Overall, Iola’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Iola has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Iola a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Iola is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Iola, the average commute to work is 34.60 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Iola doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Iola are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.04% of adults in Iola have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Iola in 2022 was $27,514, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,056 for a family of four. However, Iola contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Iola is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Iola home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Iola residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Iola also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.06% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Iola include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Iola is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
