relatively large number of people in Iron Station telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.27% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Iron Station has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Iron Station has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Iron Station than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Iron Station may be for you.

Iron Station is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

The population of Iron Station has a very low overall level of education: only 8.29% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Iron Station in 2018 was $23,428, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,712 for a family of four.

Iron Station is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Iron Station home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Iron Station residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Iron Station include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Iron Station is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.


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