Iron, Missouri
Iron County is a certified Work Ready Community that is actively engaged in maintaining their status.
Showing: Jan 1, 2012 to Feb 28, 2025
Goals updated only for participating counties
Status History:
Certified: May 2016
Maintained 1: Jan 2025
Hover over the chart to see how they received their points.
Progress Towards Goals
Iron is actively engaged in maintaining their status as a Work Ready Community. To do so, they must earn 5 points that prove their ongoing commitment to developing a thriving economy for employers and employees.
Traditional goals 3 Points
Maximum of 4 points possible
Current Goal - 1 points
Emerging Goal - 1 points
Transitioning Goal - 1 points
Optional goals 0 Points
Maximum of 3 points possible
Iron County in the News
ACT WorkKeys National Career Readiness Certificate [NCRC]
Workforce | Total NCRC |
Bronze NCRC |
Silver NCRC |
Gold NCRC |
Platinum NCRC |
NCRC Plus |
|
Emerging | High School | 257 | 83 | 95 | 58 | 21 | 0 |
College | 71 | 5 | 29 | 32 | 5 | + | |
Current | Private | 61 | 13 | 31 | 14 | + | + |
Public | 20 | 11 | 7 | + | 0 | + | |
Transitioning | Adult Education | + | 0 | + | + | 0 | 0 |
Unemployed | 149 | 44 | 72 | 29 | + | 14 | |
Recent Veteran | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Workforce category not identified | + | 0 | 0 | + | 0 | 0 | |
Totals | 561 | 156 | 235 | 137 | 33 | 17 |
Workforce | Total NCRC |
||||||
Emerging | High School | 257 | 83 | 95 | 58 | 21 | 0 |
College | 71 | 5 | 29 | 32 | 5 | + | |
Current | Private | 61 | 13 | 31 | 14 | + | + |
Public | 20 | 11 | 7 | + | 0 | + | |
Transitioning | Adult Education | + | 0 | + | + | 0 | 0 |
Unemployed | 149 | 44 | 72 | 29 | + | 14 | |
Recent Veteran | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Workforce category not identified | + | 0 | 0 | + | 0 | 0 | |
Totals | 561 | 156 | 235 | 137 | 33 | 17 |
The table above is a detailed breakdown of the same ACT WorkKeys NCRC data presented in the upper right box on this page and represents ACT WorkKeys NCRCs earned or improved throughout the community. All ACT WorkKeys NCRC data is updated monthly.
+ Value less than 4
ACT WorkKeys NCRCs Earned
Showing: Jan 1, 2012 to Feb 28, 2025
Workforce | Goals | Actual NCRC |
---|---|---|
✓ Emerging | 143 | 329 |
✓
Current |
26 | 83 |
✓ Transitioning | 116 | 165 |
Workforce category not identified | + | 1 |
Workforce | Total |
---|---|
Total Employers | 35 |
Improved ACT NCRC
To/From | Bronze | Silver | Gold | Platinum |
---|---|---|---|---|
Not Earned | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bronze | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Silver | 0 | 0 | ||
Gold | 0 |
Employers in Iron County recognize or recommend the ACT WorkKeys NCRC
- The Baptist Home
- Mers Goodwll
Scaggs Farms
- Iron County Assessor
Iron County Publications LLD dba The
Mountain Echo- Amanda Shipman Agency
- Buckley Accounting & Financial Services
- Plain & Fancy B & B LLC
Law Offices of Brian Parker
Iron County Prosecutor's Office
- Iron County Sheriff's Office
- Shepherd Mountain Inn
- Thee Abbey Kitchen
- Arcadia Academy Bed & Breakfast
- Porter's Ice Cream Parlor
- Arcadia Valley R-II School District
- Iron County Jail
- Iron County Hospital District D/B/A Iron
County Medical Caenter - First State Community Bank
- South Iron Schools
- Ozark Valleys Community Services Inc.
- Iron County Circuit Court
- Southeast Missouri Behavioral Health
- Piedmont Plumbing LLC
Iron County C-4 School District
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