65,936 people (2024 Census estimate, +14.3% since 2020)
3,296 square miles of land · 20 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
28 active community water systems list Iron County in the area they serve, reporting 59,192 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CEDAR CITY WATERWORKS groundwater (surface-influenced) · local government · UTAH11002 | 39,670 served |
| ENOCH CITY WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · UTAH11004 | 6,500 served |
| CEDAR VALLEY WATER CONSERVANCY groundwater · local government · UTAH11085 | 3,995 served |
| PAROWAN CITY WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · UTAH11010 | 3,000 served |
| BRIAN HEAD TOWN WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · UTAH11001 | 1,038 served |
| MID VALLEY ESTATES groundwater · private · UTAH11015 | 753 served |
| PARAGONAH TOWN WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · UTAH11014 | 600 served |
| KANARRAVILLE TOWN WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · UTAH11006 | 452 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 144 people were held in Iron County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 372 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 121.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
1 school district has its office in Iron County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $132.6 million — $110.1 million to run schools, about $8,643 per student, plus $18.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $44.3 million local (mostly property tax), $80.5 million state, $14.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $45.9 million.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Iron County about $30.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
69 bridges in Iron County: 8 in good condition, 60 fair, and 1 poor (1.4%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| NFSR 30095 over DUCK CREEK · built 1973 | 50 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $36.5 million of work in Iron County in fiscal 2025, about $637 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Utah are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Iron County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Iron County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Beaver County (31 mi) · Washington County (46 mi) · Piute County (71 mi) · Millard County (73 mi) · Lincoln County, NV (87 mi) · Kane County (92 mi).