Iola’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.60 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small city, Iola does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
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.
