Pella is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Pella enrolled in college, Pella has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 14.80 minutes getting to work every day.
Pella is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Pella ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Pella, 47.82% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.
The per capita income in Pella in 2022 was $42,262, which is wealthy relative to Iowa, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $169,048 for a family of four. However, Pella contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Pella home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pella residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Pella include Dutch, German, Irish, English, and European.
The most common language spoken in Pella is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Serbo-Croatian.
